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Professor Kevin Schürer is leading the genealogical study to find descendants of the Plantagenet family Intriguing Networks‘s insight: we were a bit sceptical about this Plantagenet Lineage and how many people actually claim a connection, so delighted to see Uni of Lecister doing such work, how very intriguing, not to mention Dr John Ashdown who… more

A snippet of a connection re New Zealand and Family History whilst we test a new curation tool you might like to take a look at when we post our video later in February 2013. more

Share, Connect, Collaborate and build your knowledge base. Learn and share with others interested iny our subject how to do this easily and securely with the materials to take forward what you learn and experience at your workshop in your Homework pack, available for a half day or 1 day flying start. It’s easy once you know how… more

Don’t Miss it BBC Great British Story a People’s History

Dont miss an intriguing tour 8 episodes of 1 hour the first on early history is on I Player for 4 weeks. Michael Wood’s wonder and passion for sharing this across various community based history projects and connections is quite compelling viewing…take a look more

Mappa Mundi 1300 intact at Hereford Cathedral

An extraordinary and intriguing artefact the Hereford Mappa Mundi dating back to circa 1300 the largest Mappa Mundi still in existence, see video an links to further intriguing resources. more

Livebroadcast from Guild of One Name Studies GOONS2012 Conference more

Power and Politics, what makes a Prime minister, White Heat as a Microcosm of recent social history, have we evolved or is the state of our political elite not really moved on at all…Intriguing Families Power and politics let’s find out more… more

We all find good resources and we all duplicate searching for them, why? In forthcoming versions we will be providing specific feeds and connections than you can register to subscribe to. Here is a start of our Archives and Collections. You can search by key words or browse and navigate via our links and menus,… more

Google Earth is free and downloadable, it is emebedded in this page but will only run and display, if it is installed on your PC. Here we are providing a demonstration sample similar to what we have used at the WDYTYA Live 2012 Show in London. You can download the files and click on the… more

Thanks to all who took time out to come and have a chat and browse at our demos at WDYTYA 2012 and participate in our Warrior the War Horse Free Competition… more

Free Warrior The War Horse Competition @ WDYTYA Live 2012 Show Stand 415

Win tickets to award winning and wildly acclaimed National Theatre’s production of War Horse, Cinema Tickets to the New Speilberg and War Horse inspired Movie or a great hardback or Kindle edition of Warrior the Amazing Story of a Real War Horse…for another episode of Intriguing History click here more

Visualising history before and after technology John Snow, Florence Nightingale and Professor Rosling’s intriguing connections….all shared the same belief in the power of visualisation. Examples of visualising history and how it may inform the research and development of a toolkit for family social and local historians or those with a special interest project or collection they are researching and studying. more

What do maps do? Why are they important in history projects? How can you Map your history and how will this process help you make new connections and gain new insights…for your family, social, local or special interest history project. more

Life events and data tags supported in the Gedcom file format determine what data you can extract from your family tree files, here are the standard tags established and supported in version 5.5 of the standard.This useful lists gives you an overview to the art of the possible for family tree data that might be creatively redeployed using different tools than just a timeline or hierarchical family tree… more

Specialist resources for you and your history project, curated collections and archives, catalogued and focused on our historical themes, mapping resources, tools and techniques for family, social, local and special interest history projects. Collaborative tools and techniques to collect, curate, share,research and analyse your historical data and the ability to build your own rubic cube of historical data. Find out more and register for free email updates… more

Conumdrums to ponder and help resolve…feedback ideas and suggestions, demos to convert to online videos, more to come from Intriguing History, Resources and some Intriguing Mapping tools n the making, we will be rolling out additional resources post WDYTYA and thanks to all who attended…. more

New Ancestry Website

Is the New and major Ancestry upgrade more like colourful building blocks we all treasured as kids, or more like a battleship grey but none less popular Aeroplane kit, less creative and more prescriptive? Take a look a this excellent new interface and find out how together we might take a fresh look at our toolkit and resources for family history spurred on by this latest competitive leap by Ancestry.

The English Accent and Family History

What English accent did your ancestors speak with back in Elizabethan England? You might be surprised to learn that an American reciting Shakespeare is nearer to the mark than you or I.

Scotland’s Valuation Rolls

The 1925 Valuation Rolls for Scotland have just been launched by Scotland’s People and are free to search.

People of Northern England Database

The People of Northern England (PONE) database is not new but not much heard about either. This database is of the people in the Northern counties of Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland from the C13th. It is drawn from two types of material, one financial and one legal. The financial material is drawn from the pipe…

History Pin WWI Hub

Use the History Pin WWI Hub to share your WWI project and let others connect with what you are doing. Your project may be large or small but by sharing it, many more people will be able to make links and connections with you.

Mapping the London Blitz

Mapping the London Blitz is a great project which has used the collated and mapped all the census material of all the bombs dropped during the Blitz 1940 – 1941. It is a fascinating resource for family historians with a connection to WWII.

Red Cross POW Records

The Red Cross POW records are now digitized and available online to search. For many family historians these records complete the story of their ancestors who served in WWI.

New DNA Studies

A new study of European DNA has revealed a third population group that make up the DNA of modern Europeans.

WW1 Postcards

WW1 Postcards a rich resource and a visual opportunity, find out how to discover and use the 20K plus postcards on Europeana for the period 1914-1918 and muse over how you might dig-out what ephemera you might have in your loft or research boxes that might help you and others connect and make that next step n researching your project wehther for your family history social, local or special interest project. In the first year of the 100th centenary of WW1 will there ever be such an opportunity to explore and discover what happened and better understand those momentous events?

Operation War Diary

Operation War Diary is a crowd sourced project to classify the WWI diaries of the British Army on the Western Front. A project involving the Imperial War Museum and the National Archive.

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