Innovative approaches to understanding more about your family history
By Ruth A Symes : Buy my book at Amazon, click this link. Could your ancestors write their own names or did they mark official documents with a cross? Why did great-grandfather write so cryptically on a postcard home during the First World War? Why did great-grandmother copy all the letters she wrote into letter-books?... Continue Reading →
(Hardback title, Pen and Sword, 2016)) By Ruth A Symes Buy my book at Amazon, click this link. Husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, children, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents - these are the relationships that structure the family tree and fascinate the family historian. But how much do we really know about how our ancestors... Continue Reading →
By Ruth A. Symes [This article was first published in Discover your Ancestors online periodical, 2017] Barometer made by Innocent Tara, 1920, Louth Museum. Via Wikimedia Commons. Before the foundation of the Meteorological Office in 1854 (and sometimes thereafter when the network of weather stations was still very small), many people all over the British Isles... Continue Reading →
