Nick Thorne

Use Old Trade Directories To Build Your Family History

I've used old trade directories before, when I was tracing my tradesmen ancestors down in the City of Plymouth in Devon, England. At that time I'd found one enterprising forebear, of mine, who had been a Victualler and Brass founder on the 1861 census emp... Read >

Kill Two Birds With A Fantastic Press Release

By writing a press release and distributing it via a particular type of website you could kill two birds with one stone. What do I mean by this advice? Well a killer tip, for bringing your product or service to the market's notice, is to use the services ... Read >

Help Me To Get Back Before 1837 In English & Welsh Genealogy

A great many people who are researching their forebears from the British Isles, discover that there is a massive amount of family history information on the internet for the years going back as far as 1837 in England & Wales. Then, as I pointed out before... Read >

Give A Bold Gurantee For Your Info Product

I've been trading information products on the net for some time and I would argue that, in the current downturn in the economy, a cast-iron guarantee is even more essential to obtaining and keeping customer's business than ever before. The current worl... Read >

The Secret to Recession Proof Your Business

Today's new economy, with is onslaught of depressing economic news, is making it hard for business owners to make those daily sales or gather leads. So how on earth should we make our business recession proof under these circumstances? With the huge up... Read >

How to Ensure Your Business Survives in The Economic Downturn

How do we ensure our business doesn't fail in these tough economic climes? The simple answer is we must make more sales! But many business owners think that this means chasing after more and more new customers. That's a fine objective, but it is oh so ha... Read >

How to Use Headlines to Sell Your Product

"For Internet Marketers Who Are Almost (But Not Quite) Satisfied With The Performance Of Their Website And Can't Figure Out What They Are Doing Wrong." Would You Like To Learn The Secrets of How To Make Your Visitors Take Action? As an information M... Read >

Family History and Nonconformist Burials

Family History investigations of ancestor's lives are more than likely to bring us into contact with death or burial records in one form or another. What happens, however, if we find that our forebears were not C of E (the established church in England an... Read >

Clandestine and Fleet Marriages in a Family Tree

Fleet and other clandestine marriages All right.. so what are they, you may cry? The response, that I'd give, is that 'Clandestine' marriages were wedding ceremonies which most likely had an element of secrecy connected to them. Quite a number of... Read >

Help Me With My Family Tree

There are occasions when someone will ask me to carry out family history research."Can you help me with my family tree?" they ask. "I've found one or two names of ancestors and plugged them into my tree" The problem that I have with this way of looking at... Read >

Family tree research questions about the UK census

The UK censuses can baffle people beginning family history, when they first encounter them. You go on to a commercial site and pay to download the image of your long lost ancestors and you are presented with an official form covered in sometimes difficult... Read >

Family History Stumbling Blocks with the English Parish Records

Sometimes our research can become bogged down as we work on our family history. Not the least of which is in the area of Parish Records. Some time back, when I was starting out on this quest to find my ancestors, I was introduced to this list of twelve st... Read >

Common Problems in Family History Research.

There have been times, when I have embarked on family history research, that I will admit that I've just been too narrow in my thinking. I guess that I have concentrated too much on details that I believed to be correct about my ancestor. The sort of thin... Read >

Family Research - Bolster Your Research With This Special Technique

As my search for ancestors in my family tree has progressed, along the way I have been helped by distant "cousins" who are researching the same or collateral lines of my family. Their input has boosted my research and sent me much further forward in the q... Read >

Family Search and Ancestor Research

For some time, now, I've worked away at my family search project to populate my family tree with ancestors. I would have to say that the websites I generally have used the most include Ancestry, owned by the Generations Network; The Genealogist.co.uk; Gen... Read >