Joe is joined by Karen Cummings, professional family historian and Managing Director at Pharos Tutors https://www.professionalfamilyhistory.co.uk/ https://www.pharostutors.com/, Sophie Kay, professional genealogist at Khronicle https://www.khr

Series 3 Episode 5: Getting Started With DNA

Dec 8th, 2023 33m 40s

Joe is joined by Andrew Martin, family historian, digital archivist, and host of The Family Histories Podcast https://familyhistoriespodcast.com, Sophie Kay, professional genealogist at Khronicle https://www.khronicle.co.uk/ and the Ancestry a

Series 3 Episode 4: Family, Local & Social History

Dec 1st, 2023 38m 7s

Local and social history are closely linked with family history. They enable us to discover more about our ancestors’ lives, adding detail to core information about life events. Our speakers discuss the value of local and social history and ho

Series 3 Episode 3: Migration Within Britain

Nov 1st, 2023 31m 28s

People in the past moved about a lot more than we might think. In this episode our guests discuss the historical migration of people within Britain, including the kind of movements you might find in your family tree, what this can tell us and

Series 3 Episode 2: Were Your Ancestors Really Married?

Oct 1st, 2023 35m 57s

Many of us will have questioned at some point in our research whether our ancestors were really married. In this episode our guests discuss how you can tell if people were married or not, share some stories and offer tips, including to use Reb

Series 3 Episode 1: Free Resources

Sep 1st, 2023 29m 39s

Family history research can quickly become an expensive hobby. However, there is a wealth of free resources that we can use to help with our research while keeping costs down. We discuss some of the different free (online and in-person) resour

Series 2 Episode 6: Writing your Family History

Mar 30th, 2023 30m 53s

It can be very enjoyable to write about our family history. It is also a useful way to focus our research. In this episode our guests discuss the different ways to write up our family histories and offer some advice for doing so.Joe is join

Series 2 Episode 5: Occupations: Work, Leisure and Health

Feb 28th, 2023 56m 30s

By learning about occupations, we gain a better understanding of the lives of our ancestors such as their health conditions and how they spent their spare time. Our guests share stories and offer advice in this special extended episode.Joe

Series 2 Episode 4: Historians Collaborate

Jan 31st, 2023 37m 1s

Collaboration is incredibly valuable for historical researchers of all kinds. Members of the Historians Collaborate group discuss their activities, why we should all work together and how we might do so. https://historianscollaborate.comJoe

Series 2 Episode 3: Talking to Relatives

Dec 31st, 2022 38m 57s

One of the most rewarding things we can do as genealogists is to talk about our family history with relatives. We discuss approaching family members for their knowledge as well as sharing findings with our families.Joe is joined by Kelly Co

Series 2 Episode 2: Online Resources

Dec 15th, 2022 40m 1s

While it is certainly true that not everything is online, an increasing amount of source material for family history can be found through the internet. Our guests share some of their favourite, lesser-known places to find online genealogy reso

Series 2 Episode 1: Beginning Your Family History

Sep 25th, 2022 33m 15s

Every family historian has a story about how they got into family history. We share our experiences of starting out with this great hobby and share tips for others who are just beginning.Joe is joined by Mish Holman, professional genealogist

Series 1 Episode 6: Newspapers

Feb 23rd, 2022 32m 32s

Joe is joined by Mish Holman, professional genealogist who is particularly interested in theatre ancestors and census enumerators, Margaret Roberts, speaker, editor of the Playing Pasts online sports history magazine and Publicity Officer for

Series 1 Episode 5: One-Place Studies

Jan 26th, 2022 34m 21s

Joe is joined by Janet Few, historian, President of the Family History Federation, former chair of the Society for One-Place Studies and author on the subject, Pam Smith, former professional genealogist and passionate local historian who is co

Series 1 Episode 4: Social Media

Dec 29th, 2021 31m 37s

Joe is joined by Andrew Martin, family historian, author, digital archivist and host of The Family Histories Podcast, Margaret Roberts, editor of the Playing Pasts online sports history magazine and Publicity Officer for the FHS of Cheshire an

Series 1 Episode 3: Online Events

1 Nov 24th, 2021 34m 43s

Joe is joined by Kelly Cornwell, professional family historian, blogger and speaker, Jane Hough, amateur genealogist and blogger, and Margaret Roberts, editor of the Playing Pasts online sports history magazine and Publicity Officer for the FH

Series 1 Episode 2: Young People

1 Oct 26th, 2021 33m 2s

Joe Saunders is joined by Janet Few, historical researcher, writer, speaker and President of the Family History Federation, Margaret Roberts, editor of the Playing Pasts online sports history magazine and Publicity Officer for the FHS of Chesh

Series 1 Episode 1: Occupations

Sep 29th, 2021 35m 13s

In this episode of the Really Useful Podcast, Joe Saunders is joined by Mish Holman, professional genealogist who is particularly interested in theatre ancestors and census enumerators, Mike Esbester, academic historian and co-lead on the Rail