Have you ever wondered where you came from, who your ancestors were and what happened to them? If so, come along to BBC Radio Wales's Look Up Your Genes open days where you can meet professional people finder Cat Whiteaway. Cat can answer your questions, offer advice and guidance on how to trace your family tree and point you in the right direction for further information.

"People come along to the open days to find out more about their family history," Cat explains. "Sometimes we find skeletons in the cupboards and find answers to questions that people don't feel they can ask their grandparents' generation or even their parents'.

"One of our biggest successes was helping two sisters find out how their uncle died in the First World War. Up until then the circumstances and whereabouts of his death were unknown to the family."

There will be a series of talks on genealogy as well as displays from family history societies, county archives and local history groups. Visitors can step back in time to the 1940s and experience living history as they talk to members of the Jones family in their wartime kitchen. Food, such as potato scones and carrot cookies, made from rationed wartime ingredients, will be available for sampling from the local WI groups.

If you have a good story to tell about your ancestors, presenter Charlotte Evans, who'll be at the open days, would love to talk to you. She'll be recording interviews for the Look Up Your Genes programmes which will be broadcast on Radio Wales at the end of November.

Admission is free and all visitors will be entered into a competition to win a day's worth of Cat Whiteaway's research know-how into their family history. The winner's story will be featured in the radio programmes.

Other Look Up Your Genes sessions will be held on Saturday, October 18, at Rhyl High School, Rhyl; Saturday, November 8, at The Memorial Hall Theatre, Barry and on Saturday, November 15, at Blackwood Miners' Institute, Blackwood.