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Agnes Hale
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Agnes Hale

What to do when you are doing a book about your ancestors and there are no photographs? I think you just need to go for the mood and feel of the time and just use what you can access. This page is one of a series I will be doing about my mother's side of the family; they were miners and my Great, Great, Great Grandmother came from Ireland to Scotland at the time of the Irish famine. Anna's papers are perfect for these kind of pages, I've just blended the reference material into the texture of the artsy paper and added photos of the Dublin Famine memorial, most are just using colour burn mode and erasing to suit.
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it is ingenious how you have portrayed the time and the living conditions of your family.
this page is incredibly touching and you have captured this great poverty and suffering very well.
this is art. just a b r i l l i a n t page.
Thank you Nia! x
 
A wonderful heritage page. Beautifully illustrated. I can't even imagine how terrible it must have been for everyone living in those conditions but you've certainly captured some of their suffering.
It's certainly opened my eyes doing this research, also makes me irrationally angry at the fact that their suffering was exacerbated by the owners of the mines - I now understand why my Grandfather was such a Union man!
 
So much talent.
Wonderful depiction of the time and the hardships.
Your heritage pages are always interesting.
 
I was caught by the images you used particularly since I have Irish ancestors. I read through your story and in the right side paragraph I noticed a child born in 1951. Thought you might like to know.... Wonderful page, may need to scraplift for my Irish ancestry.
 

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