searchmyancestry – Ruth A. Symes
Innovative approaches to understanding more about your family history
By Ruth A Symes This article was first published in Discover Your Ancestors Online Periodical in 2025. http://www.discoveryourancestors.co.uk Etching of a baptism by Anker Smith (1759-1819), Wellcome Collection. Like marriages and burials, baptisms were key life events by which our ancestors demarcated their life experience and for which our extended families in the past routinely... 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 →
Michael William Sharp, Man Eating; Norfolk Museums Service; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/man-eating-1160.1913. 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. Like... Continue Reading →
