The Talk Genealogy Podcast
Episodes
9 episodes
How Captain Cook helps Family History
Captain Cook's life provides insights in how we can trace how things were for our great grandparents. This is the podcast for the genealogist with too much time on their hands.
Where there is trust - there is use.
In the spring of 1481, four men of the same Norfolk surname—Robert Tassell of Buckton, Robert Tassell of Foulden, Henry Tassell, and William Tassell—stood together to convey a messuage and land in Buckton to two trusted figures: Maste...
Bonus Episode! Three houses important for genealogists
A look at three houses which witnessed developments in the study of genealogy
Evaluating Parish Registers
The episode looks at the four distinct periods in the history of parish registers and attempts to unpick what was going on, how that development (or lack of development) could influence how the registers were kept and what that means for how we...
Bonus Episode! Common Recovery and Deed Terminology
A short discussion explaining Common Recovery and Entail. We also define four terms often used in property transfer. And then there is a brief nod towards Adventures in Genealogy. It is all over very quickly with no trimmings and ve...
Street and Trade Directorues
On 4th December 2019 at Bonham's Book Auction in Knightsbridge, London, a copy of a book bound in red morocco gilt by Riviere and Son, which would have enhanced its auction value, was sold for £4,437.50. Some people say that if a similar item c...
Pedigree Hearsay
Today we're talking about pedigree hearsay and the genealogist's evidence toolbox. Tonight's episode falls back on the old pedigree hearsay doctrine to answer a few practical questions. When family history is preserved in stories, Bible entries...
Ethel Stokes
Ethel Stokes was a woman whose quiet, determined labour shaped the archival landscape that historians, genealogists and local researchers depend on today. Her work was practical, unsentimental and profoundly influential, and it continues to ben...
Family History in the Rubbish Dump
Today we're looking at one of the most ordinary features in any historic domestic plot—a feature that most families never thought about twice. It rarely appears in documents and rarely survives in memory, yet it can tell you more about daily li...