History guide is a good source for learning the history of the place you are looking for your relatives. http://www.historyguide.de/start.php You always need to know the history of the area and era. It does no good looking for a photograph of your Revolutionary War ancestor but you can waste a whole lot of time on that if you don't know that cameras were not invented until the mid-1800's. A United Kingdom portrait gallery http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/ Bette