Talks
Talks will be held throughout the day and will be available to watch online for 7 days. All talks are subtitled.
Main Theatre
Methods, tools, and record sets that help move research forward when it feels like you have hit a brick wall.
A guide to the key records and resources that can bring homes, streets, and communities into sharper focus.
Smart strategies for finding more information faster, along with common pitfalls to avoid when working online.
How to interpret medals, trace service history, and use military sources to add detail and context to an ancestor’s story.
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.
A real-world genealogy case study showing how DNA evidence can transform a research problem - and what it can (and cannot) prove. Discover the story of my great-grandfather and the discovery from DNA testing that he was an NPE.
Exhibitor Theatre
The Detective's Guide to Unlocking English and Welsh Family History
Add detail to your RAF ancestors story with the Operations Record Books. This talk gives examples taken from these fascinating contemporary "journal-like" books as well as exploring some famous names.
Smart strategies for finding more information faster, along with common pitfalls to avoid when working online.
This talk explores how with research and the right tools you can step back in time looking at where your ancestors lived, worked and spent their leisure time. Follow the routes they may have taken on old maps and look at the views they may have seen.