Charlie Greene from Remento chats with the Genealogy Guy

06/01/25 • 30 min

Armchair Genealogy - Family Tree & History

The Genealogy guy chats with Charlie Greene, co-founder of Remento, chats about the inspiration that led to the platform, which helps families capture and preserve stories and memories. Charlie shares his personal experience of digitising home videos to keep his father's memory alive and the emotional impact of recording his mother's stories during her battle with cancer. Remento simplifies the process of documenting family stories, using AI to convert recordings into polished narratives, and offers a customizable book format. The platform also integrates with Legacy Box for digitising old photos. Charlie emphasises the importance of capturing family stories now for future generations.

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Mark Bayley chats with the genealogy Guy about updates on maps @ thegenealogist.co.uk

Mark Bayley from TheGenealogist.co.uk discusses updates to their Map Explorer section, highlighting the expansion of the Lloyd George Domesday records to include Bedfordshire, Dorset, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Northamptonshire, Surrey, and Wiltshire, with more counties planned for 2026. He explained the historical context of these records, created by David Lloyd George in 1910 for taxation purposes. He also mentions the addition of military records, including the War Office 164 records, and the development of a new advanced search interface with phonetic filtering and advanced keywords. Also offers an exclusive special offer for Armchair Genealogy podcast listeners, which includes a 40% lifetime discount on a Diamond subscription and a year's free subscription to "Discover Your Ancestors "online magazine.