Posted in the Past Hands Across the Sea

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The teenager lashed to the side of Robert Stephenson's yacht in a storm as she sailed with him to Egypt and other true stories</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Georgina Ballantine who landed a record-breaking salmon that was almost as long as she was tall... A family who ran a hotel in Southampton's 'Titanic Street'... Cornwall's engineering genius who invented the Banbury Mixer - still a milestone in America's tyre industry... Archer Baldwin the British MP born in a cabin in Tennessee... The Thompson sisters who worked on the first </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Oxford English Dictionary</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>... Poor Lizzie who was almost swept overboard sailing to the Isle of Man... all are connected by postcards sent more than a hundred years ago.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>If you have researched your own family's history or enjoyed watching programmes that explore our ancestry through genealogy and DNA you'll know how thrilling it is to discover an ancestor with a story. Using genealogy resources this new collection of true stories begins with postcards sent by our ancestors as they travelled the world - some finding happiness others only tragedy.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(255 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Praise for the</span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> Posted in the Past</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> series</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>An enjoyable and intriguing look at the past</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Who Do You Think You Are?</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> magazine</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Detailed & often poignant... These stories are a true snapshot of the golden age of postcards - </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Family Tree</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> magazine</span></p>