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First broadcast in 2007, BBC Radio 4’s Tracing Your Roots both highlighted fascinating stories and offered practical advice to those exploring their family histories. Presented by Sally Magnusson and Nick Barratt, it ran until 2011 and there are 16 episodes available to stream or download via BBC Sounds. Explore programmes devoted to such subjects as what you can learn about a single street from the census and, that most frustrating of brick walls, forebears who vanish without trace. whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com