Family History

Trying to trace an or relative who was an accountant? The ICAEW Library & Information Service has produced a number of guides and resources that can help.

Useful Sources

• Accountancy Ancestors
  A new resource developed to help researchers tracing their family history or who are studying the history of accountancy firms. Accountancy Ancestors includes an index to over 3,200 obituaries and 1,700 photographs of individuals from 1874 to 1965.
• Knowledge Guide to Accountancy Ancestors
  A short guide for genealogists to highlight some of the sources that can help in tracing ancestors who were accountants or in tracing the history of a firm.
• Knowledge Guide to ICAEW Examination Papers
  A guide to the archived examination papers and pass lists that we hold.
• Members Lists of Accountancy Bodies
  A guide to our unique collection of over 220 series of membership lists for accountancy bodies from 1877 to the present day.
• What's in a name: Firms' simplified family trees on the web
  Family trees showing the development of the largest UK accountancy firms of the twentieth century compiled and revised by respected accounting historian, Peter Boys for a new online edition, published in November 2005.