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This book is a personal journey into the family archives of
photographer Paul Weinberg. As a child his sorties into an old
black trunk that the family had at home where he encountered
stamps, letters, photographs and most importantly postcards,
excited his imagination to a world far beyond the borders of South
Africa and the African continent. They became a collection of
connections to his grandparents, to their 'roots' in eastern Europe
and his own. The book explores his past as he retraces his family
footprints in South Africa. It takes him to far-flung small towns
in the interior of South Africa where the family eventually found a
niche for themselves in the hotel trade. In the form of postcards
to his great grandfather, Edward, it is on one hand a visual
narrative of this journey and on another a multi-layered travel
book as he pieces the jigsaw of his family's footprints together. A
sub-theme of the book is a story of the 'old hotel' which was at
one point so central and dynamic in the lives of many of these
small towns. Weinberg revisits these hotels and explores their
whereabouts, and their evolution. Weaving history,
historiographies, memoir and archive into a personal pilgrimage,
this book offers fresh insights and perspectives on a family who
made this country their 'adopted home'. Through the metaphor of the
postcard this book sets up a dialogue between the author, his great
grandfather, the past and the present, and asks important questions
about who writes history, and who is left out.
Blood on the Thistle is an examination of the life and times of a
remarkable Scottish family, the Cranstons of Haddington, East
Lothian. It focuses on a period from about 1880, when the young,
hard-working parents, Alec and Lizzie Cranston, arrived in
Haddington, through to 1920, when the family they had produced,
torn apart by the Great War, broke up as its surviving members
pursued separate lives around the globe. Of seven sons who served
in the First World War, four died and two more were horrifically
wounded; only one, the youngest, returned home physically
unscathed. This book explores the effects of this extreme sacrifi
ce on the sons themselves as well as the loved ones they left
behind, particularly their mother, Lizzie, who mourned them for the
rest of her days. This is the tale of how a once proud and
aspirational Scottish family was devastated by war, and how the
effects continued to ripple through time and generations. Until, a
century later, the threads of this remarkable family are finally
drawn together again, in a book that is at once a superb
documentary account and a moving tribute to a generation.
Tracing Your Glasgow Ancestors is a volume in the series of city
ancestral guides published by Pen & Sword for readers and
researchers who want to find out about life in Glasgow in the past
and to know where the key sources for its history can be found. In
vivid detail it describes the rise of Glasgow through tobacco,
shipping, manufacturing and trade from a minor cathedral town to
the cosmopolitan centre of the present day. Ian Maxwell's book
focuses on the lives of the local people both rich and poor and on
their experience as Glasgow developed around them. It looks at
their living conditions, at health and the ravages of disease, at
the influence of religion and migration and education. It is the
story of the Irish and Highland migrants, Quakers, Jews, Irish,
Italians, and more recently people from the Caribbean, South-Asia
and China who have made Glasgow their home. A wealth of information
on the city and its people is available, and Glasgow Ancestors is
an essential guide for anyone researching its history or the life
of an individual ancestor. institutions, clubs, societies and
schools.
Can trauma be inherited? It is this question that sets Alex
Halberstadt off on a quest to name and acknowledge a legacy of
family trauma, and to end a cycle of estrangement that had endured
for nearly a century. His search takes him across the troubled,
enigmatic land of his birth. In Ukraine he tracks down his paternal
grandfather - most likely the last living bodyguard of Joseph
Stalin - to reckon with the ways in which decades of Soviet
totalitarianism shaped and fractured three generations of his
family. He returns to Lithuania, his Jewish mother's home, to
revisit the legacy of the Holocaust and the pernicious
anti-Semitism that remains largely unaccounted for, learning that
the boundary between history and biography is often fragile and
indistinct. And he visits his birthplace, Moscow, where his
glamorous grandmother designed homespun couture for Soviet
ministers' wives, his mother dosed dissidents at a psychiatric
hospital, and his father made a living by selling black-market jazz
and rock records. Finally, Halberstadt explores his own story: that
of a fatherless immigrant who arrived in America, to a housing
project in Queens, New York, as a ten-year-old boy struggling with
identity, feelings of rootlessness and a yearning for home. He
comes to learn that he was merely the latest in a lineage of sons
who grew up alone, separated from their fathers by the tides of
politics and history. As Halberstadt revisits the sites of his
family's formative traumas, he uncovers a multigenerational
transmission of fear, suspicion, melancholy, and rage. And he comes
to realize something more: nations, like people, possess formative
traumas that penetrate into the most private recesses of their
citizens' lives.
The German bestseller - a powerful and deeply affecting graphic
memoir that explores identity, guilt and the meaning of home Winner
of Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year Winner of Book
Illustration prize at the V&A Illustration Awards Winner of the
The National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography Winner of
the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize
for Political Writing Shortlisted for the Longman History Today
Prize One of the Guardian's '50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2018' The
New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2018 Nora Krug grew up as a
second-generation German after the end of the Second World War,
struggling with a profound ambivalence towards her country's recent
past. Travelling as a teenager, her accent alone evoked raw
emotions in the people she met, an anger she understood, and
shared. Seventeen years after leaving Germany for the US, Nora Krug
decided she couldn't know who she was without confronting where
she'd come from. In Heimat, she documents her journey investigating
the lives of her family members under the Nazi regime, visually
charting her way back to a country still tainted by war.
Beautifully illustrated and lyrically told, Heimat is a powerful
meditation on the search for cultural identity, and the meaning of
history and home.
Dear Granny (sketch design) is an award-winning journal filled with
over 60 fun and inspiring questions carefully created to inspire
any grandmother to tell her story - probably one of the most
valuable gifts you will ever buy. Everyone has stories to share
about their own amazing life and it is so important to find ways to
capture and treasure them. Dear Granny contains 60 carefully
designed questions to ask her about her life. Ask her to complete
it carefully, adding photos and memorabilia along the way. Find out
how things have changed throughout her life, what things did she do
as a child that are different from today. What were her own parents
really like and what adventures has she had in her life. Discover
what your own mum or dad was like when they were young! What about
your own relationship with your grandmother, what are her favourite
memories of the times you have spent together and is there any
advice she would like to give you? When you get her completed
journal returned to you, this will be one of the most emotional
presents you have ever received. A great gift for Mother's Day,
Grandparent's Day, her birthday, an anniversary, Christmas or just
because you care ...
Birth, marriage and death records are an essential resource for
family historians, and this handbook is an authoritative
introduction to them. It explains the original motives for
registering these milestones in individual lives, describes how
these record-keeping systems evolved, and shows how they can be
explored and interpreted. Authors David Annal and Audrey Collins
guide researchers through the difficulties they may encounter in
understanding the documentation. They recount the history of parish
registers from their origin in Tudor times, they look at how civil
registration was organized in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries and explain how the system in England and Wales differs
from those in Scotland and Ireland. The record-keeping practised by
nonconformist and foreign churches, in communities overseas and in
the military is also explained, as are the systems of the Isle of
Man and the Channel Islands. Other useful sources of evidence for
births, marriages and deaths are explored and, of course, the
authors assess the online sites that researchers can turn to for
help in this crucial area of family history research.
This title helps the reader understand how to go about researching
their family tree, starting with the basics. This practical book
will have you achieving immediate results using: a friendly, visual
approach simple language practical, task-based examples large,
full-colour screenshots. Discover everything you want to know about
using online tools and services to research your family history in
this easy-to-use guide; from the most essential tasks that you'll
want to perform, to solving the most common problems you'll
encounter.
Whatever Remains is a true story. The fall of Singapore is
considered one of Britain's worst defeats of the Second World War.
For Penny Graham's father, however, it became a life-changing
opportunity to shed once and for all, all of the shackles of a
family he no longer wanted. From 1942 onwards her parents would
carry passports that gave them backgrounds that had nothing to do
with reality. In 2010, a recognised Australian author claimed that
her father and mother were involved in espionage for the British
Government before, during and after World War 2. Although he worked
in Australian naval intelligence during the war, there is no
evidence whatsoever that he was an MI6 spy. He clearly had his own
motives for the change of identity but they had nothing to do with
espionage. Penny Graham spent most of her adult life unravelling
the truth about her family history. Her journey took her around the
world twice, on many twists and turns, false leads and dead ends as
she discovers hew her father managed to hoodwink so many people in
his long and complex life. Whatever Remains is a beautifully
written story about solving mysteries, conquering adversity and
ultimately finding where you belong in the world. It's a slice of
history worth telling.
This handy book is a timeline guide to genealogical resources -
what records are available and when they started - as well as an
aide-memoire to significant historical events from 1066 to 2020;
helping to put family ancestors into an historical context. Each
page in this book has a main column with facts of genealogical
relevance in the broadest sense; a side column makes mention of
events of socio-cultural significance and events relating to the
monarchy, the State and the Church. Entries cover historical and
genealogical aspects of all four countries of the UK plus Ireland
and the Channel Islands, as well as significant historical events
in the wider world that had an impact here. The timeline is
especially strong on the contribution of migration, extreme
weather, disasters, epidemics, wars, non-conformist religions,
taxation, transport, the armed services, famine, empire, organised
labour, social writers, mapmakers, political unrest and scientific
advances. Genealogically, there is information on changes to BMD
certificates and the associated register entries, as well as to
censuses and the facts they collected, plus much more. There are
also references to earlier records that generated name indexes such
as muster rolls and poll taxes, how complete they are and where
they can be found. By being reasonably balanced across the
centuries, the authors have resisted the temptation to include
excessive detail on recent history. This book will help the family
historian to construct a timeline for their ancestors, providing a
fairly full set of historical events, developments and records
likely to have had an impact on them, their family and community.
It is a handy reference guide to a myriad of dates but is also a
useful book to study when writing a family history as it offers
plenty of contextual information. It should also prompt readers to
search out new resources in tracing their ancestors.
Few previous publications have focused on Welsh family history, and
none have provided a comprehensive guide to the genealogical
information available and where to find it. That is why the
publication of Beryl Evans's new Welsh family history handbook is
such a significant event in the field. Her detailed, accessible,
authoritative guide will be essential reading and reference for
anyone who is eager to research ancestors from Wales. She describes
the key archival sources and shows how the development of new
technology, the internet in particular, has made them so much
easier to explore. Drawing on her long experience of family history
work, she gives clear practical advice on how to start a research
project, and she sketches in the outlines of Welsh history, Welsh
surnames and place-names and the Welsh language. But the main body
of her book is devoted to identifying the variety of sources
researchers can consult - the archive repositories, including The
National Library of Wales, civil records of all kinds, the census,
parish registers, wills, the records of churches, chapels, schools,
businesses, tax offices and courts, and the wide range of printed
records.Beryl Evans's handbook will be a basic text for researchers
of Welsh descent and for anyone who is keen to learn about Welsh
history.
This title offers accessible and clear advice on discovering your
family's history in the UK, explaining the best research
techniques, how to log and collate your research. It contains all
the information needed to start your own search including a useful
checklist to guide through each stage. You can experience the
amazing thrill of tracing back your bloodline hundreds of years and
discovering who your ancestors were and what their lives were like.
It contains over 135 illustrations, including diagrams,
contemporaneous photographs, document facsimiles, sample family
trees and artworks. It includes sections on Welsh, Scottish, Irish
and Channel Island records, as well as English. This book
introduces the subject of genealogy in a highly practical form, and
explains the process of tracing and finding ancestors in the
British Isles in a simple and easy-to-follow way. The book begins
with the very basics of starting to research, guiding the reader
through each stage, from finding clues in photographs and naming
patterns, to creating drop-line charts and starting to draw up a
family tree. The next section goes back to the early 1800s, and
explains how to take investigations further by using all kinds of
sources, both in archive form and on the internet, especially
census information. The book also goes on to explain how to find
relatives through their professions, apprenticeships, education,
and military records. This useful guide to genealogy will help you
discover your roots, identify your British ancestors, and unlock
the secrets of your family heritage.
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