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Tracing Your Roots

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

Radio 4,16 episodes

Episodes

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Series 6
What's in a name?
What's in a name change? Sally Magnusson finds out for several families.
13 Sep 2011,28 mins
Series 6
Life in Confinement
Some ancestors spent their lives in confinement: Sally finds out why...
20 Sep 2011,28 mins
Series 6
Follow the Money
Where did money appear from, or disappear to in a family history?
27 Sep 2011,30 mins
Series 6
What Happens Next: Part 1
Sally and Nick follow up on their favourite Tracing Your Roots stories.
04 Oct 2011,30 mins
Series 6
What Happens Next: Part 2
Sally and Nick return with more of their favourite family history items from past series.
11 Oct 2011,30 mins
20/03/2011
Through the Census, Sally Magnusson reveals one British street's family histories.
20 Mar 2011,30 mins
Series 5
Vanishing Without Trace
Sally Magnusson goes on the trail of ancestors who vanished without trace.
14 Sep 2010,30 mins
Series 5
Tracing Rootless Ancestors
How do you trace the roots of rootless people? Sally Magnusson gets on the trail.
21 Sep 2010,30 mins
Series 5
Radicals and Revolutionaries
Sally Magnusson and genealogist Nick Barratt return to solve more family mysteries.
28 Sep 2010,30 mins
Series 5
Caribbean Roots
Sally Magnusson and Nick Barratt help listeners investigate their Caribbean roots.
05 Oct 2010,30 mins
Series 5
Objects and Heirlooms
Sally Magnusson and genealogist Nick Barratt help listeners trace objects and heirlooms.
12 Oct 2010,30 mins
Series 4
Tracing Your Roots - Wartime Losses
Stella Collis is united with her German PoW father's military records.
31 Aug 2009,30 mins
Series 4
Myths and Truths
Lucille White finds about her great, great-grandmother - was she a daughter of Louis XVI?
07 Sep 2009,30 mins
Series 4
Roots in India
Sam Merry explores his great-grandmother's move from India to Mansfield over 100 years ago
14 Sep 2009,30 mins
Series 4
Immigrants' Tales
Sally Magnusson and Nick Barratt explore the roots of Britain's immigrant families.
21 Sep 2009,30 mins
Series 4
Adoption
Listeners' stories about the process of researching the life of an adoptive relative.
28 Sep 2009,30 mins