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This process involves using the records in reverse, working down from a known ancestor rather than up from you. Start by seeking the births of other children of the couple from whom you want to trace down.

You can then jump forward and seek their deaths, inspecting death records of people of the right age to see which has the correct parents’ names.

Once you have the right death record, you can see if they had married, and if so seek the marriage record and then search for the births of children (a short-cut would be if the informant of the death was one of the person’s children).

Up to 1901, use censuses to find out who people’s children were. From 1928 onwards, mothers’ maiden names are given in the birth indexes, so you can easily spot all the offspring