Tracing your Ancestors through Letters & Personal Writings new Lisa Tippings has chosen to

Lisa Tippings has chosen to focus on the lives of the mainly working class women who realised the movement gave them an opportunity to embrace change

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Tracing your Ancestors through Letters & Personal Writings new Lisa Tippings has chosen toCould 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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing