To get true success in your genealogy then you need to have empathy.

You need to think yourself into the shoes and times of those that lived in the era you are tracing.

This may then present many more clues and places for you to look than you currently are thinking of with todays modern life and experiences affecting how you think!

Remember for instance how travel has changed us all. Whilst we take it for granted covering large distances, in olden days people rarely moved far from where they were based, and therefore looking in a locality is usually a safe bet to find where someone ended up.

Also think about employment and what they did - there are many industrial records of employees for instance, so if there was a large mine near where you think the relative lived then that could be somewhere to check the records for, as well as the local church.

Remember that some ancestors might sadly have had a shorter life than we expect today, so if you see someone registered then suddenly 'disappear' check the burial register of the church to see if the child-relative died in infancy.