Essential Reading

'I have been a family historian for more than 40 years, and a professional historian for over 30, but as I read it, I was constantly encountering new ways of looking at my family history....Essential reading I would say!' Alan Crosby, WDYTYA Magazine

Wednesday 11 May 2016

Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries - Coming May 30th

 
OUT MAY 30TH 2016
 
 
 
Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries
Pen and Sword Books, 2016
 
 
 Find out how to reconstruct family stories using censuses, birth, marriage and death certificates, songs, passports, passenger lists, trade directories, antiques, diaries, funeral bills, recipe books and many other unusual sources.
 
 A fascinating start to your family history research!
 
 
 
 
 
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.  

  
 
[NB: This book is an updated reprint of my earlier Stories From Your Family Tree: Researching Ancestors Within Living Memory (The History Press, 2008)]
 
 
 
 
 
The Liverpool Blitz of May 1941 - revealed through a schoolboy diary 
 



                                           Washwomen in Wigan -  revealed in their inherited songs



                                        Lodgers in Manchester's back-to-back housing - revealed through the census

 
                                   Lancashire miners who migrated to the USA revealed through passenger lists

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60 Years of the National Childbirth Trust



See my article on


60 Years of the National Childbirth Trust

in May's issue (2016) of

Family Tree Magazine UK











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500 Years of the Post Office









See my article on

500 Years of the British Post Office

in June's issue (2016) of

Family Tree Magazine UK

 OUT NOW

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Seamstress ancestors

 
 
See my article on
Seamstress Ancestors
in May's issue (2016) of
Discover Your Ancestors
(online periodical) 
 
  
 
 
 
 


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