Expert Advises On How to Trace Family History ; with Tv Celebrities Taking It Up, Tracing Your Family History has Almost Become National Sport These Days. Sue Williams Asked Derbyshire County Council Local Studies Expert Ruth Gordon, Pictured Right, for Some Tips On How to Get Started.

Derby Evening Telegraph › December 09, 2008

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With TV celebrities taking it up, tracing your family history has almost become national sport these days. Sue Williams asked Derbyshire County Council local studies expert Ruth Gordon, pictured right, for some tips on how to get started.

If Stephen Fry, Jeremy Paxman and Nigella Lawson can do it, then there's no reason why you should not have a go. At what? Tracing your family tree, of course.

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Expert Advises On How to Trace Family History ; with Tv Celebrities Taking It Up, Tracing Your Family History has Almost Become National Sport These Days. Sue Williams Asked Derbyshire County Council Local Studies Expert Ruth Gordon, Pictured Right, for Some Tips On How to Get Started.

Whether you turn up a distant earl, an Australian convict or an Ebenezer Scrooge, it's fascinating stuff.

But it can also be hard work and, if you're not sure what ...

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