Essential Reading

'I have been a family historian for more than 40 years, and a professional historian for over 30, but as I read it, I was constantly encountering new ways of looking at my family history....Essential reading I would say!' Alan Crosby, WDYTYA Magazine

Friday 29 September 2017

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)







Finnish Broadcasting Archive, 1930, Wikimedia Commons


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Tuesday 12 September 2017

Branwell Bronte - What the Records Hide


See my article to celebrate the bicentenary of  Branwell Bronte's birth in this month's

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