Dominic has been actively researching his own family history for over seven years. The interest in where (and who) he was from has been bubbling away ever since he was a small child and he realised that he didn't know either of his grandfathers. As nobody could answer his questions in more detail he decided to find the answers himself.

During that time he has answered some of his original questions, found a whole host of new ones and is keen to add that this is the nature of genealogy itself – there is always another avenue, another question, another puzzle.

 

He has been helped a great deal in his pursuits of those puzzles by new family members he has met along the way. Those include tracing the family of his paternal grandfather, only to be met with open arms by his American cousins (and uncles and aunts …..), and discovering roots scattered all through the United Kingdom, as well as into France, the Netherlands, Spain and branching into (and back out of) America and Australia. Some of his most intense moments were discovering his past ancestors were signatories on Magna Carta, had royal links and even film star credentials!

Along the way Dominic discovered he had a passion for not only dealing with his own family, but also for digging up ancestors and relatives for friends.

In his professional career as a researcher he has worked for overseas clients unable to undertake research themselves and has experience with tracing family for adoptees. He has been filmed by ITV for a documentary after researching the birth parents of his partner's aunt.