WHO WE ARE
Our team has many years' professional experience of all sorts of research, genealogy and people-finding. We've researched and made your favourite genealogy and history TV programmes, such as Who Do You Think You Are? and A House Through Time, and we're passionate about uncovering the hidden histories of families, houses and institutions - which are every bit as fascinating as the well-known tales of the rich and famous. We'll use the historical detective skills we've developed in our TV careers to uncover how your ancestors lived, and reveal the untold story of your family’s history – or uncover the history of your house or business.
The main focus of our work involves original research for private clients, production companies and homeowners to provide research reports, family trees and bespoke house histories. We undertake research using original historical documents, online sources, and on location at a range of national libraries and archives, such as the British Library, The National Archives, London Metropolitan Archives, Society of Genealogists, The Imperial War Museum and at smaller regional archives.
Jonathan Rowlands
Jonathan is a TV producer, director, and historian who has undertaken extensive family history research for private individuals and for TV projects, researching multiple series of BBC series Who Do You Think You Are? and The Secret History of Our Streets. Jonathan has also traced the histories of numerous properties and their residents, playing a key role in the research, development, and production of all five series of A House Through Time.
Jonathan has also collaborated with authors to research and develop several history books and has written articles for Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine. He has an MA in History from Queen Mary, University of London, and loves the challenge of uncovering what lies behind a good family mystery.
Kat Feavers’ obsession with genealogy started as a teenager with a photograph of her great great grandfather and an inescapable curiosity. Now as a TV producer she specialises in history programming and has a particular interest in finding the personal stories which can make the bigger picture history more relatable.
Kat has played a key role in the research, development, and production of all five series of A House Through Time (BBC 2). She believes that genealogy and house histories are more than lists of names, dates and occupations and will use all of the sources available to her to try and draw their stories together. She is the British Newspaper Archive’s number one fan.
Lauren Bennie is a TV Producer with over 10 years’ experience making Britain’s best loved history programmes and researching the family history of private individuals.
She helped to develop the original series of the BBC’s A House Through Time, and has researched the houses on each series since. She has worked on Who Do You Think You Are?, as well as a host of other popular history documentaries.
Lauren has a degree in History and French from the University of Edinburgh and loves delving into the lives of people in the past, with a particular penchant for rooting around in archives up and down the country.