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.
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.