About the Author

Gill Blanchard is an experienced family and local history researcher, teacher and lecturer. She has an academic background in history and has been conducting family, house and local history research on a full-time professional basis since 1992. She began her research career by working at Norfolk Record Office assisting the public with their genealogical and local history research, and she set up her own research company in 1997. Her most recent publications are Tracing Your East Anglian Ancestors and Tracing Your House History.