About

A Family Tree for Me is a genealogy / family history research company, with a diverse range of offerings to our various target markets. Our primary aim is to provide our clients with a cost-effective professional, personalised genealogical – family history research service.

 Right from the start, as part of our high quality personalised service to our clients, we will endeavour to create a unique proposal together which will fulfil the specific aims and objectives of their genealogical research.

We are a committed company whose other main aim is to bring genealogy into the classroom for all key stages of education here in the United Kingdom. We hope this will bring families together giving a sense of shared discovery and heritage and support the celebration of diversity in schools.

The inspirational idea behind starting this business came one day while sitting in the library café at Sheffield Hallam University, where instead of working on my dissertation, I was working on a piece of family history research for a friend and neighbour. I was approached by several students during the course of the day asking what I was doing. When I explained and the challenge and methodology behind what I was doing, they became as engrossed in seeing the results as I was in doing the actual research. The concept of starting a genealogy business came from remarks by several of the students that were part of the captive audience, (germinating a seed which had been planted many years previously), who said that I should seriously think about doing genealogy as a business.

The business concept came from my experience of researching my own family history and was again confirmed at university. My own investigative research resulted in difficulties trying to distinguish or uncover the professional researcher from the hobby researcher in the field of genealogy and family history research.  There seemed to be great inconsistency in the research being offered by these two distinct groups of researchers and the charges that they were making for their research services.

In carefully evaluating the issues that have been mentioned above and many others that had been unearthed along the way, I felt that I could compete by offering a clearer and more professional research service.