Podcasts by Tracing Your Roots

Tracing Your Roots

Series exploring the practice of researching family history, one of the UK's most rapidly growing pastimes

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Podcast on the topic Geschichte

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Tracing Your Roots
What Happens Next: Part 2 from 2011-10-11T15:30

The accidental tourist who turned out to be a full blooded revolutionary. The family tale of Queen Alexandra attempting suicide. And finding the POW father who returned to Germany after the war....

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What Happens Next: Part 1 from 2011-10-04T15:30

When Sally and Nick are able to provide vital new clues for listeners, they often wish they knew what listeners decide to do next with this new found information. Today Sally and Nick follow up ...

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Follow the Money from 2011-09-27T15:30

The uncle who lost millions, and the family legend of a pile of cash just waiting to be released from chancery....Sally and Nick attempt to trace what happened to the money.

Delving into t...

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Life in Confinement from 2011-09-20T15:28

What happened to all those ancestors who were "disappeared" into institutions because society couldn't cope with them or deemed their behaviour unacceptable? Sally and Nick answer listeners ques...

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What's in a name? from 2011-09-13T15:30

Sally Magnusson is back with more genealogical mysteries for Nick Barratt to sink his teeth into. Today, they all involve name changes, and we reveal the stories behind them.

And how can y...

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20/03/2011 from 2011-03-20T14:00

In this Tracing Your Roots Census Special, Sally Magnusson visits Fox Lane in Leyland. With the help of genealogist Nick Barratt, she explores how, through the Census, we can piece together a st...

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Objects and Heirlooms from 2010-10-12T15:30

The last programme of the series ties in with the History of the World in 100 Objects. Sally Magnusson and resident genealogist Nick Barratt track down the stories behind fascinating objects and...

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Caribbean Roots from 2010-10-05T15:30

October is Black History Month and this week Tracing Your Roots hears from listeners with family ties to the Caribbean. We follow Monica Brown, whose family come from Jamaica, as she makes an em...

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Radicals and Revolutionaries from 2010-09-28T15:30

This week the popular Radio 4 genealogy show presented by Sally Magnusson features listeners whose ancestors may have been involved in revolution or radical actions.

Trying to find recor...

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Tracing Rootless Ancestors from 2010-09-21T15:30

Tracing the roots of rootless ancestors might seem an impossible task, yet in this second programme of the series, Sally Magnusson and Nick Barratt attempt to do just that.

Mark Lorch is d...

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Vanishing Without Trace from 2010-09-20T10:59

In the first of a new series, Sally Magnusson goes on the trail of ancestors who vanished without trace, abandoning their families either by choice or by force of circumstance.

The mother...

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