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). AUTHOR: Ruth A. Symes is a freelance writer and historian. She has published several other genealology and history titles and is a regular features writer for a range of magazines including Family Tree UK, Who Do You Think You Are? and Discover Your Ancestors. Ruth's blog can be found at: www.searchmyancestry.blogspot.co.uk 100 illustrations
