Are you looking for evidence that confirms or denies a family rumour? Perhaps you are not 100% sure where a relative was living or what their occupation was.
Sometimes a fairly straightforward search in newspaper archives can reveal what we are looking for, such as a case a while back when I was asked to find out if an ancestor was Chairman of a certain company or not. He was!
In my own family, my late father was convinced that we must have been related to the founder of Hartley’s Jam, Sir William Pickles Hartley. However, I can be perfectly sure that there is no connection post-1815.
“I now have a much clearer understanding of who I am and where I came from!”
Jane D Maidenhead