Ask the family

Find out how to bring your ancestors back to life by tracing your family history.

Just another family?

Is your family history full of freak demographics - or commonplace? How typical is your family?

Revealing your roots

History is looking back, and this time...it's personal. Get closer to your genealogy and family history.

Who are you?

How does the history of the family give way to the history of the individual? How do others build their own sense of self? Discover the change and continuity at the heart of family and identity.

Trees on the web

Have you ever wondered about your family tree?  You're in the right place - in front of a computer - to try genealogy.

Click your grandma

Discover how the web helped one woman unravel her family ties.

Your own write

Louise Jameson investigates what really is at the heart of autobiography.

Descending

Patsy Byrne shares the contacts and leads she used exploring her family's genealogy.

Try for yourself

Get a feel for the OU's genealogy course with our  start writing family history sample.