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