Ruth A Symes Buy my book at Amazon, click this link. 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... Continue Reading →
Family First: Tracing Relationships in The Past
(Hardback title, Pen and Sword, 2016)) By Ruth A Symes Buy my book at Amazon, click this link. Husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, children, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents - these are the relationships that structure the family tree and fascinate the family historian. But how much do we really know about how our ancestors... Continue Reading →