Create your family tree

The BBC's series Who Do You Think You Are? followed celebrities as they traced their family histories. Barbara Windsor discovered that she was a very distant relative of the painter John Constable and TV presenter David Dickinson's journey revealed that he'd been privately adopted by his mother's hairdresser.

Uncover the stories of your family tree. Make a start by writing down existing family members and then explore further using census records and local history books.

The internet is an amazing resource for genealogy, but with so much information available, it's often difficult to know where to look.

A great starting point is the BBC's guide to tracing your family history and the Government's family records website is a brilliant route in to census data.

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