Discover how to trace your family tree – by joining our live webchat this Wednesday

16/06/2008

Exploring your family history is a hobby more and more people are discovering - tracing their family tree and learning more about their ancestors. The success of celebrity-driven television shows like 'Who Do You Think You Are' coupled with new records becoming available online has helped drive interest to record levels.

Whether you want to discover if you have any famous ancestors, skeletons in the closet or just want to find out about your heritage and family roots, there are lots of resources available to help, such as Birth, Marriage and Death records, Census data, Military and Passenger Records, and if you'd like help researching your family tree, then help is at hand in our live webchat this Wednesday with two experts from findmypast.com, a leading family history website for researching your British ancestors.

Elaine Collins is former editor of ‘Ancestors’ magazine and author of the ‘Good Web Guide to Genealogy’, whilst Steve Rigden is findmypast.com's Head of Research and has been a professional genealogist for more than twenty years.

Whether you’re totally new to this hobby or just need a little expert help Steve and Elaine are here to answer your questions and pass on some top tips.

To take part, send in your questions now or just sit and watch when we go live at 7pm on June 18th. The experts will do their best to answer as many questions as they can.

Just go to the link below.