Genealogy online

The internet is such an amazing resource when it comes to researching family history. I can access huge numbers of records just with a click of the mouse – baptism records; census returns; birth, marriage and death registration details; wills etc. It makes tracing family trees relatively easy – at least for records from 1837 onwards (when registration began). It also means that it can be very easy to spend hours on the computer surfing genealogy sites! Once you’re into parish records though, the information on the internet becomes much more hit and miss and trips to the record office become necessary.