This is the most common question we receive and the most difficult to answer Every case that we handle is unique and this is the main reason that we don’t offer a package as such. However as a rough guide for UK research, if we are beginning at around 1900, and if research proceeds smoothly, we would expect to discover at least three or four further generations. However, there are many variable factors: some families stayed in the same country parish for generations, others moved around frequently in densely populated cities. Some family’s left better ‘paper trails’ than others!