‘A COUSIN REVEALED MY FAMILY’S DARK SECRET’
‘I spent years searching genealogy sites for Emily and her birth family’
The taint of scandal can follow a family through the generations, and many people go to great lengths to escape it. Moving hundreds of miles away from home or starting afresh under a new identity were commonplace for our ancestors following a particularly heinous offence like murder.
This can pose challenges for family historians like Pauline Stanley, who was keen to trace her Burrows family but met with brick walls
