Given away as a baby, my father never knew who his father was, and knew little about his mother’s family. I had a DNA test to try and learn more, and spent some time inexpertly trying to build a tree myself, to little effect. I then came across Lorraine’s website and decided to ‘give her a go’ and what a revelation it’s been. I have been amazed at how much she has discovered in a short time. She clearly knows how to efficiently access information unknown to me. She has discovered fascinating stories of my grandmother’s family and identified my grandfather and pieced together the story of how my father came to be born. This has been fascinating and comforting for my elderly father who I think felt slightly ‘unanchored’ all his life by not knowing his own backstory. My one regret? Not turning to Lorraine sooner: I wasted a lot of my time getting nowhere!

David E, Dumfries

I would like to thank you Lorraine for all your help with my exceedingly difficult family history research. I had hit a brick wall and you have now given me new leads to follow. It is so nice to work with someone who is friendly, courteous, so very approachable, and who has a real enthusiasm for what they are doing. I have also really appreciated that I get a quick response to any query I may have and am looking forward to continuing to work with you on the next steps with my family history. Many thanks, Lorraine.

Brenda S., New Zealand

I ‘met’ Lorraine via a videoconference run by the Really Useful Family History Show.  Thank you for all your work on my enquiry about my father’s compassionate leave. I thought it very well put together, very thorough, and easy to follow online and would be equally good (perhaps even better) printed out. Really good to have photos of all the relevant document pages showing where the extracts you used, had been taken from.  You responded to my emails quickly, said when you were going to TNA, reported on the visit within a day or two (perhaps even hours, actually!)

Anne G., Suffolk