Folk, Stone and Bones

Folk, Stone and Bones provides a full research service to help you in your search whether you just want to find a single person or place, or develop a family tree. I became fascinated with family research and how and why events occurred in a person’s life in the context of the events happening around them, the bigger picture. As I moved through my working life I found that research played a major

role in the work I undertook, and when I returned to University to complete a Masters Degree I honed my detective and analytical skills in research d sifting through records, and the literature, to find what I needed. When my father died in 2008 I realised I knew very little about my family. So, I set out on a path to bring together my formal skills and my desire to discover facts and information and immersed myself in research and the ever-growing sources of information available through sites and portals such as Ancestry.com, FindMyPath, online services andl Government Archives, History Societies and others. Today there is more information available than ever before. It is well organised, centralised and relatively easy to obtain. I was well rewarded for my work. I found cousins I never knew I had, I
learnt facts about my family I never knew, some good, some bad, and it helped me grow as a person and to truly understand my heritage.”

My immediate family was English and when we emigrated to Australia when I was 9 years old, we left behind our history. Our family was not close, but between the wars and after WWll, many of our relatives emigrated to Australia, Canada, America and so what little contact we may have had was lost over time.”

Now I am in touch with members of those families, my cousins, for the first time.”

James Stewart-Rattray owner/director of Folk, Stones and Bones, is a University trained researcher with over 10 years’ experience in family and genealogical research.