And well done on completing section four on the census record, I really hope that you've been able to find at least some of your ancestors, and hopefully managed to trace them back a further generation or two or even three. Now, it's quite probable that some of you may have come across some difficulties while searching the census. One of the most common problems when tracing ancestry is when the name is so common that many entries come up all of whom could be your ancestor, but you have no way of working out which one is the correct one. I cannot begin to tell you how many times I have met this problem in my career, and it's probably far more frustrating than when you can't find an entry tool. Don't worry too much yet if you've come up with problems like this. Towards the end of the course in Section six, I'll be having a look at some of the little tricks you can use when you are stuck at a junior logical brick wall.

In the meantime, the next section may also help in giving you another source to check your results against, get more information about your ancestors, families and also potentially take your ancestral lines back beyond the 19th century to the 18th century. And if you are lucky to the 17th and even 16th centuries, these are the parish registers, what are the main sources of genealogical information? I look forward to seeing you in the next section. Cheerio