http://famresearch.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/alien-arrival-document/ Discoveries and reflections Fri, 05 Apr 2013 05:27:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://famresearch.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/alien-arrival-document/#comment-3 Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:22:43 +0000 http://famresearch.wordpress.com/?p=11#comment-3 Those bankruptcies records are great. My 3ggrand father had bankruptcy announcements in the London Times, then he left England; probably to avoid prosecution and relocated to South Africa. He promptly went bankrupt there, and those records are truly a treasure. They gave a complete inventory of all his possessions, right down to a deck of cards! They definitely give insight into how our ancestors lived. The records also contain letters written in his own hand explaining his situation – of course, it was the impatience of the creditors – nothing to do with him! I had a South African researcher locate these for me and send me digitized copies.

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