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Family First

Tracing Relationships in the Past

By: Ruth A. Symes

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Family First

Tracing Relationships in the Past

By: Ruth A. Symes

Discover the history of family roles and relationships—and how to learn more about your own ancestors. A blend of social history and family history, Family First looks at relationships and our attitudes and experiences surrounding them—fathers, mothers, babies, children, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents and the elderly, friends and neighbors. This book examines how readers might learn more about how their own ancestors functioned in these relationships, and what records might tell us more. Each chapter starts with a guide on how to interpret the most common and direct of family history sources, then goes on to examine each relationship in its changing historical contexts—how, for example, did the role of a father differ in the Victorian period from earlier periods? What similarities and differences were there in behavior and roles between fathers of different social classes? How did fatherhood change in the context of the two world wars? How has family size changed? How have opinions shifted about marriage between cousins? Explore these questions and more in this intriguing book.

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Pen and Sword

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1473874041

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9781473874046

It Runs in the Family

Understanding More About Your Ancestors

By: Ruth A Symes

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It Runs in the Family

Understanding More About Your Ancestors

By: Ruth A Symes

In the quest to uncover our family history, we turn to written records, the family album and even heirlooms. However, they can often be difficult to interpret and sometimes pose more questions than they answer: Why didn't my ancestors smile for the camera? Why did great-grandfather wear a beard while his sons were clean-shaven? Why is my great-grandmother holding flowers in this photograph? Drawing on evidence from social history, women's history, and the histories of photography, art and fashion, and using examples from the lowly as well as the famous, Ruth Symes explores many aspects of ordinary life in the past - from the state of the nation's teeth, to the legal and economic connotations of wearing a wedding ring and even the business of keeping a dog. This fascinating volume aims to help family historians get to know their elusive ancestors by deciphering the wealth of personal and historical clues contained in photographs, documents and artefacts.

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189

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The History Press

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0750952288

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9780750952286

Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries

By: Ruth A. Symes

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Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries

By: Ruth A. Symes

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).

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208

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Pen and Sword

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1473862965

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9781473862968

The Northern Utopia

British Perceptions of Norway in the Nineteenth Century

By: Peter Fjågesund,Ruth A. Symes

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The Northern Utopia

British Perceptions of Norway in the Nineteenth Century

By: Peter Fjågesund,Ruth A. Symes

In the nineteenth century, the ancient ‘filial tie’ between Britain and Norway was rediscovered by a booming tourist industry which took thousands across the North Sea to see the wonders of the fjords, the fjelds, and the beauties of the North Cape. This illustrated volume, for the first time, collects together vivid – and predominantly first-hand – impressions of the country recorded by nearly two hundred British travellers and other commentators, including Thomas Malthus, Charlotte Brontë, Lord Tennyson, and William Gladstone. In a rich selection of travel writing, fiction, poetry, journalism, political speeches, and art, Norway emerges as a refreshingly natural utopia, happily free from her imperial neighbour’s increasing problems with the side-effects of industrialisation. This is a fascinating examination of the people, institutions, customs, language and environment of Norway seen through the eyes of the British. Using the tools of literary and historical scholarship, Fjågesund and Symes set these perceptions in their nineteenth-century context, throwing light on such issues as progress, art and aesthetics, democracy, religion, nationhood, race, class, and gender, all of which occupied Europe at the time. The Northern Utopia will be of particular interest to students of British and Scandinavian cultural history, literature and travel writing. It will also enthral all those who love Norway.

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415

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BRILL

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9004485015

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9789004485013

Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters & Personal Writings

A Guide for Family Historians

By: Ruth A. Symes

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Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters & Personal Writings

A Guide for Family Historians

By: Ruth A. Symes

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 industrialization, 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.

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322

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Pen and Sword

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1473855446

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9781473855441

Ruth and Naomi

A Story of Friendship, Growth, and Change

By: Elizabeth Ruth Obbard

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Ruth and Naomi

A Story of Friendship, Growth, and Change

By: Elizabeth Ruth Obbard

In a retelling of the story of Ruth, this book offers an opportunity to see the Scriptural truth in our own lives and to value the sanctity and depth of each human life, with each chapter ending with a prayer that emphasizes the theme of human love being the root of all that is good.

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124

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0867165030

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9780867165036

Letters from Ruth

By: Ruth Stewart Fajfr,Ruth Stewart

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Letters from Ruth

By: Ruth Stewart Fajfr,Ruth Stewart

Out of a lifetime of counseling women through her vast correspondence came these letters written by Bible teacher and missionary, Ruth Stewart Fajfr. In them she shares the lessons the Lord has taught this saint of God over the years.

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130

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1566320267

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9781566320269

Ruthie, Brethren Girl

An Autobiography

By: Ruth Rogers Stokes

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Ruthie, Brethren Girl

An Autobiography

By: Ruth Rogers Stokes

Ruth Rogers was born 10 September 1925 at Windber, Pennsylvania. This work tells of her life and work. It also gives information about her family including both sets of grandparents.

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240

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Winepress Pub

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1883893607

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9781883893606

Book's by Ruth A. Symes

Family First

Family First

It Runs in the Family

It Runs in the Family

Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries

Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries

The Northern Utopia

The Northern Utopia

Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters & Personal Writings

Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters & Personal Writings

Ruth and Naomi

Ruth and Naomi

Letters from Ruth

Letters from Ruth

Ruthie, Brethren Girl

Ruthie, Brethren Girl

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