This lively and appealing book makes genealogy easy, exciting, sociable, inspiring and accessible to everyone. This fantastically useful guide refreshingly side-steps the uninspiring tasks of traditional genealogical research. Beginning with mapping the immediate family in clear, easy steps, it opens up the subject to every reader. Packed with useful information and a common-sense approach, it advises on everything from websites to war records, how to organise research and the joy of knitting it all together.