I've been tracing my family history for a while now and got stuck with the normal seaches, the further back you go the harder they are to read and often there are some name changes due to people registering using thier local accent which is misunderstood by the registrar, so I've started using AI to search as it can access anything thats in a public record and free to access, it can also tell you where to look for documents that haven't been transcribed or are in private collections, although you often have to pay for copies of records you want.
Because two of the family surnames are very localised, one hyper localised, I've been able to get back to before the Norman Conquest, by tracing who owned the land when, when it was transfered, was it mentioned in the Doomsday Book and things like that. I've got two other branches to trace, but it looks as though my ancestors have been here for a long time, a very long time, maybe even sinse the neolitic. Now I just need to get my ancient done and I'll know a lot more.
Its really interesting
