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 →
A Victorian home. 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 considered the most important feature of... Continue Reading →
John Constable, 'Seascape Study with Rain Cloud (Rainstorm over the Sea)', between 1824 and 1828 In a series of visits between 1862 and 1870, Frenchman Hippolyte Taine wrote lengthily about his impressions of all things British, and his comments-at-a-distance give us a clear and fascinating view of our ancestors in a way that no other... Continue Reading →
