Tracing Your Roots
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Tracing Your Roots
Series exploring the practice of researching family history, one of the UK's most rapidly growing pastimes
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11 episodi
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 the POW f...
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 new found...
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 trace what...
Life in Confinement
What happened to all those ancestors who were "disappeared" into institutions because society couldn't cope with them or deemed their behaviour unacce...
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 we reveal...
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 explores how, th...
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 track dow...
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 Brown, whose...
Radicals and Revolutionaries
This week the popular Radio 4 genealogy show presented by Sally Magnusson features listeners whose ancestors may have been involved in revolution or r...
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 Barratt at...
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 choice or...