The Family Histories Podcast

Updated: 19 Nov 2024 • 68 episodes
familyhistoriespodcast.com

The Family Histories Podcast is a show that celebrates those of us sat in archives, libraries, and spare bedrooms all around the world, tirelessly piecing together our collective social and family history. Join author and family historian Andrew Martin as he interviews a fellow genealogy addict about how they got hooked; listen to his guest tell the life story of their most fascinatingly good, bad, or plain ugly relative; and then it's time to face 'The Brick Wall' - where it's over to the listeners to see if they can help solve their family history puzzle. As a parting gift, Andrew offers each guest a surprise that no family history fan could possibly turn down.... a trip in his secret time machine. Find out more at: familyhistoriespodcast.com  Twitter: @FamilyHistPod  Instagram: @FamilyHistPod  Facebook: TheFamilyHistoriesPodcast

Show episodes

It"s a special delivery in today"s episode from Series Eight, as host Andrew Martin meets family history and military history researcher, champion eBayer, and postman, Adam Simpson-York. Andrew finds out how Adam got hooked on researching family history, how he has honed his research skills that enable him to buy famil

39 min
00:00
39:17
No file found

Andrew meets genealogist and Chair of the Register of Qualified Genealogists, Sylvia Valentine. He hears about how she got hooked on researching family history, her love of life-long learning and research, and her opinions on the terrifying workhouses! THE LIFE STORY - NAOMI HAWARTH Sylvia has chosen to tell the life s

49 min
00:00
49:49
No file found

In this first episode of Series Eight of The Family Histories Podcast, host Andrew Martin meets author, family historian, and the host of the Italian Roots and Genealogy YouTube series and podcast - Bob Sorrentino, and finds out about his Italian-American roots, and his connections to Italian and the wider European nob

32 min
00:00
32:28
No file found
02 Nov 2024 • EN

Series Eight Trailer

Our Eighth Series is here! But, before the first full episode arrives on 5th November 2024, there"s just enough time for Andrew to pop back to compare notes with an old friend... In this new series we"ll meet a Marchioness, a Twin, a "Nightingale", a Marine, a Nationalist, a Collier, and a homesick migrant. Read more a

2 min
00:00
02:59
No file found

It"s our 50th guest episode! So, to celebrate this special milestone episode, host Andrew Martin decides to head to the Society of Genealogists to meet three guests taking part in the annual All About That Place event. However, he doesn"t quite end up where he expected... All About That Place is a series of talks broug

31 min
00:00
31:33
No file found

This is a Series Seven Bonus Episode, following on immediately from the previous episode "The Sailor" with Morag Peers. When two children inexplicably appear, host Andrew Martin and guest Morag Peers realise that the (shh: secret time) machine has moved time and location, and that they are now part of one of history"s

6 min
00:00
06:17
No file found