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World War Two / Help WW2 Uniform, Misc Bloke 4, Possibly Cambridgeshire based, Army RASC
« on: Monday 16 July 18 10:02 BST (UK)  »
I have 2-3 photos of "unknown blokes" that were in my mother's pile of photographs.

Can anybody identify this uniform?  The letters on the shoulder start with R.A..... so possibly RAF?  The image on the arm shows some rampant animal....

UPDATE 1: Now been informed it is Army, RASC.

UPDATE 2: suggested one of the medal ribbons is for: 8th Army, North Africa

UPDATE 3: No 1939-1945 badge present, so could be pre-end of war.


As a starting guess, this is person is most likely to have been based in or around Chesterton, Cambridgeshire.  Most likely a local lad/British, but could be from American forces as they were based up the road.
I'd like to think it's mum's "family/related photos", rather than "stranger/Yank that bought me a drink and wrote for awhile" :)  I think he certainly looks "local to the Chesterton, Cambridge area"


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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Re: Find My Past - pre emptive/predictive search problem?
« on: Monday 16 July 18 09:32 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: hallmark on Sunday 15 July 18 23:08 BST (UK)


What LANGUAGE is it set to?  English English or American English etc.....
Definitely our English, I did the setup myself and remember choosing British English, I always do.

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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Re: Find My Past - pre emptive/predictive search problem?
« on: Sunday 15 July 18 21:55 BST (UK)  »
Last week I bought a new PC with Win10 on it, moving over from XP Home.

I noticed that it's very annoying when you try to overtype things and I've been struggling with lots of randomly appearing autocorrects too.

No idea when it does it, so couldn't absolutely replicate the behaviour .... but it's annoying.

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Armed Forces / Re: Absent Voter's Roll (1918)
« on: Sunday 15 July 18 21:53 BST (UK)  »
Ancestry has some, but, like all records, it's hit and miss if you're lucky enough that your area of interest is included.

https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61320

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Gloucestershire / Re: CWGC Appeal for relatives of Private John Knight
« on: Friday 13 July 18 21:50 BST (UK)  »
Is that the one whose body was found in a well at Moreton Green?
Lived with his wife at Whitminster... suffered from trench fever and shell shock ... sent home October 1917 and certified insane?

Drowned in a fit of insanity.  Poor blighter. 

It was declared scandalous to have sent him home in that state. The Coroner added a rider to that effect.

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Cambridgeshire / Re: Papworth Everard help
« on: Friday 13 July 18 19:56 BST (UK)  »
I read that as meaning: "This is a document that is addressed to Gt Gransden, that the postman delivered at Gt Gransden.  This document confirms that Timothy and his wife are legally settled in Papworth Everard".

So it looks, to me, as if Tim and Anne are sitting in Gt Gransden either asking to be settled, or because the overseers think they might be a problem if they become chargeable... so Timothy and Anne had a meeting and Timothy said "I'm legally settled in Papworth", so Gt Gransden wrote to Papworth for confirmation and got a reply ... the reply being addressed to Gt Gransden.

I hope what I mean is clear :)

The document is dated 24 April 1734.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Heir Hunters new series
« on: Wednesday 11 July 18 23:48 BST (UK)  »
Hope it's not Buerke.... he makes me want to punch the screen.

I stopped bothering after a couple of episodes with him in it .... even when I had those on I wandered off and did other things... anything ... rather than watch it and listen to the dire script... utterly annoying it was.  Dumbed down to being unwatchable.

Heirhunters is no longer on my "must watch" list ....

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The Common Room / Re: "Who Do You Think You Are", Series 15: #2 Olivia Colman
« on: Wednesday 11 July 18 18:02 BST (UK)  »
The "trouble" with archives is - they don't know what they've got.

I'd imagine the programme makers might've contacted the archives with an outline of what they were there for ... so you do wonder if they did/not ... Harriet/husband's surname in the 1871 Census was the surname of the local solicitor whose papers the archives held.  An unusual name, so must have been easy to do a lookup of "Do you have anything in this odd name here?"

It does make you wonder how hard they really work on any case as I'd have thought, upon being contacted, the archives would've said "Well, we've 3 boxes of stuff from that family name ... might be something there if you want to dig about a bit". 

And/or maybe they've accepted offers of "dig about a bit" in the past, only to discover boxes of old tat ... and nothing relevant. 

I guess the budget gets blown on travel/hotels and not researchers at the archives... after all, that's all a bit "dusty and dull" ... when we could all be flying around the world and filming :)


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Family History Beginners Board / Re: 1939 register
« on: Wednesday 11 July 18 16:12 BST (UK)  »
Yes, as people's names changed over the years and they married their names were changed.

This list was the starting point of the NHS list - so, once registered, it was kept up to date with people's name changes.

You can only see them because when their death was registered somebody updated the records for that event.

It is helpful - I found one who'd married 3x and could trace her entire marriage future from the list, leading me to the correct death, rather than having the "guess" that she "might've married" - and when you get to three you think you must be wrong, so that'd have ended up as a dead end "dunno" person on the tree.

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