Don’t know if you heard - Next census release (1921, next year) will be a
big one. The ‘31 census was lost in a fire and the ‘41 was cancelled (WWII)
On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 at 16:31, Martin Walters <mwalters1440@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chris:
> My sister and I are in the same position, with only our mother still
> living (but very poorly). We have lots of questions about old photos and
> relations that would be easy to answer otherwise. Indeed, some will
> never be answered now.
>
> We ended up signing up for Ancestry to try and rectify things. We found
> that it was quite useful, but with limited information after 1911 (the
> last available census). You do have to be quite careful to pick the
> right person..... It's amazing how many people of the same name and
> place were born/married or died in the same year. We found information
> on other family trees, some good, some clearly mixed up.
>
> Ancestry does have service records, though patchy. I also joined Forces
> War Records briefly. In our case, we still have one grandfather who's
> records are not available publicly. His brother's (he died in 1913), on
> the other hand, are available and make interesting reading. I also read
> that a significant part of the records were lost during bombing of the
> War Department in the 1940s.
>
> Martin
>
> On 2020-04-04 6:19 a.m., Chris Barker wrote:
> > My maternal grandfather served in both World Wars, mostly as a pilot,
> but also as an engineer (from what I can gather). He worked in Iraq (where
> he was interned during the revolution of the 1950s), Ghana and India as a
> railway engineer after the Second World War and I last saw him a couple of
> years before he died in 1993, just short of his 100th birthday.
> >
> > I’ve started taking a (belated) interest in his career and his ancestry,
> but it has been impossible to find out anything about his parents. So i
> thought to check through some of his early photos for clues. I’ve scanned
> a few and put them in a mid-March blog entry:
> >
> > http://cbimages.uk/?p=700 <http://cbimages.uk/?p=700>
> >
> > The photo of him and some young lady wearing an army tunic is a little
> strange, but he’s not here to defend himself or his motives . . .
> >
> > Chris
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