Welcome To Military & Family Research

I engaged Ann on a number of military and general genealogy research projects over several years. The results provide provenance for artefacts, art and militaria, which have a commercial value. Consequently, any research must be of the highest standard, thoroughly researched with integrity and with trust that all avenues have been explored. Being able to satisfy the most challenging of auctioneers and collectors that everything is appropriately represented is the ultimate test of Ann's ability! You will not be disappointed in what is an outstanding, prompt and value for money service.

We commissioned Ann to source the 1st Battalion Irish Guards' War Diary for January-February 1944 at the National archives, so that we could have a little more detail and context for our trip to Anzio to pay our respects to a relative who died in battle there. Ann was kind and helpful throughout the process, responding promptly to all our emails, and we would not hesitate to recommend her. Once we receive our relative's military service records, we shall commission Ann once again as we try to fill gaps in our family's history.

Ann has helped me with family research when I have been unable to make progress myself and her expertise and speed of response, plus her very friendly manner, means it is a pleasure to recommend her. I have been a local historian in Notts for many years and just wish that Ann could join our local research team.

Ann has been a tremendous help in trying to trace our military Great/Great Great Grandfather scrolling through the muster records, medical records and anything else that we thought might help in our quest. Ann's efforts and findings have given us other avenues of research to investigate in Ireland where our ancestor was born.

Ann's results to my requests were always promptly met, likewise her requests to me when I asked too vague a question of her. Our conversations were easy as though chatting over the garden fence, and not by email from opposite sides of the world. A gift she has, I feel, as she delivers all the answers I needed, often with added information that I was unaware of, but were relevant. An excellent working relationship with some one I've never met, and never talked with"

Ann Swabey has been carrying out family and military history research for the Nottingham Post and its Bygones nostalgia magazine since 2005. On many occasions she has been able to provide detailed and accurate facts and figures in response to requests from the newspaper and also from readers seeking background information to fill out their family trees. We will certainly be making further use of her knowledge and expertise in the future.

Ann Swabey’s assistance in conducting the research for my website www.riverheadpc.kentparishes.gov.uk was invaluable. She was able to access material quickly and efficiently saving me considerable time and money. I highly recommend her to anyone conducting research into the past.

Ann Swabey has been recommended by the Museum of the Mercian Regiment (Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Collection) for many years now. Ann is quick, efficient and always manages to find information when all hope seems lost. Here at the Museum, we receive much praise for Ann’s work and have never had one complaint. Ann Swabey is highly recommended for all your research needs!

Ann Swabey was instrumental in my early days of the Walker family history, in as far as she found the history behind my fathers strange surname, that was different to mine. It took Ann months of patient research to find him, then one night the phone rang it was Ann " Eureka " she said I have found him Now I am addicted to family history stretching all around the world.. I would recommend Ann in your search for family members.

Ann has carried out research on both my grandfather's WWI records, & most recently my family history going back to the early 1800's. She provides a quick & efficient service for those who do not wish to spend hours doing it themselves! Various routes of research are discussed, & her work gives good value for money.

I am grateful to Ann for her speedy research in finding the identities and locations of members of two families that had eluded my own efforts to locate. Done and dusted very quickly. But for her I would still be looking.

I have been researching both sides of my family history for several years and each time I became stuck with finding a particular relative, both civil and military, Ann has been able to research in areas I was unable to reach, both at home and overseas. Ann offers a first class research service at very reasonable cost. Her proximity to the National Archive at Kew is an added bonus. I would not hesitate to recommend Ann Swabey if starting out on a quest for family history.

I have been using Ann to research my family. I have been completely satisfied by the results that she has produced, and i would not hesitate to recommend her to anybody researching their family.

Among the acknowledgements in our book is one to Ann Swabey. Ann sought out relevant information on dead soldiers and sailors, which was only accessible at the National Archives. Without her help it would have been an expensive and time-consuming process travelling from Nottingham down to London in order to search through the material ourselves. I would heartily commend her research services to anyone who has need of them.

These are the words of the Regimental Headquarters Archives department of the Sherwood Foresters in March 2008 when I first came across Ann's name. "We can recommend a researcher who will carry out work on your behalf". I can agree with this wholeheartedly from my experiences over 10 years now, all the research being for the WW2 period. I have found her very efficient and most of all enthusiastic on whatever areas of research the work has taken us and have recommended her to others and each has the same option of the service.

If you are looking for a professtional researcher to trace your family's history or need help to negotiate your way over a difficult brick wall, then it makes sense to use an experienced researcher who is located within easy reach of the National Archives at Kew. With Ann, you have that complete package. My research was to find the father I never knew, who has been cloaked in a veil of mystery for almost 60 years and was nothing but a ink blot on my birth certificate. It was a brick wall the size of China's and seemed impossible to get over. With help I did. my parents' story and Ann's tireless contribution is now documented in my book - The Daddy of all Mysteries by Jess Welsbey