Welcome to Reunion: A Podcast About Family History and Why It Matters!
See who our first guest is at the bottom of this post!
Family history is often treated as a record of names and dates. In this series, we take a different approach. We ask what family history can teach us about the past and why it continues to shape the present.
Reunion is sponsored by the Center for Family History and Genealogy and the Family History Program at Brigham Young University, home to the world’s only undergraduate degree in family history. It's hosted by Joseph Stuart and Christopher Jones, assistant professors of history at BYU and faculty in BYU's family history program.
Each episode brings conversations with scholars, educators, and storytellers who use family history to explore questions of religion, race, kinship, and identity. Studying families reveals what mattered most to people in the past and how those values shaped the world we live in now.
Family history opens a way to study memory, emotion, power, and connection. It gives historians a flexible method for understanding slavery and migration, religious conversion, and cultural memory.
This is Reunion. We’re glad you’re here.
About the Newsletter
Alongside the podcast, this newsletter offers episode notes, essays on family history and historical method, and resources for teaching and research. We will include links to podcast episodes, detailed show notes, and additional materials to make your study of family histories deeper and more enjoyable.
Coming on Monday, January 5, 2026
Karin Wulf (website)
Book: Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America
Learn more about the hosts:
Look for podcast subscription links in the next post!