Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries
eBook - ePub

Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries

About this book

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 .

Information

Publisher
Pen & Sword History
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781473862968
Print ISBN
9781473862944
Subtopic
British History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: ‘He Didn’t Come from Round Here’: Migration within Britain
  9. Chapter 2: ‘Great-Great-Granny Was a Rum ’Un’: Poverty and Disease
  10. Chapter 3: ‘So Poor, They Took in Lodgers’: Working-class Living Conditions
  11. Chapter 4: ‘Coal and Canals Polished Them Off’: The Dangers of Industrial Towns
  12. Chapter 5: ‘Daddy Saw It All’: The Second World War
  13. Chapter 6: ‘She Had a Really Good Send Off’: Death and Burial
  14. Chapter 7: ‘We Come Alive behind Shop Counters’: Working for Big Companies
  15. Chapter 8: ‘Great-Grandfather Lived with the Red Indians’: Emigration to America
  16. Chapter 9: ‘Grandfather Owned a Piece of Gold’: The British Empire and Immigration
  17. Chapter 10: ‘She Supported the Family’: Domestic Service
  18. Chapter 11: ‘He Always had his Nose in a Book’: Cultural Tastes and Family Relationships
  19. Chapter 12: ‘You Are What They Ate’: Geography, Culture, Religion and Wealth
  20. Bibliography

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