The Digital GenealogistThe Digital GenealogistFREE EVALUATION: By telephone or Zoom/Skype, this time will be used to discuss and agree your research requirements in more detail and potential costs.
A simple service to try and help you get past a specific brickwall.
£25 per hour
Subject to a 2 hour minimum charge.
A more in-depth review of your own information to check its validity, help fill in the gaps and set you back on the right track.
£25 per hour
Booked in advance in blocks of time, to suit your budget (minimum 4 hours).
A personalised service, chosen from a range of standard Fixed Price Research Packages.
For Fixed Price Packages please see table below.
A fully personalised service tailored specifically to what you want to know about your ancestors, using a wider range of records and contextual material.
For a Full Research Service, please see further details below.
BRONZE
Single surname study covering 4 generations up either the maternal or paternal line.
e.g. your father, his parents, his 2 paternal grandparents and his 2 paternal great-grandparents
7 people in direct line, plus names of their siblings for the three latest generations.
£250
SILVER
Double surname study covering 4 generations up both the maternal and paternal lines.
e.g. your father, his parents, his 4 grandparents and 4 great-grandparents following the paternal lines of his parents.
11 people in direct line, plus names of their siblings for the three latest generations.
£350
GOLD
Full 4 line/4 generation study
e.g. your father, his parents, his 4 grandparents and his 8 great-grandparents, up both maternal and paternal lines.
15 people in direct line, plus the names of their siblings for the three latest generations.
£500
The nature of the research will be guided by your specific interests. Do you have a family story or puzzle that you want to investigate? Perhaps you just want to know why your ancestors travelled and what they did for a living or to learn more about what their lives were like set against the social history of the time.
There are many types of records available, additional to the ones typically used in standard research, which can widen the scope, including:
The report can then be personalised, if you wish, with the inclusion of family photo’s etc. Each project will be different and so it can be difficult to estimate how long it will take but I am happy to do the work in stages, with an agreed budget for each stage.
Please contact me to arrange a FREE EVALUATION and quotation.
Access to standard genealogy websites which incur annual subscription costs are included. Typical records used for all assignments are births/baptisms, marriages, deaths/burials and censuses.
Pay-per-view sites such as ScotlandsPeople, which is as key source for research in Scotland, will be charged at cost. Copies of birth, marriage and death certificates will be obtained as digital versions where permissible or hard copies and also charged at cost. A suitable budget for the use of any such sources will be agreed before any costs are incurred.
If travel to a local Archive office or other record repository becomes necessary, this will be discussed and agreed in advance.
Digital (PDF) files of the research findings are provided upon completion and I retain the copyright on all reports. The format will depend on the Option chosen but typically for Brickwall and Family Tree Audits include:
For Fixed Price Packages, the report will include:
The scope of the Full Research Service is tailored to your requirements and the report will cover the same as for a Fixed Price Package, but additionally may include options such as:
Lead times for delivery depend on the level of service required and current availability but can usually be measured in weeks. If you have a particular deadline such as a family event, there may be some flexibility if discussed before work begins.