History of U.S. Immigration – BookViral Book Reviews (bookviralreviews.com) April 18, 2023 The objective of any author should be to hold the reader’s interest. To want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end, and this is what Searching for Charles: The Untold Legacy of …
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Illinois State Genealogical Society – ISGS Quarterly (ilgensoc.org) July 1, 2023 A Timeless Narrative Searching for Charles: The Untold Legacy of an Immigrant’s American Adventure by Stephen Watts. Published 2022 by Houndstooth Press. 579 pages. Author Stephen Watts is a very lucky man. He was fortunate to have access to …
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Review: Searching for Charles by Stephen Watts | Self-Publishing Review (selfpublishingreview.com) May 20, 2023 Taking readers on a historic journey across the Atlantic and into the burgeoning American continent, Searching for Charles: The Untold Legacy of an Immigrant’s American Adventure by Stephen Watts is a stunning portrait of the past. In 1835, …
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SEARCHING FOR CHARLES | Kirkus Reviews May 2, 2023 The letters of a 19th-century immigrant and pioneer are transcribed and contextualized by his descendent in this absorbing debut epistolary biography by Watts. Charles Watts was born in Epping, near London, in 1812. Along with family friend William Abrehart, the 23-year-old …
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Review of Searching for Charles (9781544531939) — Foreword Reviews May 19, 2023 Drawing on his letters home, Searching for Charles vivifies a nineteenth-century English immigrant’s new life on the Illinois prairie. Stephen Watts’s family biography Searching for Charles makes use of an ancestor’s correspondence, bringing to life a witness to nineteenth-century American history. Charles …
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SEARCHING FOR CHARLES: The Untold Legacy of an Immigrant’s American Adventure | IndieReader May 19, 2023 A celebration of an “ordinary” working-class immigrant who journeyed from Britain to build a new life in America offers a window into 19th-Century prairie pioneer living. SEARCHING FOR CHARLES (The Untold Legacy of an …
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Searching for Charles: The Untold Legacy of an Immigrant’s American Adventure – BlueInk Review May 9, 2023 In this detail-rich account of his family history, Stephen Watts shares what he has learned, but perhaps just as importantly, how he has learned it, about his great-great-grandfather Charles, the man responsible for …
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