- Publisher: Pen & Sword
- Year: 2016
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 280pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 234x156mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.6kg
- ISBN: 9781473855434
- Product code: 512281
Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings
A Guide for Family Historians
Ruth A Symes New Paperback Illustrated
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Family papers and annotated books can reveal much more about their writers than might appear at first glance, offering an insight into their social status, health and character. Ruth Symes, a genealogical expert, looks at a variety of unpublished writings, from letters and diaries to postcards, poems and signatures, and explains how to get as much information as possible from each source.
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Could your ancestors write their own names or did they mark official documents with a cross? Why did great-grandfather write so cryptically on a postcard home during the First World War? Why did great-grandmother copy all the letters she wrote into letter-books? How unusual was it that great-uncle sat down and wrote a poem, or a memoir? Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together and managing their collective affairs. With industrialisation, improved education, and far more geographical mobility, British people of all classes were writing for new purposes, with new implements, in new styles, using new modes of expression and new methods of communication (e.g. telegrams and postcards).
Our ancestors had an itch for scribbling from the most basic marks (initials, signatures and graffiti on objects as varied as trees, rafters and window ledges), through more emotionally-charged kinds of writing such as letters and diaries, to more creative works such as poetry and even fiction. This book shows family historians how to get the most out of documents written by their ancestors and, therefore, how better to understand the people behind the words.
Our ancestors had an itch for scribbling from the most basic marks (initials, signatures and graffiti on objects as varied as trees, rafters and window ledges), through more emotionally-charged kinds of writing such as letters and diaries, to more creative works such as poetry and even fiction. This book shows family historians how to get the most out of documents written by their ancestors and, therefore, how better to understand the people behind the words.
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Family papers and annotated books can reveal much more about their writers than might appear at first glance, offering an insight into their social status, health and character. Ruth Symes, a genealogical expert, looks at a variety of unpublished writings, from letters and diaries to postcards, poems and signatures, and explains how to get as much information as possible from each source.
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