Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries by Ruth A Symes

Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries by Ruth A Symes

The intriguing characters in these real family history mysteries include an agricultural labourer who left secrets behind in Somerset when he migrated to Manchester, a working-class woman who bafflingly lost ten of her fourteen children in infancy, a miner who purportedly went to 'live with the Red Indians' and a merchant prince of the Empire who was rumoured to have two wives. This book shows how a variety of sources including birth, marriage and death certificates, censuses, newspaper reports, passports, recipe books, trade directories, diaries and passenger lists were all used to uncover more, and how much can be detected by setting the characters from your family tree in their proper historical backgrounds. This book is an updated edition of Ruth Symes' previous book, titled Stories From Your Family Tree: Researching Ancestors Within Living Memory (2008).

Ruth A. Symes spent her career in academia and editing. Now a freelance writer and historian, she writes for various genealogical magazines, including Discover My Past England, Discover My Past Scotland, Family Tree Magazine, and Who Do You Think You Are? She has previously published four books, including From Corncrake to Combine, which she edited, and Stories from Your Family Tree.

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ISBN 13	9781473862944
ISBN 10	1473862949
Title	Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries
Author	Ruth A Symes
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Year published	2016-08-01
Number of pages	144
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