searchmyancestry – Ruth A. Symes
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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 →
Dog in a top hat. Bonque and Kindermann Photographers, Germany, 1894. Via Wikimedia Commons. [[File:Dog in top hat.jpg|Dog_in_top_hat]] [This article was first published in Dogs Monthly in 2012] How often have you cooed over a dog in an old family photograph - the Great Dane stretched at the feet of its master; the Red Setter... Continue Reading →
[A version of this article first appeared in Discover Your Ancestors Online Periodical - December 2015]. http://www.discoveryourancestors.co.uk/ Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update Girl's Own Paper December 20th 1884, Vol VI, No.260. Greenery and fruit, sparkle and snow, colourfully-dressed tables and walls inscribed with Yuletide mottos - Christmases past were decorated using much... Continue Reading →
