Gathering Visual Information and Artefacts - International Institute: Difference between revisions

A thorough family historian will obtain photocopies of large-scale maps of the areas where his ancestors lived and worked. The researcher can then see what the neighbourhood was like, their houses, workplaces, schools and churches can be marked and a much better feel for their lives obtained.  

This term refers to the ''things'' that have been passed down in your family from your ancestors. Examples might include a tea-set, war medals, woodworking tools or someone’s pipe. One researcher friend has his policeman ancestor’s set of handcuffs and I was given my grandmother’s flat iron (it makes a handy bookend!)