Category: Emigration
A list of episodes of The Family Histories Podcast discussing emigration and researching the movement of people (sometimes involuntarily) from one country to another within family history.
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S11EP06 – ‘The Incarcerated’ with Tamiko Nimura
Host Andrew meets author Tamiko Nimura and hears about how the US concentration camps affected her family during World War Two.
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S11EP05 – ‘The Debtor’ with Andrew Redfern
Host Andrew meets Australian genealogist and tech fan, Andrew Redfern and hears about a man who ends up living a secret life in Australia.
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S10EP06 – ‘The Physician’ with Simon Young
Host Andrew meets New Zealand-based genealogist Simon Young and hears about a physician who helped to inspire the story of Frankenstein.
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S09EP01 – ‘The Secretive’ with Ron Williams
Andrew meets Canadian genealogist and author Ron Williams and hears about a man who lived a secret life for 57 years, and used an alias.
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S08EP06 – “The Homesick” with Jennifer Jones
Host Andrew meets Australian genealogist Jennifer Jones and hears about a homesick man, and asks for help to find a Captain’s origins.
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S06EP06 – ‘The Runaway’ with Teresa Vega
Andrew meets family historian Teresa Vega and hears how her runaway ancestor, and is on the trail of a man’s mysterious origins in 19th Century Manhattan.
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S05EP05: ‘The Constable’ with Fiona Brooker
Andrew meets New Zealander professional genealogist Fiona Brooker, hears about an emigrating policeman, and goes looking for a 19th century woman’s birth and parents.
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S05EP03: ‘The Missionary’ with Kim Brengle
A British couple meet and marry in Lebanon and go on to set up an orphanage, and DNA results add confusion in the hunt for a woman from Michigan.
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S03EP03: ‘The Emigrant’ with Helen Parker-Drabble
Andrew meets ‘geneatherapist’ and author Helen Parker-Drabble to explore how she combines psychology and research, we’ll be hearing about her emigrant Grandfather, and we’ll be trying to solve a vaccination card conundrum.
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S03EP01: ‘The Benefactor’ with Denise Geelhart
Series Three begins with Andrew meeting genealogist and true crime fan Denise Geelhart, who talks about her German ancestor who came to the USA, and we try to solve a DNA mystery of a 19th century woman in Tennessee.
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S01EP07: ‘The Activist’ with Pam Smith
Host Andrew Martin meets Pam Smith to find out how she got into researching local history, we meet her activist relative, and go on the search for a 17th century Knight.
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S01EP04: ‘The Entrepreneur’ with Lisa Louise Cooke
Lisa Louise Cooke joins Andrew to reveal how she got hooked on family history, to tell the story of Harry Cooke, and to get help in finding Gustaf Sporowski from East Prussia.