Family History Research

Family history research is the focus of my professional activity. I specialise in hunting down baptism records such as the one shown in the background of this page, and turning them, along with records of marriages and deaths, wills, marriage dispensations, military records and anything else pertinent to a family's history, into a precise, readable summary of an individual's genealogical origin.

For a family history researcher, every project is different. Our very nature as human beings means that all of us will have different geographical, historical, social and even economical "pasts". The search for your family history may take you - and me - to archives we'd never heard of in towns where you never imagined that you'd had ancestors. The trail may lead from one end of the Iberian peninsula to the other, or to Spain's Mediterranean islands and even to other countries - remember that as an Imperial power Spain attracted merchants and soldiers from elsewhere in Europe.

Unless you can trace some ancestors who belonged to royal, noble or gentry families, the late 1500s will probably be outer frontiers of your lengthy genealogical journey. Once you have traced some of your ancestors to the medieval era, know their names and can begin to envision how they lived, you will feel that you have truly travelled through time. It's a feeling that I've enjoyed through my personal research and that I hope to give my clients.