Changing Places: Tracing English convicts from crime to colony
Transportation and immigration to Colonial Australia transformed ordinary places into milestones of extraordinary journeys.
An Introduction to Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire Archives
An overview of the UNESCO-recognised Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire Archives which collects, preserves and makes publicly available many diverse collections of records relating to the northeast of Scotland.
Schull, West Cork, Ireland: Making the Invisible Visible (The records of the Reproductive Loan Fund Institution)
This presentation briefly outlines the history of the Loan Funds Institution and the value of the record set to genealogists, which provides evidence of non-elite Irish who may not appear in any other surviving documents.
Family history in Jersey (Channel Islands)
If your family has links to Jersey, this talk will tell you which organisations to contact, what’s available online and what the main sources are for family history research in the island.
Navigating The 1926 Irish Census Website
This talk will examine some of the unique features of the new website and some expanded search features that have been promised.
Fields, Flocks, and Tenants: Decoding the 1570 Arundel Manorial Survey
Discover daily life in Elizabethan West Sussex through the lens of the 1570 Survey of the Honour of Arundel.
An Unexpected Archive: how an ordinary filing cabinet revealed an extraordinary collection
Researching our places means using different types of archives. There is a great deal of material available online and, as we dig deeper, in national and local archives.
Goole Unboxed: A Bicentenary and Beyond
2026 is a landmark year for Goole, East Yorkshire, as it marks 200 years since the town was established as a port.
Was Your Ancestor on the Tithe Map?
Discover how to interpret tithe maps and apportionments, connect your ancestors to specific plots of land and combine them with other sources to better understand where they lived and worked.
The Wellcome Collection – a family historian’s perspective
Cheryl shares her experience of visiting the Wellcome Collection for the first time as a family historian.