Grow your own family tree
Alan Stewart
Published by Penguin, 2008
In this clear and easy-to-read guide Alan Stewart, one of Britain’s most renowned voices on family history, details what you need to trace your roots. Offering a concise and comprehensive summary of how to locate and use a range of records, there’s information from births to burials, including how to access census records, free online databases and even military information. It also includes many case studies and real-life examples showing vividly how others have traced their family stories, along with a plethora of helpful timelines, tips and pictures.
The Silver Surfers’ Colour Guide to the Internet
Helen Brookes
Published by Foulsham, 2006
Over 50s are the fastest growing group of internet users. A sweeping statement as the majority of in my primers will have internet experience from their working lives and probably won’t therefore be counted in that ‘novice’ group. However, as this is a guide for complete beginners it might make a good gift for elderly parents or neighbours starting to use the internet for the first time.
