Do you have ancestors from England or Wales? Learn how to trace your roots this Wednesday.
With increased digitization of genealogical records in England and Wales, documents relating to your ancestors are far more readily available but how are the records structured? Where are they located? And what information can be gleaned from these primary sources? Taking you through the basics by examining record groups including censuses, civil registration, parish registers and probate, Kirsty Gray highlights the online and offline resources available to today’s genealogist researching in the last four centuries in England and Wales. Join us and Kirsty Gray for the live webinar Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 2pm Eastern U.S. Register today to reserve your virtual seat. *Registration is free but space is limited to the first 1,000 people to join that day.* Before joining, please visit www.java.com to ensure you have the latest version of Java which our webinar software requires. 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Webinar Subscribers <http://legacy.familytreewebinars.com/memberships-c11.php> have unlimited access to all webinar recordings for the duration of their membership. *About the presenter* [image: KirstyGray-144x144] <http://news.legacyfamilytree.com/.a/6a00d8341d219b53ef01b8d15b5b78970c-pi>Kirsty is a professional genealogist and Heir Hunter who runs her own research companyFamily Wise Limited <http://www.family-wise.co.uk/>. As a freelance author, she has published articles in family, local and social history magazines and handbooks across the globe. She has been researching the story of her paternal West Country family for many years and, having realised in the late 1990s that her eccentric hobby was called a surname study, co-founded The Surname Society (registering the Sillifant surname) in 2014 to meet the needs of surname studiers in the 21st century. In 2011, Kirsty took over from Penny Christensen as Director of English Studies for the National Institute for Genealogical Studies, updating previous courses and expanding the provision for online genealogical research courses about English records. Having published Tracing Your West Country Ancestors in 2013, Kirsty is now working on Tracing Your Industrial Ancestors with Pen and Sword Books and is a founder member and was initially Chair (now Secretary) of the Society for One-Place Studies, an international society for family and local historians. Although a relative youngster in the field of genealogy, Kirsty has been involved in family history for almost two decades and has lectured on various stages from local to international. 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