Book Review by Ruth A Symes Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update If your ancestor was a Girl Guide at any time since the inception of the movement in 1910, this book will enable you vividly to imagine what that experience would have been like. Cook skilfully interweaves Guiding... Continue Reading →
Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries
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 →
It Runs in the Family: Understanding More About Your Ancestors
(The History Press) By Ruth A Symes Buy my book at Amazon, click this link. Why didn't my ancestors smile for the camera? Why did great-grandfather wear a beard whilst his sons were clean-shaven? Should great-grandma really have married her cousin? Was great-aunt unusual to have several children in her 40s? Drawing on evidence from... Continue Reading →