Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries

Ruth A. Symes

Jul 2016 · Pen and Sword

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208

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A historian and genealogical expert reveals not only how to identify your ancestors, but to understand them and tell their stories.

The intriguing characters in these real family history mysteries include an agricultural laborer 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 rumored to have two wives.

Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries 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 A. Symes's previous book, titled Stories From Your Family Tree: Researching Ancestors Within Living Memory .

A historian and genealogical expert reveals not only how to identify your ancestors, but to understand them and tell their stories. The intriguing characters in these real family history mysteries include an agricultural laborer who left secrets behind in Somerset when he migrated to Manchester,...

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About the author

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.

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 famil...

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