Discovering Your Ancestors

Have you been frustrated in trying to trace your family tree? Discover Your Past specialises in finding your British ancestors.
Family history research can be a time consuming and painstaking process made more difficult by the transposition or transformation of names before literacy was widespread. A name misspelled or mis-transcribed  can hold up further progress of your family tree until you have searched every possible spelling for your “missing” ancestors. This all takes up precious time, a commodity few of us have to spare.
The researcher at Discover Your Past has been conducting family history research for about a decade and  has encountered many of these problems first hand.Names such as Pincham becoming Binsham, Endicott changing to Enticott, Indicott and Endacote, Bayliss becomes Baylest, Bailey, Baillie. First names are no less likely to be altered, for example, Christina turning into Christmas, Jane being transcribed as James (very confusing because not only the name changes but, apparently, so has the sex of your ancestor). Not  all of your ancestors would have had their names mis-transcribed but a variant was used. Take Jamieson as an example, if you are illiterate it would be difficult to tell the enumerator, registrar or parish priest, that your name was spelt with an  ie  not Jameson. Throw in a regional dialect and your Jamieson ancestor could be phonetically spelled out thus, Jemison.
Discover Your Past has experience in dealing with these common problems and overcoming the obstacles which prevent you taking your family history further back.