What do the categories and specialisms mean?
Category: a principal area of genealogical work
We have four major groupings each subdivided to show the kind of work that you may be interested in:
Research
- Genetic
- Individuals/Families
- Heraldic
- Communities
- Buildings/Locations
- Probate/People tracing
Communication
- Writing
- Broadcasting
- Speaking
Education
- Mentoring/tutoring
- Seminars/Courses
Other Services
- Ancestral tourism and event organising
- Legal advisory/Expert witness
- Use of specialist software e.g. GIS
Specialism: a significant skill relating to a particular technique, language, time period, geographical area, set of archives or culture
For example:
- Palaeography – reading old writing and transcribing documents
- Polish – for records in that language
- Medieval – for the records and history of that period
- Cleveland – for studies in North Yorkshire
- Jewish – particularly dealing with international movement and migration