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The Common Room / Re: Why so much Scottish DNA?
« on: Sunday 07 April 24 11:52 BST (UK)  »
A recent consultation by my with a top consultant revealed poly myalgia is x 20 as prevalent in the UK as it is in France.  The reason for this is because the Vikings did not make much of an impression in France whereas they were quite successful at establishing themselves in the north of Britain.
Not so in the south west where hundreds of the remains of Viking raiders in mass graves have been discovered.

For the record. I think  highly unlikely that DNA sampling will ever tell anything specific to those at the  level of ameuter family researcher. It is a nice not so little earner for the likes of Ancestry.

‘Dam lies and statistics.’

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The Common Room / Re: Problem with Ancestry
« on: Sunday 07 April 24 11:37 BST (UK)  »
Another unintended consequence of Britain’s special relationship with the North Americans.

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The Common Room / Re: FindMyPast special Easter offer 30% off
« on: Friday 05 April 24 09:03 BST (UK)  »
Be warned.
FR can be synonymous with drug addiction.

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The Common Room / Re: RAF Air Training Corps Unit Records
« on: Thursday 04 April 24 14:56 BST (UK)  »
So was my father.

He frequented the drill hall in the postwar years,and I suspect, may have attended AATC sessions there before 1943.

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The Common Room / Re: RAF Air Training Corps Unit Records
« on: Thursday 04 April 24 12:24 BST (UK)  »
I want to check out the possibility of any personal involvement that anyone in my family may have had.
My family have strong links with what could be the origial Drill Hall and when it was in the Uxbridge Road.

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The Common Room / Re: RAF Air Training Corps Unit Records
« on: Tuesday 02 April 24 15:35 BST (UK)  »
As an aside, small world.my mother’s father, or, one of his brothers probably had associations to Bowyer with regards to building.

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The Common Room / Re: RAF Air Training Corps Unit Records
« on: Tuesday 02 April 24 15:19 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Andy.

the same preliminary search found

deputycoroner, said the motor-car he was driving on Friday night was a 12h.p. one. He, company of apprentice named Joseph Alfred West, took the car along the Cireneester-road as far the railway bridge, and then returned to Tetbury. As approached towards ...
Published: Saturday 15 March 1913

I thought it a bit early to be the same J.A.W.
Halton may be?

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The Common Room / Re: RAF Air Training Corps Unit Records
« on: Tuesday 02 April 24 15:02 BST (UK)  »
Please could somebody take a look the and see if there is anything related to op?

Air Training Nation-wide recruiting for the Air Training Corps, the new Air Corps for boys from 18 to 18, will begin on February Ist (to-morrow—Saturday). Bucks boys anxious to join the new Corps should make ...
Published: Friday 31 January 1941
Newspaper: Buckinghamshire Examiner

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The Common Room / Re: RAF Air Training Corps Unit Records
« on: Tuesday 02 April 24 14:38 BST (UK)  »
I can not understand why a search for Squadron Leader Joseph Alfred WEST brings up details
(65739), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve ..

but they are not on the link when it is opened


https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/39243/supplement/3069/data.pdf

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