searchmyancestry – Ruth A. Symes
Innovative approaches to understanding more about your family history
This is where I bring you up-to-date with what has been keeping me excited family-history-wise over the past few weeks! My best bit of recent news is that I’ve found the answer to a family history mystery that has been bothering me for some time. A few years ago, I came across five (blank) postcards... Continue Reading →
My latest article on how our ancestors named their houses is out now in Discover Your Ancestors online periodical . By subscription only. http://www.discoveryourancestors.co.uk Subscribe
Holy Trinity Church, Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire, England , Via Wikimedia Commons. In a series of visits to Britain between 1862 and 1870, outspoken Frenchman Hippolyte Taine wrote lengthily about his impressions, and his comments-at-a-distance give us a clear and fascinating view of our ancestors in a way that no other source quite achieves. Taine blamed the... Continue Reading →
