Suddenly, it's rather fashionable to trace one's family history and meet the relatives, as it were, from centuries past. Now you can get in on the trendy but rather holistic act of tracking your origins with the help of this comprehensive starter kit. Providing a guide to your choice of one of 80,000 surnames (so you can buy it as a gift or simply choose your own name), it'll get you well and truly started on the genealogy trail. Whether you've got pedigree, blue blood or, like millions of us, are nothing but a no-good, in-bred mongrel, only time (and a touch of detective work) will tell. Inside the sleek and luxurious gift tin is a registration certificate which, once completed and returned, will entitle you to a family history of your chosen surname, as established by a team of leading heraldic and genealogical researchers.

To complete the pack, there's a handy 'how-to' book that will set you on the road to meeting the ancestors, and a blank family tree. It might look daunting and empty to begin with, but the book has plenty of ideas about how you can start to fill it up and begin to piece together the strands of who made you who you are.