Dr Dean Kirby is an award-winning journalist, an urban historian and a professional genealogist who helped archaeologists unearth the site of his ancestor's home in a former Victorian slum.
In this new family history talk, family historians will learn how to use open-source intelligence (OSINT) techniques normally used by journalists and human rights investigators to locate their ancestors' inner-city Victorian homes - even when they have been demolished in slum clearances.
The talk will cover skills and tips including:
- What OSINT means and how it can be applied to family history.
- How to gather evidence about a property's location, including thinking differently about the census.
- How to map house numbers and find how properties were constructed.
- How to find and use aerial photographs.
- How to locate an ancestor's house in the modern city using satellites and other tools.
- A real world example of how Dean used the techniques to map his Irish ancestor's house in a Manchester slum before the site was dug up by archaeologists.
Dean also provides a professional family history research services for people searching for their Manchester ancestors at www.manchesterfamilyhistory.com. For more family history research tips, subscribe to www.manchesterhistory.uk.
To check out my other family history workshops and tours, visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/dean-kirby-69491628983
