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It is only possible to trace your family's passage through history due to the introduction of civil registration, in 1837, for England and Wales. From that time births, marriages and deaths have been registered centrally, and these indexes are available to search, in full through various sites.
Until civil registration it was local parishes that kept records of important events. These parish records of baptism, marriage and burial are becoming more readily available for genealogists.
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How To......
Tracing your own tree.
Gather together everything you have -- papers, photos, documents and family heirlooms. Rummage through your attic or basement, the filing cabinet, the back of the wardrobe.... Then check with your relatives to see if they have any family documents they are willing to share. Clues to your family history might be found on the backs of old photographs, in the family bible, or even on a postcard. If your relative is uneasy with lending an original, offer to have copies made.
Write down everything you have learned from your family and begin to enter the information in a pedigree or family tree chart Which you can download from the resource page. These charts provide an at-a-glance overview of your family, making it easy to track your research progress.
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I would like to take this opportunity to thank my Aunt, Maureen Rush for all her help and input on the Campion - Ball side of my family. She has spent many hours helping me piece things together, and we even managed a few laughs on the way !!!
Uncle Bob Letton did before his untimely death. He was also a keen geaneologist, and a lot of the Letton research in the tree was painstakingly done by him.