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Folk Finders Family History

Research in affordable stages, attractive presentation albums, family tree charts, training, books, photo restoration, enlargement, framing & other gifts.

NOTE - OPENING HOURS ARE INDICATIVE AND CAN VARY AS WE MAY BE OUT RESEARCHING OR AT GENEALOGY EVENTS We operate both as a shop selling genealogy related goods and also offer genealogy research services. Our premises are wheelchair accessible via ramps and has ground floor toilet facilities (note - the toilet room itself is not large enough for wheelchair entry)
We can research your family history in affordable stages, producing attractive and informative presentation albums containing a family tree chart, timelines of your ancestors and the records such as births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, burials and censuses etc that prove the information found. We can also help you conduct your own research or help you out when you get stuck at a brick wall in your family tree. We supply Ancestry DNA tests, DNA packages including research, expert analysis and tuition on how to make sense of the thousands of matches to other people that have taken the Ancestry DNA test (over 20 million!). We supply our own designs of pre-printed family tree charts in attractive tubes for your to fill in with your own information. We can also take the information from your own family tree stored on any of the commercial family tree websites or computer packages from GEDCOM files to produce bespoke charts with photographs. We also offer digital photo restoration, enlargement and framing services up to A1 size. We sell new and second hand books, folders, keepsake boxes, certificate pockets etc. We offer gift vouchers of any value towards our goods or research services & other genealogy related gifts.

17/12/2025

Looking for a last minute Christmas present? We have Ancestry DNA kits in stock for £80 - or our DNA package which includes the kit, set up of your Ancestry account and tree and a 2 hour DNA results analysis session for £150

15/11/2025

We are closed for a week whilst we visit Whitby - some research to do, and lots of exploring!

10/11/2025

Are we dog friendly? Definitely - always happy for clients to bring their dog along! 🐕🐶🐩

26/08/2025

Downloaded 13 death certificates today - so glad it's only £3 for an instant digital image! Fascinating information regarding cases of death to add to the family tree - get in touch if you would like help with death certificates!

06/06/2025

Today is the 6th June - and in 1841 a census was taken. What were your ancestors up to on this day 184 years ago? My ancestors were all over the country but my 4x-great grandparents John Watson and Mary were close-by in Ramsgill near Pateley Bridge (only 4.5 miles from our shop), John was the village carpenter.
Note: the 1841 census is different to later censuses, it doesn't give as much information and ages were often rounded so not accurate.

04/06/2025

Busy researching in Whitby - plenty of seafaring ancestors to be found!

21/04/2025

Traditional family tree layouts can be overwhelming and take a lot of designing and printing – we use FamilyTreeMaker software to print a list rather than a tree with just born and died information before going for a big tree print. This is a quick way of seeing a draft of the generations – here is an example of the Whitfield / Metcalfe family tree of Middlesmoor in Nidderdale

18/04/2025

On the 8th May this year is the 80th anniversary of VE Day – here is my photograph of the bittersweet celebrations back in 1945 in Esholt village near Guiseley in West Yorkshire (where my parents were born) after the 6 long years of World War 2 .
There was a street party and a fancy dress competition for the children – but 6 lads from the village had been killed, including my grandma’s cousin - terrible times!
Many members of my family are on this photograph - it has been scanned and uploaded to ancestry.co.uk and tagged, linked and added to each of my relatives timelines.

25/03/2025

We are in Scarborough researching Thomas Jarvis who lived at "the Towers", he was a wealthy brewer and the patron of victorian oil painter John Atkinson Grimshaw whose paintings are currently on show at Scarborough Art Gallery, he painted local scenes including "the Burning of the Spa"

24/03/2025

A few years ago we visited the World War 2 Bomber Command Memorial in London to pay our respects to 3 men we had been researching. Recently we researched another young man who died (aged 22) - another of the 55,573 commemorated there

21/03/2025

My lovely clients sometimes buy me treats from one of our lovely local shops - this week I've had choccies from the sweetshop - and broccoli from the Spar!

17/03/2025

Happy St Patrick's Day! Ancestry DNA can help to prove your Irish roots - see chart below - our client inherited different amounts of irish DNA from both his parents ...

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Hamilton House, Hamilton Terrace, High Street
Pateley Bridge
HG35LU

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