searchmyancestry – Ruth A. Symes
Innovative approaches to understanding more about your family history
Dear all, August is often the time when families return to favourite holiday resorts of their childhood and it's worth thinking a little about how far back these traditions go. It's perfectly possible that you are still visiting the same places that your ancestors have been visiting ever since seaside holidays became really popular in... Continue Reading →
In the 1920s, hundreds of peculiar cream-coloured cubicles with eye-catching red doors first appeared on British pavements. My article 'Verminous Receptacles' on the practical, humorous and criminal ways in which the public reacted to so-called 'telephone cabinets' is out today in Discover Your Ancestors periodical online! http://www.discoveryourancestors.co.uk (Read by subscription only) Family History Research... Continue Reading →
