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Introducing Tee Bylo


As a professional genealogist with an interest in tombstone symbolism – Tee Bylo is a seeker of elusive ancestors and a wanderer of graveyards as The Dead Sleuth.

From genealogical advice, family history research, probate transcription, archive retrieval, to photography, lineage reports and ancestral storytelling – The Dead Sleuth offers a rich menu of research services.

The Dead Sleuth also offers bespoke ancestral tours for visitors who are curious about understanding their family history in the context of location and would love to walk in the footsteps of an ancestor, visit the place they once called home or stand at the foot of their grave in a quiet churchyard.

Passionate about the benefits of Ancestral Healing – Tee also works alongside those who are seeking to understand, reveal and free inherited grief and trauma from their family histories.

As a public speaker, Tee is happy to chat with eager ears and curious minds about her tales of Victorian criminality, tombstone tourism, sleuthing those elusive ancestors and fallen women.

Tee is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, Genealogical Speakers Guild and Society of Genealogists.

A fierce admirer of the poet Lord Byron – Tee is the author of the blog The Regency Recondite.

She lives in the ancient and ghostly City of York.

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The Professional Dead Botherer.


As a professional genealogist with an interest in tombstone symbolism – Tee Bylo is a seeker of elusive ancestors and a wanderer of graveyards as The Dead Sleuth.

With access to the local repositories and archives throughout Yorkshire and beyond – Tee loves working with those who wish to solve the mysteries, riddles and absurdities of their own family history.

And as an enthusiastic taphophile – Tee can also be found with notebook and camera in hand as she goes in seach of those final resting places of the long forgotten dead.

The Dead Sleuth