Tracing your Roots (2nd Editon of Meet Your Ancestors)

 

There are many guidebooks dedicated to tracing family history from which the novice genealogist can choose, but this one… is refreshingly different. Quite unlike the standard guidebook… this diary engages the ready and, by way of example, passes on valuable hints and tips for anyone starting out on the genealogy trail’.
Practical Family History

‘Diane Marelli takes a very different approach, providing a diary of how she delved into her father-in-law’s (and later her mother’s) family… Mrs Marelli is also frank in describing the frustrations of dead ends and the brick walls that researchers are all too familiar with, as well as the elation of finding an ancestor and the satisfaction of proving a hunch right… a very interesting and enjoyable new approach to family history’.
Family History Monthly

‘This book is written in a refreshing style not often found in family history books. It reveals the enthusiasm and passion that someone can acquire from family history research. Diane Marelli’s book cannot fail to instil in anyone the interest to pursue their family history. Hopefully her readers will produce their family histories in an equally interesting and enthusiastic manner’.
Robert Blatchford,
Editor of The Family and Local History Handbook

‘This is a warts-and-all documentary about the highs and lows of what turned out to be a maddening search for details about her husband’s ancestors, their lives and loves… Diane Marelli’s enthusiasm is boundless and her spirit tenacious. It’s touching the way she never gave up even when things went badly. She gives new family historians the benefit of her experience, the pitfalls and tons of timesaving advice. Her quest consumed her life for four years but the final result is a joy to read and an encouragement for all of us’.
Your Family Tree Magazine

‘Tracing your family tree can be both fascinating and rewarding, and for Diane Marelli it has probably changed her life forever… After four years’ research, in which she kept a detailed diary, she has now had her findings published… And it’s one of the best guides around for anyone starting to research their own family history…Her enthusiasm shies through this book and anyone who reads it and us similarly interested will be inspired to embark upon their own research’.
The Surrey Advertiser Group

‘This is a must in the search for our own roots’.
The Good Book Guide

‘I think you should be congratulated on producing such an interesting, informative and thoroughly readable work. It should become the standard ‘must have’ work for everyone starting out on researching their family history’.
Mrs S K Ashcroft – Surrey Archaeological Society