Tune in to this week’s Family Tree Talk, with podcast cohosts Nathan Ward and Helen Tovey, as they start a new season of research and reflect on the new AI tool from Findmypast. Studying historic records, it builds a network of each soldier’s home life, communities, fellow brothers-in-arms and more - which helps remember and tell the stories of those who died in WWI (https://www.family-tree.co.uk/content-library/how-to-use-findmypast/). Think FAN network research, fast-tracked with the aid of judicious machine learning.

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Tune in to this week’s Family Tree Talk with podcast cohosts Nathan Ward and Helen Tovey. As we’ve mentioned a few times, back in autumn 2024 Nathan took a DNA test, wishing to prove his Viking origins. Any thoughts of censuses and even building a family tree hadn’t entered his head. Two years on, what has he learned? And what are the ways in which family history can change you? To celebrate the 100th episode – and to thank you for listening – we have a celebratory prize draw. To enter click here. https://familytr.ee/podcast-prizes

This week in Family Tree Talk it’s all going on for podcast cohost Nathan Ward who stumbles upon another pair of records relating to a pair of brothers who, it seems, may have led one another astray – and been duly sentenced for it. Plus he finds himself whizzing forwards in time, tracing a many times great-aunt who was still alive when he was a lad… if only he’d known. And he continues his quest to find those missing Hearns & Things. Tune in with cohost Helen Tovey to learn more about his latest discoveries