Together Trust Archive

We are excited to announce we have a brand new  search engine on our Together Trust website to help people see if their ancestors were ever in one of our Manchester homes . New search facility

The delight in family history enquiries, apart from providing researchers with information about their ancestors, is the new wealth of information it can provide us about the charity and social work through the years. This can range from services we provided that were previously unknown, to the various people and companies who we were associated with. An enquiry the other day linked the charity in a roundabout way to the world of aviation .  Bethesda Home, George Street, 1930s

‘Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom, and with all thy getting get understanding’ - Proverbs 4:7   For the last fo ur months we have had to suspend our genealogy service to the public. As regular readers of this blog will know we have a whole wealth of information on the young people who came under the care of the Together Trust. Our earlier material (that is no longer under the constrictions of the Data Protection Act ) is available to family historians to construct the lives of their ancestors. In the next few weeks this research service will be available again. Construction of Manchester Central Library, ea rly 1930’s*

When a family history request is made there are often a number of documents that have been kept within a case file which can be provided to researchers. Material such as application forms, visitor reports and indenture forms have been mentioned on this blog before. What are not included in these files however, often to the dismay of the genealogist, are individual images of the children. Leap frog in the garden

Family history is the systematic narrative and research of past events relating to a specific family, or specific families. Are any of these children one of your ancestors?