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Re: [OM] Grandpa

Subject: Re: [OM] Grandpa
From: Scott Gomez <sgomez.baja@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 11:47:29 -0700
Good luck with it, Chris! Your grandfather looks to have been an
interesting guy.

On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 10:50 PM Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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