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Researching your English and Welsh Ancestry

Genealogy Fair

Join Kirsty Gray to begin unravelling the challenges of researching in England and Wales.

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About this event

From the comfort of your home in Canada, trying to uncover your roots on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean (whether in England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales) can be an extremely challenging task. However, it is far from impossible with a plethora of information available online from books to databases, transcriptions to images, photographs and other (numerous) online sources.

This lecture will provide individual case studies to highlight what is available online and offline, hands-on tips and details of how offline material might be accessed from afar to research your English and Welsh ancestry.

Audience Level: Beginner/ Intermediate

About Kirsty Gray

Kirsty started her family history really young (aged around 7) and is now one of the UK's leading genealogists and is a People Finder and Heir Tracer running her own company, Family Wise Limited since 2012. She is a family and local historian with two one-place studies in Devon (Luffincott and Tetcott) and a worldwide surname study on the Sillifant surname.

Kirsty is an innovator in the field of genealogy. She is a founder member and Chair of The Surname Society and of the Society for One-Place Studies as well as Show Director for THE Genealogy Show. She is also a member of various societies including Devon Family History Society, Hampshire Genealogical Society and West Middlesex Family History Society and has frequently been involved with the Ontario Ancestors (previously Ontario Genealogical Society) conference, even co-chairing two of their conferences.

Kirsty has featured on various TV and radio shows with highlights being her appearance on Qui-Etes Vous? (Who Do You Think You Are?) in Canada and BBC1’s Family Finders in the UK.

As well as all this, Kirsty is an author and lecturer in the geneasphere (www.kirstygray.co.uk) and also in various business circles.

You can find her online at:

Twitter: @TheKirstyGray 

Facebook: www.facebook.com/the.kirsty.gray

Family Wise: www.family-wise.co.uk and @ThePeopletracer on Twitter

Email: kirsty@family-wise.co.uk

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