Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries

Ruth A. Symes (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2016
Pen & Sword History (Verlag)
978-1-4738-6294-4 (ISBN)

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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 characters from your family tree in their proper historical backgrounds. This book is an updated edition of Ruth Symes' previous book, titled Stories From Your Family Tree: Researching Ancestors Within Living Memory (2008).

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.10.2016
Zusatzinfo	100 illustrations
Verlagsort	Barnsley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
ISBN-10	1-4738-6294-9 / 1473862949
ISBN-13	978-1-4738-6294-4 / 9781473862944
Zustand	Neuware