Family History Services

Family History Services

If you are stuck on one ancestor or if you are looking to fill out your family tree, then I can help you with your Scottish family history.

I offer a personal and professional family history service to suit your needs and budget.

Family tree

Family Tree Packages

I offer family tree packages to suit your budget. These can be from basic family trees to more comprehensive illustrative and narrative family history reports. They can include mini biographies, local history or observations that can shed light on your ancestors’ lives.

The family tree packages make an ideal gift for the one you love.

A selection of family history books to help with family history by Unlock your past - genealogist and family historian
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It was a beautifully documented and bounded report with a family tree.

Solving a family history brick wall by unlock your past, genealogist and family historian

Solve A Family Mystery Or Break Through A Brick Wall

What happens when your research comes to a standstill? Or you want help to solve a family mystery? I can help you plan, organize or simply verify your research and suggest areas you can explore.

This can be done by email, zoom or telephone.

Your House History

Are you interested in the history of your house and its former occupants?  

Did they appear in the local news? 

What did they work as? 

Would you like to unlock the history of your home  – if yes, then press the button below

House history research by unlock your past, genealogist and family historian
Old family history documents from the archives

Retrieve a Document from an Archive

If you live abroad and want primary sources, I can obtain available copies of documents from local Scottish archive centres (travel costs will be incurred). Documents may include family papers, electoral registers, school records, court records or sasines to name a few.

Location Photography

I can take video or digital photographs of gravestones, churches and buildings in the places where your ancestors lived in Kinross-shire, Perthshire, Fife, Edinburgh or the Lothians (travel costs will be incurred).

Let me research your ancestral village and take photos or videos to show your family at a virtual family reunion.

Taking photos of your ancestral home by unlock your past, genealogist and family historian
Learn about Scottish genealogy and family history with Sarah at Unlock your past, genealogist and family historian

Tutoring/Coaching Courses/Workshops

I am a qualified teacher who can do one to one tuition, talks or workshops for groups on how to research your Scottish family.

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The book that Sarah compiled is so full of information and photos which can now be handed down for generations to cherish.

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