Today I was fortunate enough to get a whole day to spend doing my hobby - Geneaology. As many readers of my blog will know I am passionate about family history. So off to Olympia to see the “who do you think you are” exhibition. However I am also fustrated that the technology is quite slow to provide people with access to data to complete someone’s family research. We can all do dates and places back through our ancestors, but there is so much more than that. How did your family move around as the generations unfolded. Did the circumstances of the time force young families to migrate to the towns and cities or even further afield on one of the cheap migration tickets to Australia or America.

Now I have found a website that is really useful. Lots of sites offer research services, some offer CDs of data and records, others offer sofwtare, books, folders and storage boxes, but Ancestral Atlas offers keen genealogists not only the opportunity to earn a little money back from all their hard work, but also the ability to load up a gedcom file and see the map of all your families locations accross the ages.  A nice site, simple to use and well… the icing on the cake it can earn you money! At the moment a year’s subscription is only £20 - an absolute steel! get in their quick folks and find people who were born at the same time as your ancestros, maybe died in a tragic event or accident or perhaps a shared relative. www.ancestralatlas.com.