I have found relatives in Wiltshire from the late 1600s. Is there any way to find where they lived and what they did. The church books just show the baptisms and parents names.
Regards Ann
You need to look at a wider range of sources - such as property records, wills, manorial court records, parish chest material and anything else you can find relating to the places they were living. Anything that might mention your ancestors and what they were doing. But you would need to spend time in the archives for most of them.
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