Professional Family History

About Professional Family History

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Professional Family History offers family tree research and local family history research in Cambridgeshire, Essex and Suffolk to private clients and professional genealogists.

Whether you are looking for someone to trace your family tree as an anniversary or birthday gift or, want to find out more about your family history but lack the time or expertise, Professional Family History has a family tree package that can be customised to meet your requirements, depending on the number of surnames of interest, the depth of the research required and budget. All packages include all of the birth, marriage and death certificates located during the research into the client's direct ancestors.

For those who have been researching their own family history but have become well and truly stuck and would like some advice, or would just like a second opinion on what they have found so far, Professional Family History offers bespoke family history research that can be tailored to your individual needs.

Where research in Local Archives or Record Offices is required Professional Family History specialises in the Cambridgeshire, Essex and Suffolk area and offers research and advice in a number of subject areas.

Dr Karen Cummings DipGen is an accredited genealogist with qualifications in Genealogy and is therefore able to offer her clients the highest standard of genealogy research.

She is a Member of AGRA, the UK Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives. AGRA (ASGRA and APGI in Scotland and Ireland) is the only UK based professional body which carries out an assessment of future members’ quality of work and business strategy before approving membership. She is also a member of the US Association of Professional Genealogists (APG).

Dr Cummings studied with the IHGS (Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies) in Canterbury and has been awarded both the Higher Certificate in Genealogy (Distinction) and the Diploma in Genealogy (professional qualification).

Her areas of speciality include but are not limited to: GRO and local indexes of birth, marriage and death (BMD); BMD certificates; census records (1841-1911); parish registers; parish chest records; wills and probate records; school and education records; surnames; occupational records; quarter and petty session records; maps, tithe maps and enclosure maps; pre-1841 census-type lists and nonconformist records.