Learn family history from the experts through new video training website

Family History TV is a new website which promises to be the place to watch expert speakers from the world of British genealogy, military history, DNA, house history and social history deliver their informative and entertaining talks online. This new and reasonably priced service aims to open up these talks to a wider audience.

Ranging from a behind the scenes look at the Who Do You Think You Are? TV show, or advice and guidance once you have your DNA results, this channel offers videos to suit most family historians. If you are seeking advice on researching your ancestors, or would like to find out more about social history, there are videos from some of the best speakers who normally talk to packed theatres.

Family History TV features a military expert and professional researcher drawing on his years of experience from researching thousands of soldiers to explore what can be found when looking for a military ancestor. There are talks from an experienced social historian exploring the records that shine a light on sporting ancestors, a well respected professional genealogist and house historian gives you her valuable advice, and top DNA experts share their extensive knowledge of this popular subject. Many of the speakers can also be seen at the Family History Show this month.

With even more genealogical themed presentations to be released in the next few months, each talk has been professionally edited into a high quality video that can be rented for the very attractive low price of just £2.99 and then watched for the next 24 hours.

Take a look at the high quality content available and as a special introductory offer watch Keith Gregson’s Hints and Tips video for free at family-history.tv

Travel in time through map-linked image archive

TheGenealogist has added a unique new feature which makes its Map Explorer resource even more appealing for family historians.

Already boasting georeferenced historical and modern maps, tithe records and maps to look for your Victorian ancestors’ homes, Lloyd George Domesday Records and Maps for nearly one million individuals, headstones and war memorials, the mapping interface now also allows TheGenealogist’s Diamond subscribers the ability to also see what their ancestors’ towns and areas once looked like. With the addition of these period photographs of street scenes and parish churches where researchers’ ancestors may have been baptised, married and buried, this new feature allows subscribers to jump back in time.

This release sees the ever-multiplying collection of historical photographs from TheGenealogist’s extensive Image Archive accessible for the first time from inside Map Explorer as a record set layer. The various images for an area have their locations pinpointed on the maps allowing family historians to explore their ancestors’ hometowns and other landmarks from around their area.

When viewing an Image Archive record in TheGenealogist’s Map Explorer, the family history researcher is shown the image’s location on the map as well as from the point of view the photographer used to take the photo. Also included underneath the historical image is a modern map and street view (where available) so that anyone researching their past family’s area is able to compare the picture from the past with how the area looks today.

Watch this short video to learn more about this great new feature here .