searchmyancestry – Ruth A. Symes
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(The History Press) By Ruth A Symes Buy my book at Amazon, click this link. Why didn't my ancestors smile for the camera? Why did great-grandfather wear a beard whilst his sons were clean-shaven? Should great-grandma really have married her cousin? Was great-aunt unusual to have several children in her 40s? Drawing on evidence from... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
