You can also download them and many other interesting genealogy podcasts from iTunes, no charge. On Nov 13, 2007 3:00 PM, John Ball <john@jlb2005.plus.com> wrote: > Dear Listers > > Some of you may know that The National Archives at Kew offers regular talks > on various aspects of family history. Unfortunately, most of us cannot > easily get to Kew in person, but a few days ago, I discovered from another > mailing list that all these talks have been recorded and are now available > free, on-line, as 'podcasts' on TNA's website. > The podcasts are in sound only, so we do not benefit from any visual aids > the speaker may have used. Nevertheless, the podcasts are a wonderful > resource, and assuming you have a broadband connection, the mp3 files are > very easy to listen to. > > Simply go to www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/rss/podcasts.xml and click on the > topic(s) of your choice. I've reproduced the full list of topics below, with > those I feel are most relevant to family history in the top half of the > list. > > Modern Sources for Immigration > Modern Sources for Immigration - part 2 > Army deaths, marriages and births 1761-1913 > Sources for First World War army ancestry > Tracing your Irish ancestors at The National Archives > Finding Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths > Sex, Lies & Civil Registration talk > In the name of God, Amen: wills for family history > Jermynology: how genealogy can change history > Workhouse records for family historians > Sources and resources at the Family Records Centre > Marriages at sea - fact or fiction? > Tracing births and deaths at sea > Creating a legacy from your family history > What at first was plunder: tracing records of excisemen > Colin Jackson: my journey into the past > > >From Magna Carta to the Parliamentary State: the fine rolls of King Henry > III 1216-1272 > Medieval Criminals and the Law > King John and Magna Carta > Henry VIII: dynasty and power in tudor England > 'In Deadly Hate?' Richard III and the wars of the roses > The creation of the Iraqi state: 1914 to 1974 > Star Chamber Stories: using records of the early modern equity courts > Going, Going, Almost Gone: the vanishing face of the traditional English pub > Was the Cromwellian Protectorate a military dictatorship? > The dichotomies of drink > Sahib, the British soldier in India, 1750 - 1914 > Inventions in eighteenth century Britain > > Using the Internet Explorer web browser I found it is possible to save any > of the podcasts to my computer by right-clicking on its mp3 file link > (alongside the headphones icon) and selecting the "Save target as..." > option. Unfortunately, when I tried using the Firefox browser the mp3 file > links did not appear, so I was unable to save the files. > > > Kind regards, > > John > -------------------- > John Ball, Godre'r Graig, near Swansea, Wales, UK > E-mail: john@jlb2005.plus.com > John's Homepage: http://www.jlb2005.plus.com/ > Images of Wales: http://www.jlb2005.plus.com/walespic/ > Welsh Family History Archive: http://www.jlb2005.plus.com/wales/ > > GENUKI Breconshire Maintainer: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/BRE/ > Joint Administrator - Powys (& BRE/MGY/RAD) RootsWeb mailing lists > > > =================== > Visit the Powys Mailing List webpage at: www.jlb2005.plus.com/powyslist.htm > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to POWYS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >