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I've been drawn to look at some names on my online trees.  I haven't checked everything but have noticed that Mr Nobody has incorrectly "corrected" the spellings of my kin.   Against the names of my kin that I have documentation to back the facts and additionally the ancestors involved are not some distant past shadows, they died when I was a baby.

What is the point of some people's actions of altering information that is backed up by documentation.

What drew these people on familysearch.org to "amend" my grandfather's middle Scottish names "Stephenson Dalglish"  to "Stevenson Dalgliesh" and what caused myheritage the amendment of my gt. grandmother's surname to "Mumford" instead of her actual surname of "Munford"?

I thought I'd lost this image of my grandmother's uncle forever, but it's turned up on a calendar that I made about 20 years ago.  It has now yellowed with age and there's a white splodge on it.

When I alter the image to grayscale the face merges into the background, so I'm hoping somebody can enhance his features. 

Thank you for reading this.

I hope the badge is clear.  This was my late mother's brother John David Shearing born 1916 in Hull, Yorkshire.  I was told he was in Palestine and when he died late 1990s he had a guard of honour from the Desert Rats.  I don't know the year because both my parents had died and I was living in a different county so didn't learn of his death until I saw it whilst researching.   I couldn't find him in the 1939 Register so don't know if he had been called up.

     I was taught; "Jaw, Jaw, Jaw, not "War, War, War", thus, when necessary, have spent my life pouring oil on troubled waters, so to speak.

I was horrified to see how fearsome my Scottish Highland ancestors were.  For instance the Browns of Perthshire were known cattle thieves and the Mackenzie Clan didn't get to own castles and swathes of Scottish Highlands by batting their eyelids.   

Since the plight of the Ukrainians has been broadcast, I've been overcome with a desire to put on a pair of seven league boots, get myself an AK47 and join locals in their defence of their land and democratic freedom of speech.