Past Disvoveries - professional searching for ancestors Tracing your ancestors? Believe they lived or worked in Hertfordshire, Contact Past Discoveries, Hertfordshire based family owned professional genealogists. As a local expert genealogy business, we have that extra knowledge and experience of where to look. Searching family history has highlights and excitement, unfortunately it also has 'brick walls' and dead ends. This is where local professional family history researchers (known as genealogists) can help putting together the missing pieces. Past Discoveries can help you find information about ancestors such as where they lived, if the house still exists, when and where they were born, married and died and what they did for a living and if the places of work still exists, even who their family were. We can discover new leads and lines of enquiry. Our aim to you is to provide a friendly service that is tailored to your specific needs. We also endeavour to present our Clients with a Professional Report showing all of the research carried out.