Here is the monthly podcast for genealogists with too much time on their hands. This month is the first of three episode which draw out the benefit for family tree hunters from the financial comings and goings of some troubled years in medieval English

Episode 49 of the monthly podcast for genealogists with too much time on their hands. The story of three Australian brothers whose grandmother emigrated from West Wratting in Cambridgeshire not only pays tribute to these young men (only one of the three came back from the Great War, and he suffered as a PoW) but also demonstrates how readily available sources of local history reveal a greater depth to stories of emigration in the 19th Century.

Episode 48 of Talk Genealogy, the podcast for genealogists with too much time on their hands, discusses making the most of meagre information about an ancestor. A family history of the Hawkins family and the design of Tudor farm houses are used to illustrate the technique