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Christopher Goodwin, Proprietor
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Chris read History at Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating in 1984. The
following year he began at Windsor Ancestry Research as a research consultant,
helping set up the business, overseeing the research and co-ordinating a growing
network of researchers which now covers the whole of the UK and Ireland. He
became a partner in 1988 and took over as proprietor of the business in 1991.
Chris has seen the business of ancestry research change radically over the past
twenty-five years. From the former systems requiring patient queuing at the
Public Record Office census search room to view unindexed records on microfilms,
or working manually through the hefty volumes of births, marriages and deaths at
the General Register Office, through to modern-day working on computers using
largely subscription-based indexes and accessing digitized images of the
records, the golden rule of using primary sources wherever possible had remained
the same. Detailed study of old parish registers, wills, etc., is still a key
part in tracing many people’s ancestry beyond the point where birth, marriage &
death certificates and nineteenth-century census returns can help.
Chris has found great satisfaction in being entrusted with the task of tracing
people’s ancestry. The excitement generated by making a breakthrough in an
investigation, or of finding some unusual or unexpected information, continues
to fascinate.
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