Family History Related Podcasts

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From crime to punishment: criminal records of our ancestors from the 18th and 19th centuries

Heralds and heraldry at The National Archives

Family history resources at The National Archives (in London, given 1/14 by FHC dir in same building UK search helps in WIKI -everyone needs to use their film to get a copy of ancestor's will)

Sources for tracing agricultural labourers

In the High Court of Justice

Broadmoor Revealed: the Victorian Asylum

Journeys of discovery: Surgeons at sea

Naval medical officers' journals and the history of medicine

Royal Hospital Chelsea: Soldiers' service documents

Credit crunch histories: records of bankrupts in The National Archives

Freedom fighters: sources for black loyalists at The National Archives

Tourists and booking clerks - information for family historians in the Thomas Cook Archives

Identity and identity theft

Tracing marriages in 18th century England and Wales: a reassessment of law and practice

Dependence, intolerance and expulsion: the story of the Jews in England, 1066-1290

Counting the people

Tracing ancestors in Nelson's Navy

New Britons - Immigration to the United Kingdom

Shop workers: tracing your retail ancestors

Education in 1911

Transportation to Australia

The Metropolitan Police: its creation and records of service

Apprenticeship records for family historians

An introduction to sources for Anglican clergymen

Civilian honours and awards

Internment

The final balance: researching families and wealth in the 19th century using the death duty records

Dr Williams' Library: an early birth registry

Royal Naval medals: an introduction

Researching the British Empire and Commonwealth

Burial clubs - the unfriendly societies

Every journey has two ends: using passenger lists

Naturalisation and alien registration

Finding company records

Locality, land and livelihood: sources for early local history

Tracing your ancestors: a case study featuring the Darwin family

Tracing Scottish ancestors

Royal Air Force service records

Irish Land Records

Irish land records - British Sign Language video

Civil registration and beyond

Civil registration and beyond - British Sign Language Video

The Manorial Documents Register

The Manorial Documents Register - British Sign Language Video

Child emigration to Canada

Child emigration to Canada - BSL Sign Language Video

Merchant Navy operational records

The parish: administration and records

The parish: administration and records - British Sign Language video

Customs and Excise service records

Victorian women prisoners

Railway staff records

Introduction to Family History - British Sign Language video

Scandals in the family

Divorce records after 1858

The 'Fleet Registers' or irregular marriage registers of 17th and 18th century London

The annual Ancestors Lecture: our 17th century ancestors

Tracing World War One ancestors

Solving census problems

Emigration records

Criminal ancestors: trial records at The National Archives

Tracing pre-1914 army ancestors

Closing the last day: death, memory and landholding in the Inquisitions Post-Mortem, 1216 - 1660

Sources for army officers' commissions

Modern sources for immigration - part 1

Modern sources for immigration - part 2

Sex, lies and civil registration

In the name of God, Amen: wills for family history

Sources for First World War army ancestry

Tracing your Irish ancestors at The National Archives

Medieval criminals and the law

What at first was plunder: tracing records of excisemen

Creating a legacy from your family history