Ruth A Symes

Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries

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The intriguing characters in these real family history mysteries include an agricultural labourer who left secrets behind in Somerset when he migrated to Manchester, a working-class woman who bafflingly lost ten of her fourteen children in infancy, a miner who purportedly went to live with the Red Indians and a merchant prince of the Empire who was rumoured to have two wives. This book shows how a variety of sources including birth, marriage and death certificates, censuses, newspaper reports, passports, recipe books, trade directories, diaries and passenger lists were all used to uncover more, and how much can be detected by setting the char… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4738-6296-8
EAN: 9781473862968
Produktnummer: 22568673
Verlag: Pen and Sword
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 8'170 KB

Über den Autor

After a career in academia and editing, freelance writer and historian Ruth A. Symes now writes for several genealogical magazines including Family Tree Magazine and the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? magazine. She lives in Manchester with her husband and young daughter. This is her fourth family history book.