Sometimes, only a professional can help put all the pieces together correctly. 
Peter Foden, Archivist, Paleographer, and Genealogist offers
the following services through Ancestrography.co.uk.

 

Endorsements

Endorsements from Ancestrography clients

I’ve just been gobsmacked by all this and cannot take it all in yet. It’s just amazing.... can’t thank you enough for the work you’re doing On tracing a family back from c1575 to c1400 using manorial records and charters

I cannot thank you enough for this amazing volume.  I am strangely moved, even though it is not my immediate family.  I cannot thank you enough for your efforts so far, both in research and in presentation of the results.

I have received your translation and was thrilled and pleased by the contents. Translation of 13th century legal record concerning an outlaw who might have been the inspiration behind the Robin Hood legend

Please convey my sincere thanks to your genealogist for a most remarkable job.  I find it most interesting. I would agree whole heartedly with the conclusions Two generations before parish registers

Wow please carry on! 

What a wonderful surprise! You have uncovered a veritable treasure trove and I am extremely grateful.

Thank you for the very interesting report of your findings so far. Neither of us had any inkling that one of our distant forebears might have been related to anyone of historical note. I know for certain that if you do establish a direct link then it will result in us both enjoying reading about the lives and times of the dramatis personae. On discovering a potential genealogical relationship with one of Charles the First's Regicides.

I am absolutely amazed at the amount of records for such early dates.  Your combined knowledge of genealogy, palaeography and manorial records took an early Virginia emigrant and his families back to the 1400s with solid documentation.  I have other "brick walls" for you to break.  Thank you for a job well-done!

Thank you very much for your invaluable help in deciphering this manuscript,
and your additional insight into the unusual references/metaphors. Having transcribed a nineteenth century futuristic fantasy by the artist Thomas Cole.

Thank you for your thorough, thorough reports...

Many thanks for this additional information. Previously they were just names and dates but having more background to them makes them much more real.

You did such a wonderful job... I do appreciate all that you do.

Thank you for your letters reporting your welcome and thorough investigation.

Thank you for dealing so quickly with my enquiry and for producing such an excellent first report. I am particularly pleased with the transcription of [the] will and your accompanying comments.

You have discovered good things!

Thanks so much for this, it was exactly what I wanted. Thanks for your help and patience with my questions!

Thanks very much for the translation. I’m well pleased. You wouldn't believe how difficult it is to find someone who is willing and capable to take on this kind of work. Having translated some Bawdy Court records for a local historian. 

Many thanks for your excellent report and findings... I am delighted at the result and take notice of your advice.
 

 











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