Services
Full Research Assignments, Targeted Archive
Look-Ups, Transcription, Translation,
Editorial Work, and Customised Gifts,
all undertaken on a pre-agreed hourly basis.
Detailed Genealogy & Family History Research
The procedure is carried out in 5 basic stages, which also apply to Local History, Theatre History, Literary, and Biographical Research (with adjustments made to the final report as appropriate) – an update will be provided for the client at the completion of each stage:
1) Analysis of existing material
(both for verification & to avoid duplication)
2) Development of a research strategy
3) Carrying through the research
4) Analysis of collected material
5) Written Report,* in printed or electronic form, as
preferred, to include:
a) full details of all records searched, whether
results were positive or negative
b) copies of all documentation collected
(certificates, digital images, etc.)
c) family tree chart(s) & illustrations
d) suggestions for future research
e) optional electronic database in gedcom
format, for import to home computer
genealogy programmes
* The Sample Report (on the Victorian stage-performer
Edward Richard Wright) has a mixed form, to illustrate
the variety of avenues open to research; the standard
genealogy format corresponds to those paragraphs
detailing birth, marriage & death events, census listings,
and wills, while alternate sections draw on newspaper
articles, playbills, posters, and other professional records,
to flesh out the subject's life story as well as his family
history.
Targeted Look-up Service
Archive Research & Document Copying
Record Finding (1841-1911 Census Listings, Civil
Registration Certificates, Parish Register
Entries, Court Rolls, etc.)
Digital Photography of Cemeteries/Gravestones
and Buildings in London & North West Kent
Palæography
Transcription & Translation of documents running from the Middle Ages to the Present (including Wills and Administrations, Title Deeds, Manorial Records, Ancient Petitions, etc.), in early English, French & Latin
* All Transcriptions are formatted to correspond line-by-
line with the original document for easy comparison;
those in Mediæval French & Latin include full expansion
of abbreviations, with the coherent literal Translation
for each transcribed line appearing directly underneath.
Charts & Summaries
Traditional Family Trees
Tailored Relationship Charts
Deed Calendars
Analytic Diagrams
(customised orders welcome)
Manuscript Editing & Proof-Reading
All prose forms undertaken:
Non-fiction, Fiction, and Play-scripts
Gifts for Special Occasions
Presentation Reports: A specially bound & illustrated
version of the Ancestral Report, printed on
quality parchment paper
Hand-Drawn Family Trees: Ink on parchment paper
– plain, bound, or framed, as preferred
Research Certificates: Tailored to suit Birthdays,
Anniversaries, Christmas, and other special events
– for a project to be directed by the recipient
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