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About Elizabeth Wilkins
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Elizabeth Wilkins is a Lancashire genealogist with seventeen years of experience, tracing family histories across the UK for a fixed price agreed before any work begins.
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Elizabeth Wilkins is a genealogist based in Lancashire with seventeen years of experience tracing family histories across the UK and, where the records allow, overseas. She works to fixed-price packages agreed before research starts, and delivers each family's story as a printed tree, a framed-ready poster or a hardcover book.
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Elizabeth Wilkins has spent seventeen years tracing family histories, and through Ancestry Search Services she now does so for clients across the United Kingdom and abroad. She works from original records: parish registers, civil registration, census returns, military and workhouse papers, and the local archives of Lancashire and the North West, where much of her work begins.
Her clients are usually people who have reached a dead end on their own, or who want a family history as a gift for a parent or grandparent. Every piece of work is a fixed-price package, agreed up front, so there are no hourly surprises: a researched five-generation tree, a six-generation poster ready for framing, or a hardcover family history book with timelines, photographs and the story of each line.
She writes regularly about records, Lancashire heritage and how professional research is done, and is available to comment on family history stories in the North West.
Fact sheet
Business
Ancestry Search Services
Owner
Elizabeth Wilkins, genealogist
Based
Lancashire, England
Experience
Seventeen years of family history research
Area covered
The whole of the United Kingdom, with particular depth in Lancashire and the North West. International lines where the records allow.
How far back
Typically to the 1700s and 1800s; up to nine generations where the records survive
How she works
Fixed-price packages, agreed before research begins. No hourly billing.
Packages
Bronze £295. Timescale: Approximately 2 to 4 weeks
Silver £425. Timescale: Approximately 4 to 8 weeks
Gold £995. Timescale: Approximately 3 to 4 months
What clients receive
Bronze: a researched family tree printed at A4. Silver: an archival-quality poster, up to six generations, ready for framing. Gold: a hardcover family history book with a seven-generation chart, timelines, family group sheets and period images.
Delivery
Posted within the UK. Ask about delivery overseas.
Elizabeth is available for interview, comment and reader or listener questions on any of these, by phone, email or in the studio. Each one links to a plain-English guide on the blog where there is one.
Finding the soldier in your family
How to trace a First or Second World War ancestor from a name and a photograph: service numbers, medal index cards, absent voters lists, war diaries, and what to do when the service record burned in 1940. Lancashire angle: the Accrington Pals.
Cotton mill families, workhouse records, parish registers before 1837, and what the 1921 census tells you about a Burnley, Blackburn or Preston household.
A family history book from Ancestry Search Services, open at one ancestor's timeline, his life set out from birth to death against the events of his time.
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