Genealogy - defined as 'an account of the descent of a person or family through an ancestral line', is a high faluting description of what, to the rest of us, is acknowledged just as 'tracing the family tree'.

Nostalgia, which has become really popular in recent years, has found a wealth of collectible interests emerging amongst a public ever eager to get their hands on thing connected with the past: old postcards, postage stamps, paper ephemera, Fifties and '60s record - and family trees! It seems that now we