Actually Listen - Tracing Your Ancestors Through Sound - Includes Example Sound File To Try

'Sounding Out the Past '

my article in November 2017's Family Tree Magazine UK

Recreate the soundscape of your ancestors' lives and experiences using the multitude of audio records online and in the archives.

Example: Click below to hear gardener John Cornelius (b.1949) talking about his ancestors who worked in the Somerset gloving industry (British Sound Archive file)

Reminiscences of the Somerset Gloving Industry

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Finnish Broadcasting Archive, 1930, Wikimedia Commons


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