A Message from the Resident Genealogist
A lot has happened since. Twenty years ago nearly all the information you needed to carry out family history research was unindexed on paper or microfilm and the aim of the site was to help people to find it. Now nearly all the key records are online and most town and villages have web pages that contain at least some local history. As a result the way the site is used has changed. I get far fewer beginner queries - and far more from historians working on specials projects - and also many requests for higher resolution pictures.
A review of the situation shows that the site contains much useful reference material which needs to continue to be available online. In addition there is a queue of similar information waiting to go online if I can find time allows. As a result I have decided to stop providing what amounts to a free help service for beginners.
I have set the following priorities for 2019:
While I will still respond to serious Ask Chris questions - for instance from historians writing books - I will no longer consider routine family history queries which add little to the site or where the questioner could find the answer online themselves.
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