Just moved your post into general genealogy so that it gets more attention.
If it was the programme with Freddie Flintoff and Jamie Redknapp, both of these would have taken a DNA test, I believe I heard Ancestry mentioned, this has the largest database for matching an individual with others so a large number of family relatives would have been listed as having matching DNA. These would then need to be investigated and a probable family tree created, researched forward from a common ancestor, until living relatives were traced. It's a variation on the document based research that we have always advocated, and which needs to back up any DNA results.
If this isn't what you need, sorry but please ask again.
Thinking about it, I'm now suspecting that you mean the earlier ancestors. Newspapers are always very useful - join the Lancashire Library, Bow Lane, Preston (online is fine) and with your library card number you can access their ditigal newspaper archive, which is online up to 1900.
Just moved your post into
Just moved your post into general genealogy so that it gets more attention.
If it was the programme with Freddie Flintoff and Jamie Redknapp, both of these would have taken a DNA test, I believe I heard Ancestry mentioned, this has the largest database for matching an individual with others so a large number of family relatives would have been listed as having matching DNA. These would then need to be investigated and a probable family tree created, researched forward from a common ancestor, until living relatives were traced. It's a variation on the document based research that we have always advocated, and which needs to back up any DNA results.
If this isn't what you need, sorry but please ask again.
Thinking about it, I'm now suspecting that you mean the earlier ancestors. Newspapers are always very useful - join the Lancashire Library, Bow Lane, Preston (online is fine) and with your library card number you can access their ditigal newspaper archive, which is online up to 1900.
Court records etc. are also very useful, even the Old Bailey has their records online. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
I'm sure for many of their sources there would have been money thrown at them for subscriptions.
thank you for your reply.
thank you for your reply.