Uncover the secrets to overcoming stumbling blocks in your family history research! Discover new and innovative search strategies to locate those elusive relatives. Explore unique record collections that can tell you more about your ancestors’ lives.

Unleash the power of historical records and maps to track an ancestor throughout their life. Also learn how to discover how an area changed over time and what that would mean for your ancestors' lives. Join us for an illuminating talk that brings your family’s past to life through geographic connections.

English and Welsh probate records are split into two eras – pre and post 1858 – and how to track down your ancestors’ probate records is different in these two timescales. This talk takes you through the differences for these two eras, the types of records you may find and what they contain.

A technical talk that examines the key sources that you'd use to trace industrial labourers and a variety of professions linked to transportation networks, factory workers and mining and how to find out more about their ways of life.