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And I'm delighted today to be joined by The Times and Sunday Times, London editor, Andy Sylvester,

and also by Laura House, an ancestry genealogist.

Now, thank you both very much indeed for taking the time to join me today.

So, Laura, can I start with you?

Can you tell us how you got into what you're doing now?

And was it something that you'd

always been fascinated by? Yeah, absolutely. When I was a kid growing up, I was always interested

in family history, but it was one of those things where you just don't really know where to start.

And then when I was a student, when I was doing my undergrad,

I used to stay up all night doing anything except my coursework.

And one night I was staying up all night, I was sitting in my room,

and I was thinking about how much I'd always wanted to do a family tree.

And I'd always been familiar with ancestry as a concept, but I'd never gone on the

website and suddenly it occurred to me that I was a grown adult. And actually, if I wanted to go on

ancestry, I could go on ancestry. So I made an account that night. And I spent all night putting

everything I could remember about my family into my ancestry tree. And then, and that wasn't

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