Once upon a time, genealogy was all about sweeping the dust off ancient ledgers of births, deaths and marriages, leafing through death notices in withered newspapers, and scrabbling in search of memorial inscriptions in overgrown cemeteries, writes David Fickling.
These days you can pretty much dig up your family tree from the comfort of a computer chair. The oddly-titled Naomi – the National Archive of Memorial Inscriptions – has become the latest of many searchable internet genealogy databases, and offers users the opportunity to buy a photo of their ancestors’ gravestones online.
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