Offers advice on discovering your family's history in the UK, explaining the best research techniques, how to log and collate your research. This book begins with the basics of starting to research, guiding you through each stage, from finding clues in photographs and naming patterns, to creating drop-line charts and drawing up a family tree.

Outlines the main skills, techniques and practices for the job of the researcher. An easy to follow guide to production research, it will help the new researcher to understand the possibilities to be considered when undertaking research and the kind of questions that need to be asked at each stage of the production process. Every project, whether it's a programme for television or radio or an article for publication is different and there is no one, correct answer to each situation.Based on the author's wealth of experience as a researcher on many and varied kinds of broadcast and...