Family Trees
Research plans built around your branch, question, or brick wall
Warm, careful genealogy research
Discover the stories that shaped your family.
Held Histories helps you trace people, places, and relationships with empathy, clarity, and respect for the emotional weight family history can carry.
Narrative Reports
Readable stories alongside timelines, records, and source notes
Respect First
Privacy, consent, and emotional intelligence are part of the work
What this work feels like
Research with a quiet, human centre.
- Evidence-led research and clear reporting
- Sensitive handling of unexpected discoveries
- Support for archive, certificate, and DNA-led projects
“Careful enough for delicate questions, rigorous enough for serious research.”
Short Introduction
Warm guidance for families looking for truth, context, and connection.
Gentle, evidence-led genealogy research for families who want clarity, context, and a stronger connection to the people who came before them.
Services Snapshot
Tailored support for the questions families actually ask.
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Family Tree Research
Structured research into a direct line, branch, or unresolved family question.
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Narrative Family Histories
A beautifully written account that turns records into a readable, meaningful family story.
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Newspaper & Archive Research
Targeted research into newspapers, local archives, directories, and specialist collections.
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DNA-Informed Genealogy
Research that combines documentary records with DNA clues to strengthen or test hypotheses.
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Record Lookups
A focused search for a certificate, census entry, parish record, probate item, or other individual document.
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Bespoke Projects
Flexible research tailored around your family, question, deadline, or presentation needs.
Why Choose Me
Clarity, ethics, and emotional intelligence are built into the process.
A calm, human approach that keeps families informed without drowning them in jargon.
Clear explanations of what the records can prove, suggest, or leave unresolved.
Careful handling of sensitive discoveries, including misattributed parentage, criminal records, and family estrangement.
Practical research planning that respects your time, budget, and boundaries.
Testimonials
Space for kind words and reflections from clients.
Testimonials can be added here later. For now, the space is designed to sit naturally within the visual rhythm of the site without pretending to have social proof that does not yet exist.
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Ready to begin?
Ready to begin your family history journey?
Start with a simple conversation about what you know, what you hope to learn, and how carefully you want the past to be handled.