Janet's Ancestry Research

Janet’s Ancestry Research is a UK-based genealogy and local-history service led by Janet C. Karn, a professional librarian with more than 20 years of experience and additional qualifications in family and local history. The business helps clients uncover their family stories through tailored ancestry research, presenting findings in an organized portfolio with a printed family tree, relevant document facsimiles, a CD, and a GEDCOM file. Its research can reveal connections to people, places, occupations, and historical events, and may be commissioned as a personalized gift for occasions such as birthdays, weddings, or Christmas.

Services also include house-history research, tracing previous occupants, property origins, and neighborhood development, as well as transcription of historical records such as parish registers, wills, rentals, and deeds. Janet can provide talks and workshops on family-tree research and train library staff to assist the public with Ancestry and Findmypast. The service is designed for people who want to explore their heritage but lack the time, confidence, or specialist skills to research it themselves.