searchmyancestry – Ruth A. Symes
Innovative approaches to understanding more about your family history
Unwed mothers being brought before a court room and treated severely. Woodcut. Wellcome images, in the public domain, undated. Modern DNA techniques can now definitively solve questions of paternity, and can even resolve cases from several generations back in the past. But traditionally, there have been many other ways in which family historians could potentially... Continue Reading →
Hi everybody! Have you ever daydreamed about what daily life actually looked like for your ancestors? A little while ago, I started to think how odd it must have been for people in the past suddenly to be presented with hundreds of strange telephone 'cabinets' in the streets of their towns and cities, and even... Continue Reading →
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 →
