‘However we interpret it, there is nothing surer than that history has as much to do with the present as the past.’
Kildonan Museum, South Uist
Family Tree Live Early Twentieth Century Family History: sources for tracing English families AND Workshop: Tips for reading Victorian handwriting
The Genealogy Show A to Z of Family History: an alphabetical journey through some less well known sources AND 10 Steps to a One-place Study: Putting Your Ancestors in their Place 2021 Get ’em young: ideas for involving young people in family history and heritage AND Surname Studies – the why, the how and much more! (with Jill Ball and Kirsty Gray) 2019
RootsTech London 2019 Remember Then: memories of 1946-1969 and how to write your own
Virtual RootsTech 2021 and 2022.
RootsTech 2024 Tracing your Marginalised Ancestors in Britain AND London Calling: top websites for those researching in London available at RootsTech
Who Do You Think You Are? Live, Olympia/NEC Birmingham – Harnessing the Facebook Generation 2012. A to Z of Family History: an alphabetical journey through some less well known sources AND Putting Your Ancestors in their Place: sources for reconstructing nineteenth century communities 2014. Are you Sitting Comfortably?: creating your family’s story AND Families in Context: researching your English ancestors and their communities in the early twentieth century 2015. Besoms, Battledores, Bedsteads and Bum Rolls: the Tudor Housewife 2016. Give me a child until they are seven: young children and family history AND The Ones that got Away: tracing elusive English ancestors 2017
8th Unlock the Past Cruise to the Baltic 2015 – various topics
14th Unlock the Past Cruise to Alaska 2018 Toleration or Turmoil?: English non-conformity and our ancestors; Madness, Mania and Melancholia: the mental health of our ancestors AND Harnessing the Facebook Generation: encouraging young people to take an interest in history and heritage
16th Unlock the Past Cruise to the Mediterranean 2019 Writing up your Family History workshops AND Coffers, Clysters, Comfrey and Coifs: the lives of our seventeenth ancestors AND From Darlington to Wellington: the sad story of Isabella Fry AND Remember Then: memories of 1946-1969 and how to write your own AND Milkmaids, Munitions Workers, Milliners and Match Girls: women at work.
The Really Useful Show 2021 Victorians to Elizabethans: tracing your English ancestors in the twentieth century and 2022
Keynote Speaker at New Zealand Society of Genealogists’ conference 2019, Christchurch, New Zealand – various topics
Family History Down Under 2021 Our Embarrassing Ancestors AND A to Z of Family History AND Embarrassing Ancestors
British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa Annual Conference – Faith, Fish, Farm or Family?: motivations for emigration from North Devon to Canada 2014 and 2022. Harnessing the Facebook Generation AND Putting your Ancestors in their Place: 10 steps to a one place study 2015
35th International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences 2022 The Family History Revolution
Halsted Trust Conference: Exodus Movement of the People 2013 – Faith, Fish, Farm or Family?: motivations for emigration from North Devon 1830-1900
Halsted Trust Conference: Secret Lives 2018 – Occupational Hazards: the working lives of our ancestors
Talking Family History (New Zealand) online presentation 2020 Sons of the Soil: tracing your agricultural labouring ancestors
THE Genealogy Show 2021 A to Z of Family History AND 10 Steps to a One-place Study
The Society of Australian Genealogists webinars – Putting Your Ancestors in their Place: ten steps to a one place study AND ’Til Death Us Do Part: a look at the history of medicine 1300-1948
Queensland Genealogical Society webinar – Setting your Family in its Domestic Context
Prince Edward Island Genealogical Society, Canada – Farm, Fish, Faith or Family?: the role of the Bible Christians in migration from North Devon to Canada
Society of Genealogists workshops – including The Burning Time: witchcraft in the seventeenth century AND Researching your Ancestors and their Communities in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century AND Coffers, Cauldrons, Comfrey and Coifs
Ontario Genealogy Society Annual Conference – Uproar and Disorder: the Bible Christians of North Devon and their impact upon nineteenth century Canada AND Putting Your Ancestors in their Place: an introduction to one-place studies
Ontario Genealogical Society webinars – A to Z of Family History: an alphabetical journey through some less well known British sources AND ’Til Death Us Do Part: a look at the history of medicine 1300-1948
Channel Islands Family History Society – Are you Sitting Comfortably: creating your family’s story
Exmouth Community College – 2 day Beginners’ Family History Course
Guild of One Name Studies Annual Conference – Putting your Ancestors in their place: reconstructing Victorian communities AND 30 Years and Still a One Name Society AND Following One-Name Around the World: tracking emigrants and immigrants
The Devonshire Association, Exeter – Uproar and Disorder: the impact of non-conformity on parishes in North Devon, The Civil War in the South West AND Putting our Ancestors in their place: reconstructing Victorian communities
Cleveland Family History Society Family History Day – Sense and the Census AND Cauldrons, Comfits, Caudle and Coffins: Seventeenth Century Food and Drink
Cornwall Family History Society Annual Conference – Putting our Ancestors in their place: reconstructing Victorian communities
Devon Family History Society Summer Special Conference – Faith, Fish, Farm or Family: motivations for emigration from Devon 1830-1900 AND How our Ancestors would have Died
Isle of Wight Family History Society Annual Conference – Island Bound: migrants to the Isle of Wight AND Besoms, Battledores, Bedsteads and Bum Rolls: the role of women in the seventeenth century AND Milkmaids, Munitions Workers, Milliners and Match Girls: women at work
Dorset Family History Society – Early Twentieth Century Family History: sources for tracing English families
Devon Rural Archive – Tulips, Topiary, Tradescanth and Thyme: seventeenth century gardens
Lincolnshire Family History Society Annual General Meeting – Coffers, Clysters, Comfrey and Coifs: the lives of our seventeenth ancestors
North Armagh Family History Society – Ten Steps to a One-place Study
Sheffield and District Family History Society – Coffers, Clysters, Comfrey and Coifs: the lives of our seventeenth ancestors
Northamptonshire Family History Society 40th Anniversary Conference – Ducking Stools, Dissenters, Debtors and Drunks: crime and punishment in the seventeenth century
West Surrey Family History Society – ‘Til Death us do Part
Buckinghamshire Family History Society – Who lived in Cottages like these? tracing the history of your house AND Harnessing the Facebook Generation
Weston Super Mare Family History Society – Coffers, Clysters, Comfrey and Coifs: the lives of our seventeenth ancestors AND From Darlington to Wellington: the sad story of Isabella Fry AND A ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ Story AND ’Til Death Us Do Part: a look at the history of medicine 1300-1948
Somerset and Dorset Family History Society Annual Conference – How our Ancestors would have Died AND How we used to Live 1851
Buckland Brewer Gardeners’ Club – From the Herb Garden of Mistress Agnes
Devon Family History Society – One day course Are you Sitting Comfortably? writing up your family history. One day course Tracing your Ancestors and their Communities in the early Twentieth Century. Two day course Finding Your Family.
‘History is who we are and why we are the way we are’ David McCullough
The History Interpreter - Janet Few 