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Drone footage is a fabulous and fun way to add additional colour and interest to our family history research. Explore how images from drones can help us understand the local landscape and distribution of our ancestral communities.
Simon Davies and his drone named ‘Kevin’ have explored his ancestral landscape in mid-Wales and gained a fabulous sense of the spaces and byways that connected pockets of his ancestors.
As well as sharing the amazing footage that can be created, you’ll learn practical considerations of filming with a drone.
Simon is often accused of droning on about his family history but since ‘Kevin’ the drone came into his life, the term has brought on a new meaning!
Simon is an obsessed genealogist and lover of anything relating to history and nostalgia. His ancestry spans the social spectrum from Irish night soilman in Manchester, South Shropshire farmers, watchmakers in Clerkenwell to a Cornish landowner who drowned crossing the River Camel at Padstow on a dark stormy night in 1814.
His background is in digital product design and tech entrepreneurship. Outside of work, Simon is a Trustee of the Shropshire Family History Society, a keen naturalist, cyclist and supporter of Liverpool FC. He lives with his wife and two teenage children in West London, England.
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