About Forebears

Forebears is a genealogy portal featuring:

• A geographically indexed and cross-referenced directory of sources for family history research
• A dictionary of surname meanings, including information on their geographic distribution
• News articles and genealogical research advice

The main aim of the site is to bring together the wide variety of genealogical sources available on and off-line and catalogue them; so as to make them easily accessible by researchers looking for records relating to ancestors in a particular town, region or country.

The site was launched on the 20^th of June 2012.