Welcome to Search My Past

Lecturing, talks and workshops

international speaker

• adoption issues
  

• diaspora

• ethics

• black British family history

• the psycholoy of searching

• Irish heritage

Recent lectures:

‘The Psychology of Searching’ APG Professional Management Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

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‘Black British family history research and the transatlantic slave trade’ Secret Lives, Hidden Voices of our Ancestors Conference, AGRA, GOONS, Halsted & Society of Genealogists, Leicester

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'Ethical dilemmas in adoption research' Society of Genealogists

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‘Searching for Ancestors when you’re adopted’ Merthyr Tydfil FHS

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‘Ethical Dilemmas in Genealogy’, East London Family History Society

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‘Hidden Ethnicities in Black British Heritage’ Wiltshire Family History Society

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‘Black British family history research’ Birmingham FHS, 17 November

Forthcoming lectures in 2019:

‘Mixing DNA results with a paper trail’ Bath FHS, 28 January

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‘Adoption issues’, Alton HGS Family

History Group, 11 March

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‘The Psychology of Searching and Ethical Dilemmas in Genealogy’, Guild of One Name Studies Conference, Leicester, 30 March

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'Ethical Dilemmas in Genealogy', Family Tree Live, Alexandra Palace, London