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 →
By Ruth A Symes Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update Fragment of a larger portrait. But is this Emily or Anne? National Portrait Gallery via Wikimedia Commons [A version of this article was first published in the family history press in 2018] With the recent release of the latest... Continue Reading →
