This book deals with specific brickwalls and potential solutions, for instance, how to find BMD marriages and different census solutions. This also includes finding, using, and what to expect from parish records and newspaper archives, along with other resources.
But there's more to this book than brickwall solutions, the author also takes us through techniques such as cluster genealogy and gives us an introduction to topics such as DNA genealogy and cost-benefits analysis for research.
As well as providing all this information, the author effortlessly inserts many snippets of UK history into the text. These help us understand how and why certain things happened and developed over time. I was particularly interested in the development of voting rights. These historical facts also help us understand more about why records exist and what our ancestors were going through and may have experienced during these times.
There are also many useful Internet resources throughout the book as well as recommendations of other books that focus on topics raised within this book.
This book is definitely for beginners, such as myself, but I think that more advanced genealogists may find the book useful as a way of getting back to basics and perhaps looking at their brickwalls from a different angle. It's definitely a book I'd recommend and am thankful for the interesting read.
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