Researching your British Ancestors
Learn the basics of how to research ancestors from the United Kingdom. This lecture covers civil registration, census records, wills, parish chest records, military records, court records, tax lists, immigration and emigration, federal records from The National Archives, and resources available locally at county record centers and local history libraries.
Melissa is a board-certified genealogist with 13 years of experience as a practicing professional genealogical researcher. Her genealogy practice, based in New Jersey and New York City, specializes in family history research on New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, British, Irish, Italian, and Eastern European families, as well as forensic genealogy; using DNA to solve difficult genealogical problems; unknown parentage; genealogical writing, editing, and publishing; and genealogical education. Melissa has conducted forensic genealogy research for estate, insurance, adoption, title, criminal, trust, death penalty, unclaimed property and mineral rights cases.
Melissa’s work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, and Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey. Melissa has previously served as editor and a columnist for NGS Monthly. She served as reviews editor for the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly (APGQ) for eleven years.
Melissa is a well-respected genealogical educator. She has designed genealogical courses on a variety of topics for; Boston University, the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, the Institute for Genealogy and Historical Research (University of Georgia-Athens), the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh, New Jersey Family History Institute. She is Program Director for Boston University’s Genealogy Studies program and serves as a Mentor for the ProGen Study Group