Serious Genealogy Research

The next twelve months were spent checking and double checking every name on the pedigree and wierd as it may seem we found no mistakes. What we did find were families such as the Staffords, Dukes of Buckingham, the Vernons of Haddon Hall, Derbyshire, Mary Boleyn, Queen Anne's sister or if you have read the book "The Other Bolyn Girl" . The list goes on.

During this time I sent off for as many birth, death and marriage certs as I could find and baptismal records from various libraries, where I found the Archivists were really helpful. I managed to get proof of the family as far back as Timothy Spencer b.1748, my 3rd great grandfather. What I really needed was the proof that his grandfather has married Mary Archer descendant of the Archers, Barons of Umberslade Hall, Warwickshire because by this time my little history for the twins was growing at an alarming rate and I had decided to write a book incorporating each generation of Archer and the families (with pedigrees) they married into.

It took another two years of slogging research to confirm with no doubts the names I wanted to write about as I was by no means a trained researcher although I'm pretty good at it now. One of the best find I made was Dugdale' Antiquities of Warwickshire 1656 which contained the pedigree of the Archer family and had been given to Dugdale by Sir Simon Archer, himself an Antiquarian.