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Journeys into Genealogy podcast

Welcome to the Journeys into Genealogy podcast.

I'm Emma Cox and I've setup this podcast to help anyone interested in finding more about their ancestors.

Topics and Interviews include:

  • Tips for getting started with researching your family history
  • Recording stories
  • Researching in archives
  • The benefits of joining a local family history society
  • The Huguenot Society
  • The Huguenots of Spitalfields charity
  • Reading old handwriting and interpreting wills
  • DNA testing and what you need to be aware of
  • One Name Studies
  • Writing your family’s story
  • Online resources including Ancestry and the British Newspaper Archive
  • The Mayflower Voyages of the 1620s
  • Inherited emotions
  • Dealing with inherited family trauma

If there is a particular topic you would like to hear more about or a person you would like me to interview please email hello@journeysintogenealogy.co.uk

I am looking forward to our journeys together.

Bye for now

Emma

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"Dearest Clara" family letters with Gail Zona

Mar 26, 2026

Life for women in 19th century USA was not easy. Gail Zona has transcribed family letters and turned them into a book "Dearest Clara". We talk about the letters themselves, the writers (her 2 x great grandmother Nell Nichols and sisters Clara and Alice, the life they lived (a hard and quite restrictive one) and the...

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Researching Danish Ancestors with Lene Kottal

Mar 12, 2026

Lene Kottal and I talk about unique Danish records, naming conventions, spelling, censuses, military records, wills, estate administration, Danish history, the Danish National Archives, emigration and much more. 

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