Every family has a story. This is where yours begins.
Integrity Insight - Ancestry and Heritage Research
" Discover your Past, Preserve your Legacy"
🌍 UK, Irish & international family history research
About Us
🌿At Integrity Insight, our mission is to bring family histories to life — uncovering the stories, connections, and moments that make every lineage unique. We believe every name deserves to be remembered, every story deserves to be told, and every generation deserves to understand where they came from. We specialise in careful, evidence-led research that reconstructs individual lives from historical records. 🌿
🔎 Every project begins with careful professional scoping, ensuring the right research approach is taken from the outset.
Introduction
🌿Introduction
Researching your family history can feel overwhelming — especially when records are missing, names change, or family stories don’t quite match the documents.
At Integrity Insight, I specialise in careful, evidence-led research that reconstructs individual lives from historical records — bringing context, clarity, and understanding to the fragments that survive.
You don’t need complete documents or absolute certainty to begin — sometimes all it takes is a single name, a question, or a story you’ve always wondered about. 🌱
From Records to Real Lives
✨Why Our Stories Matter
📜 Your Family Story Is Unlike Anyone Else’s
🌱 What Is a Family Tree?
Family history isn’t just about names and dates — it’s connection.
It’s the moment you realise your great-grandmother lived just a few streets away from where you stand now.
It’s discovering the origin of a surname you’ve carried your whole life.
It’s learning that someone, generations before you, made a choice — and that choice shaped the
Family history isn’t just about names and dates — it’s connection.
It’s the moment you realise your great-grandmother lived just a few streets away from where you stand now.
It’s discovering the origin of a surname you’ve carried your whole life.
It’s learning that someone, generations before you, made a choice — and that choice shaped the life you’re living today.
Researching your ancestry helps us:
💚 Understand where we come from
🌿 Honour those who came before us
📜 Reconstruct lives that have been reduced to fragments in the records
🌱 What Is a Family Tree?
📜 Your Family Story Is Unlike Anyone Else’s
🌱 What Is a Family Tree?
A family tree is a starting point — a framework that shows how people are connected.
But on its own, a tree rarely explains how people actually lived.
It can include:
🏷️ Names
📅 Dates
📍 Places
🔗 Relationships
These pieces are not just data — they are clues to a life lived, and the meaning lies in how they connect
📜 Your Family Story Is Unlike Anyone Else’s
📜 Your Family Story Is Unlike Anyone Else’s
📜 Your Family Story Is Unlike Anyone Else’s
In almost every family history, there is :
✨ a traveller
✨ a survivor
✨ a story keeper
✨ a mystery
✨ an ancestor no one talks about
✨ someone whose story deserves to be remembered
Your family history isn’t random — it’s a series of threads woven through time.
Tracing those threads can change how you see yourself, your roots, and your futur
In almost every family history, there is :
✨ a traveller
✨ a survivor
✨ a story keeper
✨ a mystery
✨ an ancestor no one talks about
✨ someone whose story deserves to be remembered
Your family history isn’t random — it’s a series of threads woven through time.
Tracing those threads can change how you see yourself, your roots, and your future.
This is where careful research matters — not assumptions, copied trees, or surface-level results
🌿 Core Research Projects
👉 All research projects begin with professional scoping — this review determines the appropriate research approach before deeper research is undertaken.
🌱 Start Your Story – Professional Scoping (£65)
A focused review of your starting point to:
✔ identify gaps, contradictions, and sensitivities
✔ clarify what research work is appropriate next
✔ provide a Research Direction Summary and recommended path
This is the essential first step — no full project is started before scoping🔎
🌿 Story Research Project (from £350)
For those who want a clearer understanding of an individual’s life through the records with interpretation guided by historical and social context rather than assumption
Suitable where records are largely consistent and can be brought together into a coherent narrative, with interpretation guided by historical and social context rather than speculation.
🌳 Life Reconstruction Project (from £995)
In-depth, evidence-led research for complex and sensitive cases or situations where records alone cannot fully explain a life or identity
Appropriate where records are incomplete, conflicting, or require careful interpretation and ethical handling.
In-depth, evidence-led research for complex or sensitive cases, where records alone cannot fully explain a life, identity, or family history.
How Your Research Journey Begins....
🟢 I’m just beginning
→ Start with professional scoping to clarify your starting point.
🟡 I’ve already started, but I’m stuck
→ A scoped review can pinpoint challenges and recommend the best next step.
🔵 I want to understand someone’s life in full
→ Scoping determines whether Story Research or Life Reconstruction is appropriate.
Why People Choose Integrity Insight
🌿 Why People Choose Integrity Insight
✓ Evidence-based research only
✓ Clear communication and realistic expectations
✓ Support and guidance throughout the research process
✓ Suitable whether you’re just beginning or facing a complex research problem
✓ UK & Irish records, migration histories, brick walls, and fragmented family lines
✓ Training and certification in DNA and genealogical research (ICOES)
✓ An investigative, analytical approach grounded in accuracy and evidence
✓ Confidential, careful and methodical research
✨ Your history is treated with respect at every step ✨
Services we offer
🌿 Integrity Insight – Core Research Projects
All research projects begin with professional scoping. The projects below are undertaken only following a scoping review.
🌿Start your Story - Professional Scoping Review
£65
A focused review of your starting point, designed to provide clarity and direction before any full research begins.
This scoping review:
- confirms the individual or family line to be researched
- assesses existing informaion and available records
- identifies gaps, contradictions, sensitivities, or potential complexities
- clarifies what type of research approach is appropriate next
You will receive a short written Research Direction Summary with clear, realistic guidance on next steps.
📖 Story Research Project
From £350
An evidence-led research project focused on understanding and reconstructing an individual’s life through the records, shaped into a clear and coherent narrative.
This project brings together sources such as census records, civil registrations, newspapers, and other relevant documentation to:
- establish an accurate timeline
- place the individual within their historical and social context
- interpret how their life unfolded, grounded firmly in evidence
🧩 Life Reconstruction Project
From £995
A specialist, in-depth research approach for complex, fragmented, or sensitive histories, where records alone cannot fully explain a life, identity, or set of circumstances.
This project is designed for:
- missing or contradictory records
- illegitimacy, abandonment, or disputed parentage
- name changes, migration, or identity shifts
- family stories that conflict with documentary evidence
Life Reconstruction - careful analysis, ethical interpretation, and transparent reasoning to reconstruct a persons life.
Menu / Price List
🌿 Supporting Research Services
Supporting services are available either as part of a scoped project or where a specific research issue has already been clearly identified.
🌿Lineage Verification & Accuracy Review
From £95
A calm, methodical review of one family line to check accuracy, confirm evidence, and correct common errors. Ideal if you’ve already started researching but want reassurance that what you have is correct before going further.
Includes:
- Verify key birth, marriage and death details
- Review census and parish register connections
- Identify and remove duplicated or mislinked individuals
- Corrections to dates, spellings and locations
- Highlighting of uncertain, missing, or weak evidence
- A clear written summary
🌿Foundational Line Research
£175
Your introduction to your ancestry — tracing up to 3 generations along one family line (maternal or paternal).
Includes:
- Research of birth, marriage & death records
- Census and parish register references
- Narrative summary report
- 3-generation family tree
📜 Add a second line (maternal or paternal) for +£100
🌿Extended Line Research
£495
A comprehensive ancestry journey tracing 4 generations, blending verified records with historical storytelling.
Includes:
- Extensive genealogical research (one family line)
- Heritage-style narrative report
- Copies of located records
- Contextual history and optional local maps
📜 Add a second line (maternal or paternal) for +£400
🕵️♀️ Investigation (Specialist Research)
From £125
For clients requiring complex or targeted research — ideal for:
- Breaking through “brick wall” cases where standard records end
- Verifying disputed family connections or rumours
- Tracing unknown parents, adoptions, or surname origins
Includes:
- Targeted investigation plan
- Search of additional or hard-to-access archives
- Professional summary of findings with references
📜 Package of Records (Digital or Printed)
£65 (Digital) £85 (Printed)
A beautifully organised collection of all records located during your research — ideal for keeping or gifting.
Includes:
- Certified copies or digital scans of all located records (birth, marriage, death, census, parish entries)
- Organised and labelled reference index
- Optional printed presentation folder
🕰️ Delivery: With final report
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🌿 Grave & Memorial Research
🪦 Find a Grave Search & Summary
£25
A gentle search across online grave databases and available parish sources to locate a burial listing or memorial reference.
Includes:
- Find A Grave, BillionGraves and related databases
- Parish record checks (where available)
- Summary of findings and available images or links
🕰️ Timeframe: 1–2 weeks
⚰️ Burial Location Discovery
£45
For when you know someone has passed, but the burial place isn’t clear. This search focuses on identifying a cemetery, churchyard, or registered burial site using multiple historical sources.
Includes:
- Burial and cemetery record searches
- Parish registers and indexed archive collections
- Summary of findings or next-best recommended steps
🕰️ Timeframe: 2–3 weeks
🕯️ Memorial / Headstone Report
£30
A respectful transcription and interpretation of memorial or headstone details, including any notes on design, symbols, or nearby family burials.
Includes:
- Inscription transcription
- Symbol or memorial meaning (where relevant)
- Nearby family or related burials (if available)
🕰️ Timeframe: 1–2 weeks
📜 Burial Record Discovery
£30
A focused record search to locate official burial entries, registers, or archival documentation linked to a known or suspected death.
Includes:
- Confirmation of death record
- Search of parish or cemetery burial registers
- Clear explanation of findings
🕰️ Timeframe: 1–3 weeks
🌾 Grave Cluster Check
£25
A search to identify relatives buried nearby — often a useful step for confirming family relationships and building context.
Includes:
- Review of cemetery/parish listings
- Summary of nearby burials
- Notes on potential family relationships
🕰️ Timeframe: 1–2 weeks
🌿 Gift Card
A gift card allows someone you care about to begin or continue their family history journey
What the recipient receives:
✔️ A personalised digital gift card
✔️ Private and supportive research
✔️ Their chosen package delivered with care and accuracy
Frequently Asked Questions
Please reach us at nicki@integrityinsight.co.uk if you cannot find an answer to your question.
You don’t need certificates, photos or detailed knowledge. Even if you only know a name, place or approximate year, that’s enough to begin. Many people start with very little information — that’s completely normal, and often where the most meaningful research begins.
Family history research varies widely in complexity, sensitivity, and interpretation. Scoping ensures the right approach is taken from the outset — protecting accuracy, managing ethical considerations, and avoiding unnecessary cost or misdirection.
Smaller research projects may take around 2–4 weeks, while deeper life-reconstruction or legacy projects take longer due to the breadth and complexity of the records involved. Timeframes are estimated at the beginning and I keep you updated throughout so you always know what stage we’re at.
In some cases where records are missing or incomplete, I provide a research summary of where and how the search was conducted, and guidance on what may be possible next (for example parish, archive or newspaper searches). You will not be left with silence — you’ll always receive an explanation, guidance and options.
Research projects are agreed and scoped before any work begins.
Shorter or introductory projects are usually paid in full at the start. For more in-depth research, staged or instalment payments may be available depending on the structure of the project.
Payment is handled securely via bank transfer or PayPal.
Yes — I specialise in UK and Irish ancestry research, including Scottish and Northern Irish lines. Where migration is involved, research may extend internationally depending on record availability and historical context.
Yes. If you have results from AncestryDNA, MyHeritage or similar services, these can be incorporated into the research — particularly where records are fragmented or identities are unclear.
You will receive a written narrative summary — not simply a list of names and dates.
The focus is on understanding who your ancestor was: where they lived, the period they lived in, and the wider context that shaped their life.
Yes — gift vouchers are available and can be used toward any research project. They’re often chosen for birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas, or family milestones.
Research findings are delivered digitally as a PDF or document, depending on the scope of the project. For larger projects, printed or bound formats may be available as an optional addition.
Absolutely — many clients come to me when they reach a “brick wall”, or when records and family stories don’t align. I can help assess what’s been done, confirm findings, and carefully move the research forward.
Yes — I offer an optional gravesite and monument search as part of wider research. This can help identify an ancestor’s resting place and sometimes provides contextual clues that do not appear in other records.
If you’re unsure where to begin, you’re welcome to message me — I’m happy to help you decide on the most appropriate starting point.
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