Kimberly McLaughlin & Laura Ireland - Music by Andrew Mclaughlin
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We deep dive into our family histories and discoveries. Dates and places are just the facts - we found out who Hazel was. And then there's DNA.... Please join us each week as we continue to explore the stories of ancestors near and far.
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A grave marker sends the hosts from late snow into cemetery research and the unease of online memorials.
Chasing Hazel's Tales opens in a spring that still feels tentative, with a correction about the Dutch church in Sleepy Hollow before settling into cemetery research.
A loose family-history chat that settles into Maine sunshine, Hazel, and a well-sourced Katahdin book.
Chasing Hazel's Tales returns from summer break with an unhurried family-history conversation shaped by Maine weather and the first week of September sunshine.
Saved letters, an uncertain birthplace, and an adopted family story with more tension than a simple recap.
After a couple of weeks off for technical difficulties and illness, Kim McLaughlin and Laura Ireland return to Chasing Hazel's Tales and settle back into family history with an easy, steady rhythm.
A conversational family-history episode that traces Pam's disappearance through DNA, memory, and a gradually unfolding trail.
The episode follows a family-history thread through Pam's disappearance and the later discovery of skeletal remains, with DNA and remembered details keeping the account anchored.
A Maine family line opens into records, traditions, and the careful work of sorting what can be proved.
The episode follows the family history of Thelma Persis Haskell, and the best moments come when Kim McLaughlin and Laura Ireland treat the York and Clark lines as something to check against records, not just repeat.
A life is pieced together from the papers it left behind.
Carl Lang’s story is built from what survives: letters, a note to a judge about an overload of white birch, and the family memories that gather around them. The sisters handle those scraps carefully, asking what can actually be proved and letting the evidence carry the weight.
A wandering family-history search that keeps circling General Johnny Burgoyne and the research behind him.
This episode follows General Johnny Burgoyne through a family-history investigation shaped by 35 years of research, family lore, and the letters and stories that keep pulling the hosts back to the same name.
A Sleepy Hollow walk turns a grave marker into the sharpest history in the episode.
Kim and Laura turn a Sleepy Hollow weekend into a good family-history ramble, with Halloween timing, a mascot joke, and just enough headless-horseman anxiety to keep it moving.
Anna Martin interviews writers and couples about the real stories behind Modern Love essays.
Knox and Jamie turn celebrity gossip, film deep dives, and streaming news into weekly comedy.
Two hosts revisit one film, show, or book a week, plus long personal tangents.
A Brazilian journalist spends years reinvestigating unsolved child disappearances in Paraná.
Cris Bartz and Juva Lauer alternate debate and interview episodes on Brazilian social issues.
Robert Wright interviews specialists on Iran, Gaza, Ukraine, Taiwan, and open-source AI.
Sisters and family historians Kim and Laura share discoveries from researching their Dutch ancestry in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
Sisters Kim and Laura discuss recent updates to DNA ethnicity estimates from services like Ancestry, then share their excitement and research as they plan a trip to Sleepy Hollow, New York, to visit the ancestral lands and graves of their Dutch colonial relatives, connecting family history to local folklore.
The hosts return to discuss their family history podcast, focusing on Uncle Carl Laing who preserved decades of family correspondence.
Chasing Hazel's Tales stays close to Thelma Persis Haskell's family lines.
Kim and Laura put General Johnny Burgoyne at the center of a family-history search.
Spring opens the hour.
Kim and Laura start with an apology.
Kim and Laura keep digging into General Johnny Burgoyne and whether their family is actually connected to him.
Kim and Laura open with a follow-up from Kim's recent guest appearance on Italian Roots and Genealogy with Bob Sorrentino.
Chasing Hazel's Tales opens after a summer hold with first-week-of-September sunshine in Maine.
Kim and Laura stay with the Burgoyne line.
Hosts Kim and Laura recount their trip to Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown, New York, blending family history research with experiencing local Halloween festivities.
Two family historians explore the life of Carl Lang through the documents he saved his entire life, revealing his late adoption, 70-year marriage with daily correspondence, Purple Heart military service, and unexpected funeral home career.