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Tracing Your Roots

BBC

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

Tracing Your Roots Podcast Guide

Listen to Tracing Your Roots, a Society & Culture podcast by BBC. Stream 11 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Episodes

11 episodes are available for this podcast.

Episodes

11 episodes

What Happens Next: Part 2

The accidental tourist who turned out to be a full blooded revolutionary. The family tale of Queen Alexandra attempting suicide. And finding...

28:06Oct 11, 2011

What Happens Next: Part 1

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...

27:58Oct 4, 2011

Follow the Money

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...

27:54Sep 27, 2011

Life in Confinement

What happened to all those ancestors who were "disappeared" into institutions because society couldn't cope with them or deemed their behavi...

27:54Sep 20, 2011

What's in a name?

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

27:55Sep 13, 2011

20/03/2011

In this Tracing Your Roots Census Special, Sally Magnusson visits Fox Lane in Leyland. With the help of genealogist Nick Barratt, she explor...

27:48Mar 20, 2011

Objects and Heirlooms

The last programme of the series ties in with the History of the World in 100 Objects. Sally Magnusson and resident genealogist Nick Barratt...

28:04Oct 12, 2010

Caribbean Roots

October is Black History Month and this week Tracing Your Roots hears from listeners with family ties to the Caribbean. We follow Monica Bro...

28:04Oct 5, 2010

Radicals and Revolutionaries

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

28:04Sep 28, 2010

Tracing Rootless Ancestors

Tracing the roots of rootless ancestors might seem an impossible task, yet in this second programme of the series, Sally Magnusson and Nick...

28:05Sep 21, 2010

Vanishing Without Trace

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

28:02Sep 20, 2010

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