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Anyone else backing the new Lunar Mission? They're including a time capsule, which is to be buried on the moon - a great place for storing a family tree for the next billion years!

"The private archive will consist of millions and millions of individual digital ‘memory boxes’. As a Kickstarter supporter you can be among the first to reserve your place in space and secure a ‘memory box’. In time, you will be able to upload anything you want into your virtual ‘memory box’ just as you would with a real-world time capsule. Over the next 10 years, anyone around the world will be able to buy a ‘place in space’ – this is how we secure the longer term funding for the Mission. When we launch, all of this information will be inside the time capsule ready to be buried on the Moon."  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lunarmissionone/lunar-mission-one-a-new-lunar-mission-for-everyone/description

Think I'm going to go mad!

Trying to track down someone who worked at the former High Wood (Highwood) hospital in Brentwood during the 1950s.  But it's recently been turned into a housing development, so I can't just call them and ask!

Seems pre 1948 staff records went to the LMA. Fine. But according the the Nat ARch, post 1948, records stayed with the local PCT in Essex. Contacted them the other day but they said they don't hold them, and gave me a number for a contracting service whom they thought could help.  Just rang them. No use whatsoever.  They don't hold them either, they said.  They  put me in touch with the NHS research place near Southport, which was of no use either, but they mentioned a government appointed body called Traceline - whom I couldn't find a trace of at all!

Getting dizzy now. Anyone got any suggestions? Thanks.

Ann

Hi,

Just looking at a potential death (for my Olive Maud Winter who died in Torbay in 1996) on GR. Has anyone used these?

It says there's a transcription of it, but how much information do they give - is it worth me taking out a sub? Or is it little more than an index, which I can see elsewhere?

Thanks
Ann

 
Just seen this on FB

UK Ministry of Defence Search for Next of Kin.
 
The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) is searching for the family of Captain John H Pritchard, of the Honourable Artillery Company, who was killed in France on 15 May 1917.

Captain Pritchard’s remains were found near Bullecourt in France and recently identified. He is presently commemorated on Bay 1 of the Arras Memorial.
 
The last known addresses (circa 1917) for the family were in Harvard Court Hampstead, Bartholomew Lane and Cambridge Terrace, Hyde Park London.
 
Captain Pritchard was born on 25 March 1886 and joined up when he was 22 on 1 March 1909. His height is recorded as 5ft 9ins. It is believed he may have worked in the Alliance Assurance Co Ld in London.

Any members of the public who believe they can help or who may be related to Captain Pritchard, please contact the MOD on Tel: 01452 712612 Ext 6303 or by email at -

spva - dmsjccccommem SO3@mod.uk