So, one of the #FamilyHistory jobs I was able to get done with my parents during my recent visit was to sort out forms to ask for my maternal Grandmother’s and Great Aunt’s War Service Records, and any medals that were due. This photo is my Great Aunt Gladys, as a #WAAF in 1946 - we know she stayed in the #RAF after the war, and she served in Egypt - but nothing else. She died in 1952, apparently from complications from a virus she picked up in Egypt. So fingers crossed I find out more!
#FindMyPast has added to its collection of school registers. This morning I've dipped into the beginnings of Bearwood Road school, Smethwick. The trials and tribulations and the first inspector's report.
There's something I still don't understand about #FindAGrave.
My granny's grandad was buried at Witton Cemetery Birmingham in 1905. I confirmed ages ago with the Birmingham cemetery office he is buried in an unmarked grave in a communal plot.
I found a few minutes ago that he's got a memorial on Find a Grave created by "! WooWoo" who seems to have created 14,618,067 memorials and manages 15,050,447 memorials on Find a Grave.
Today Find My Past has launched a new rather quirky database: Warwickshire Coventry Vehicle Registrations 1921-1924.
Am finding more success by using the "Advanced options - optional keywords" search because the records are record cards where there is a variety of fields and folk, naturally, filled them in in a variety of ways.
At first sight an uninspiring list of car registration numbers. But drill down you find long defunct car makers, famous car models and owners/addresses
In 1919, my 2 x great grandfather William Howe was unwell, so the villagers railed round and arranged a prize draw for his benefit, raising the equivalent of £2,500. The success of the draw illustrated the high esteem in which William was held within the community.
Mom was 26 yrs old & I was 8 yrs old. In front of BC legislature. Wearing my fave red ruffle neck sweater vest, wide leg jeans; Mom let me wear her red lipstick that day. I'm unhappy about my mismatched Frankenstein orthotic boot - ppl used to stare at/make fun of them/me. It took years for me to be able to wear regular, matching boots.
#Expo86 in #VancouverBC
Mom was 29 yrs old, brother Jerry was 8 yrs old. In a cyclo, at the #Singapore exhibition. Our very first family holidays trip, a ferry ride over. We stayed in a motel & had fancy dimsum for first times on this short trip. We had lots of fun at Expo86. The monorail rides were my fave.
#Cholon#Saigon#Vietnam
2nd Auntie & my #Matriarch Grandma, visiting Dad's family home. Last photo taken of them, until late 1980s(Mom returned to visit village home). I take after my Matriarch Grandma a lot.
Dad's family home only exists in photos now.
US bombed it & nothing remains.
Register to enjoy a free webinar replay the weekend of 5-7 April 2024 “Migrations 2: North Carolinians on the Move – Reconstruction & Early 20th Century Migration" - the NC Genealogical Society will email a direct link to the recording for viewing between midnight Thursday thru midnight Sunday.
Handout only available during the viewing period & will open in a separate tab; not downloadable or printable
1978 - Me, my brothers & cousins at #Bidong Island, #Malaysia#RefugeesCamp before we were transferred to #Galang refugees camp in Indonesia, in early 1979. One cousin, Bill, was born at Indonesian camp & was in my Aunt's belly at time this photo was taken.
New free virtual webinar recording on "Tracing Revolutionary War Soldiers at the State Archives of North Carolina" now available on their YouTube channel. Learn about what the records available there can tell you about the Revolutionary War period!
My heart goes out to the families of the people killed yesterday at the Maryland Bridge collapse.
A distant cousin of mine, Elijah Webb, had travelled to New York alone aged 12 from Wolverhampton to live and work with family who'd already emigrated. Found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time when Vanderbilt's Landing collapsed.