Tracing Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings: A Guide For Family Historians

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 →

February 1, 2025 0

‘The Thermometer in the Vestibule’ – Your Ancestor’s Weather Diaries

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 →

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