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Stephen Thomas

Genealogist, Author and TV presenter.

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About Me 

I have been researching family trees for over 20 years now. I came to genealogy from an interest in English social history. The novels of Dickens were more of an introduction to family history to me than any particular prompting from within to find out more about my Welsh ancestry.

So it was that after studying English at Hull University and spending not a little time in the bar with the poet Philip Larkin that I ended up in Canterbury and learned my family history methodology at the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies.

It is hard to calculate but I would estimate that over the years I have investigated some 5000 family trees. The number of individuals is much much more difficult to guess at. Whether you require a people search or ancestry researched, there is little I have not encountered before.

At times I have been fortunate enough to be asked to appear on several television shows as a family history expert. The most notable being the BBC series Blood Ties and the most amusing the Gloria Hunniford Show where I was a guest with Lord Bath. That's me in the blue next to Lord Bath. 

The first series of Blood Ties went on air in February 2000 and 6 programmes ran to March 2000. Presented by Martha Kearney, the show was researched by me and I appeared regularly as the series' resident genealogist. Presented in a magazine format, several stories each week provided information on sources. I have just finished researching and presenting "Lost Royals", an hour long documentary  for Granada TV which will be shown worldwide in 2008.

I  also contribute articles to a number of magazines on the subject; last year I wrote guides to family tree research in Australia and New Zealand for Your Family Tree magazine. I have been writing a regular column for Practical Family History magazine since April 2006 and have written the cover feature  for Your Family Tree magazine, Britain's most popular, on Records of the Poor, Parish Chest material, Wills and Marriage Licences in 2007/8. Check out my Publications page.

I used to work for Achievements Ltd and Windsor Ancestry Research. They now charge around £450 for a round of research. I charge less than half that for more work. Look at my Research page.