searchmyancestry – Ruth A. Symes
Innovative approaches to understanding more about your family history
Hello everybody, Did your family in the past have a favourite pet ? Do you have a painting or photograph of your ancestors with their dog, cat or other animal? Pets can play a significant part in our family memories and histories and they can turn up in surprising places in the records. What can... Continue Reading →
Garrould Oldren (1799-1883) baptism in Wissett, Suffolk on 23 December 1799.jpg Via Wikimedia Commons Modern DNA techniques can now definitively solve questions of paternity, and can even resolve cases from several generations back in the past. But traditionally, there have been many other ways in which family historians could potentially discover who the daddy was... Continue Reading →
The Fallen Woman, c 1880, anon. Via Wikimedia Commons. We have probably all experienced that sense of frustration when the birth certificate of an ancestor arrives from the GRO and no father’s name is recorded upon it. The only thing that we can be reasonably sure about in these cases is that the parents of... Continue Reading →
