Family History Packages and bespoke investigation work
Unlock My Past provides a range of flexible service offerings to help customers tracing their family history. ‘Discovery Lite’ is a FREE initial review and on completion a report and estimate is provided to assess the likelihood of success. Services start at an entry level ‘Discovery Explorer’ Package and these build to a major research project, the ‘Discovery XXL’ version which can take up to 16 lines of a family’s history. Custom or bespoke investigations can also be undertaken as well as one name studies and the production of hand drawn or plotted family trees, family books and histories and detailed work in archives and libraries based on customer’s instructions. We are based in the South East of England and so can cover Kent, Sussex and Surrey as well as London records for customers. No one family is the same which makes genealogy so interesting and we work closely with our customers to tailor our research to their needs and to their budget.
Itemised Package Descriptions
Discovery Lite is a free service which reviews your ‘target person’ (the starting point for our research. It may be you, a parent or grandparent for example) to see whether we can ascertain if the name is identifiable in the records and how much information we can see from a first pass of the data we discover. We will then present a brief report back to you and provide a potential way (or ways) forward together with any costs and an estimate of what sort of work might be involved and how far we believe we may be able to research. No Certificates are provided for this service. A Certificate being a Birth, Marriage or Death Certificate or Census entry.
Discovery Explorer is a brief introduction to your family history. We spend an hour researching the records and discovering as much information as we can within the time and prepare a report, an outline tree, researcher notes, notes on potential future research avenues and options and recommendations. No Certificates are provided for this service. We concentrate on a single line (maternal or paternal as requested by the customer).
Discovery Foundations provides the beginnings of your family history journey. We spend 2 hours undertaking more ‘in-depth’ research than the ‘Discovery Explorer’ package (above). We prepare a report, an outline tree, researcher notes, notes on potential future research avenues and options and recommendations. No Certificates are provided for this service. We concentrate on a single line (maternal or paternal as requested by the customer).
Discovery S is our Standard Package and most popular service, it comprises 4 hours investigation and research and once again we prepare a report, an outline tree, researcher notes, notes on potential future research avenues and options and recommendations. One Certificate is provided as standard for this service. We may recommend that more certificates are purchased and we will advise this during our investigations. We concentrate on a single line (maternal or paternal as requested by the customer).
Discovery M is our Medium Package and expands the research to take in both maternal and paternal lines from the target person. It comprises 8 hours investigation and as before we prepare a report, an outline tree, researcher notes, notes on potential future research avenues and options and recommendations. Two Certificates are provided as standard for this service.
Discovery L is our Large Package it takes the 4 (paternal and maternal) grandparents lines and endeavours to take the family back as far as possible with 16 hours research. Reports and Trees are provided and four Certificates are provided as standard with this package.
Discovery XL is our Extra Large Service which expands research to 8 lines that will be the Great Grandparent lines and comprises of 32 hours of research together with the associated Reports and Trees. We provide 8 certificates as standard.
Discovery XXL – is our Extra, Extra Large Package which comprises 48 hours of research on the family tree and up to 16 lines (paternal and maternal) at the Great Great Grandparent level. We provide 16 certificates together with the standard reports, family tree and researcher notes.
NB We will not exceed our research brief without consultation and agreement.
