Thanks, Scott. I’m about to give geni a go.
Chris
> On 7 Apr 20, at 19:32, Scott Gomez <sgomez.baja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Interested researchers might also try geni.com <http://geni.com/>. They're a
> bit more "open"
> than Ancestry as regards searching. One big advantage to geni, I've found,
> is the fact that when adding individuals, they'll report matches to already
> existing family data entered by others, as well as the ability to merge
> duplicate records. So it often turns out that just adding a few of one's
> own "known" records on individual family members turns up a duplicate,
> which then opens lots of other avenues when connected via a record merge.
> In my own case, using it finally provided connections from my maternal
> grandfather to all sorts of Finnish family members, where I'd been stymied
> for literally decades by a combination of language issues and insufficient
> data.
>
> No connection with them other than as a satisfied customer.
>
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 11:13 AM Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>> Martin
>>
>> Good luck with your search, and thanks (and to Jez) for that information.
>>
>> My mother is still alive but with incipient dementia and a failing
>> long-term memory; she did write some memoirs around 10 years ago, but they
>> were sketchy and only partially accurate. The person with almost
>> encyclopaedic knowledge her sister-in-law, my aunt, but she’s lying
>> immobile and with failing everything in a care home near Glasgow after a
>> stroke at Christmas.
>>
>> I’m inclined to try to see my grandfather’s war records, but now will
>> probably be a bad time . . .
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>> On 4 Apr 2020, at 16:30, 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> <
>> http://cbimages.uk/?p=700 <http://cbimages.uk/?p=700>
>> <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 . . .
>>
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