Hi Bev As has already been said, the staff at the LMA are extremely knowledgeable and helpful and the research service is fairly priced. However, to make the most of the time you pay for it is important to have some idea what you are looking for. We are now so used to online sites where most of the material has been transcribed or indexed that it can be a shock to realise that archive staff cannot simply "look up" our ancestors and that a catalogue is just that - a structured list of the holdings, not an index of its contents. I would recommend that you post some details of your puzzle here so that experienced London researchers can offer suggestions about the types of documentary records that may exist to help solve it. Best wishes Caroline > I am wondering if anyone has ever used the research service at LMA? I > have taken a look at catalog but haven't gotten very far. If you have > had experience with using the catalog or the service I would be > interested in your opinion and iinsights (off list if you would like). > I understand that the LMA has a relationship with Ancestry but that > there is much that isn't online at this time. > > Thanks, > > Bev W