searchmyancestry – Ruth A. Symes
Innovative approaches to understanding more about your family history
(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 →
By Ruth A. Symes [This article was first published in Discover your Ancestors online periodical, 2017] Barometer made by Innocent Tara, 1920, Louth Museum. Via Wikimedia Commons. Before the foundation of the Meteorological Office in 1854 (and sometimes thereafter when the network of weather stations was still very small), many people all over the British Isles... Continue Reading →
