About this episode

Host Andrew Martin interviews Ulysses Swanson about his family history journey and project on transgender ancestors.

Message us. For our third episode of Season Eleven, host Andrew Martin meets public historian and family historian Ulysses Swanson, and hears about his family history journey, his use of Wikitree, and his project Transgender Ancestors - tracing the lives and family histories of gender nonconforming people from the 1840s to the 1940s. THE LIFE STORY - EDGAR WALES BURNHAM Ulysses has chosen to tell the life story of organist Edgar Wales Burnham who was born in 1841 in Woodstock, Vermont, USA, a...

People in this episode

Host: Andrew Martin

Guest: Ulysses Swanson

Topics covered

• family history
• public history
• gender nonconforming
• 19th century history
• historical research

Keywords

• family history
• Ulysses Swanson
• Wikitree
• Transgender Ancestors
• Edgar Wales Burnham
• gender nonconforming
• historical research

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wikitree, Transgender Ancestors

Places: Woodstock, Vermont, USA

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