21 JANUARY 1949, Page 5

My note last week on Americans and genealogies has brought

both confirmation of the fact that many Americans are anxious to trace their pedigrees in this country, and that various agencies to help them do exist. Public Libraries, it appears, render this service regularly both to Americans and to Commonwealth citizens. A Scots Ancestry Research Society at Edinburgh covers Scottish pedigrees. There is at least one private agency '(and probably many more) doing similar work. All this is satisfactory, but it makes it the more desirable that there should be one official somewhere, perhaps at the Travel Association offices, to whom American visitors can go to be told how to start on their enquiries.