{"id":2330,"date":"2013-08-29T11:53:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T11:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/?p=2330"},"modified":"2025-10-31T00:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:17:10","slug":"mandy-blake-amethyst-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/researchers\/mandy-blake-amethyst-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandy Blake &#8211; Amethyst Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an adoptee, I traced my birth family and became fascinated by family history research. I have over a decade&#8217;s experience in researching my own family trees (both birth and adoptive), my husband&#8217;s family tree, and helping other people with theirs, plus tracing and reuniting separated families. I set up my own small business in November 2011 as I get a great deal of job satisfaction from research and reunion.<\/p>\n<p>I offer packages for family trees, or I can tailor a package to suit the client\u2019s requirements and budget \u2013 no client request is too big or too small! I offer research at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre and this is charged at an hourly rate, but I don\u2019t charge for my travelling time.\u00a0 I can search for living people, including birth relatives, only using records which are already in the public domain.<\/p>\n<p>I have completed several genealogy-related short courses (from the University of Dundee, the NIGS, Pharos and FWL).<\/p>\n<p>I am a Member of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG), a Founding Member and Secretary of The Surname Society, and a Member of the Devon Family History Society.<\/p>\n<p>My website can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amethystresearch.co.uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.amethystresearch.co.uk<\/a> and I can be contacted at <a href=\"mailto:mandy@amethystresearch.co.uk\">mandy@amethystresearch.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family history; research at Wiltshire &amp; Swindon History Centre; people-tracing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[61,69,4,7,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4225,"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions\/4225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}