DISCOVER The VALUE OF MANORIAL RECORDS
I’d just had my 22nd birthday when my faTher gave me The best piece of family history advice he would ever impart. ‘We mustn’t be content with just a name and a date. That’s not sufficient. We must find out as much as we can about These people.’ The two of us were about to realise our long-held ambition to research his paternal ancestry, and for The rest of his life, and mine, that advice is exactly The path we followed – but we never dreamed what a journey of discovery it would turn out to be.