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The Common Room / Re: What to do with all my genealogical research?
« on: Monday 13 February 23 06:04 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for all your suggestions. You've given me a few suggestions I could follow up and you've tweaked my brain into remembering other avenues too............a precise of essential facts, keeping only a minimum of documents - maybe in book form. Also an investigative journalist I always meant to contact..........and the Centre d'histoire de la résistance et de la déportation in Lyon which covers the area my dad was in in 1943.
Thanks again to everyone.

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The Common Room / What to do with all my genealogical research?
« on: Sunday 12 February 23 20:06 GMT (UK)  »
What are others planning to do with their research? My children aren't interested and I hate to think of it all being thrown out. There is a possibility of archiving in a small museum on one side of my family. The research I am most proud of is about my father - he was born in France of a French mother and an English father with the surname of Jones! He died in West Africa when I was 10 and I knew very little about his life. It's a voyage of discovery as I've found he was almost certainly recruited by MI6 according to the chief archivist of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
I heard of a repository at the War Office but it already has too many personal research documents. Any ideas?

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The Common Room / Re: Trying to find mother's maiden surname
« on: Tuesday 28 June 22 06:39 BST (UK)  »
Thanks to everyone who has responded and provided information - your posts are brilliant. I'm just doing some casual research for a friend, so think he'll be very pleased. I haven't done any genealogy for some years and finding it very hard..............post-covid brain fog!! 

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Denbighshire / Re: Conway Mountain
« on: Monday 27 June 22 21:11 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Eli G on Friday 22 January 10 18:22 GMT (UK)
The caravan park is called Pendyffryn Caravan Park and is still there, close to the A55 (which wasn't built then.) It is in a place called Dwygyfylchi, next to Penmaenmawr. The mountain you climbed to get over to Conwy is called Alltwen.

My Nain - Gwendoline Roberts - lived on the top road, opposite this mountain which I climbed every day I was there. For a short time I went to Dwygyfylchi school............

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The Common Room / Re: Trying to find mother's maiden surname
« on: Monday 27 June 22 20:53 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Bookbox on Monday 27 June 22 20:50 BST (UK)
Quote from: linda51 on Monday 27 June 22 20:42 BST (UK)
Thanks. I thought the National Archives showed summaries of service records.

Not for WW2. They are gradually being transferred from the MoD, but it is a long-term project and will take several years.

Thanks again. Am I right in thinking Ancestry have some WWII service records available?

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The Common Room / Re: Trying to find mother's maiden surname
« on: Monday 27 June 22 20:42 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Bookbox on Monday 27 June 22 20:39 BST (UK)
Quote from: linda51 on Monday 27 June 22 20:32 BST (UK)
Information provided = Robert Pearson came from Newcastle and served in WWII - hence National Archives record and attempt to see if the Robert Pearson found showing birth in 1916, would have Ivy Williams shown as wife on his service record.

This isn’t a service record – it’s a POW index card, created in Germany in 1940, so it won’t show a marriage of 1945.

His service record will be held at the MoD, and next-of-kin can apply for it (by sending £30 and a copy of the death certificate). Takes several months to come through.
https://www.gov.uk/get-copy-military-service-records/apply-for-someone-elses-records

Thanks. I thought the National Archives showed summaries of service records.

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The Common Room / Re: Trying to find mother's maiden surname
« on: Monday 27 June 22 20:41 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Comberton on Monday 27 June 22 20:37 BST (UK)
This  looks like the Robert you found

Death
Robert William Pearson age 0
Dec 1914
Newcastle upon Tyne

Thanks...............he's obviously not the person I'm looking for.

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The Common Room / Re: Trying to find mother's maiden surname
« on: Monday 27 June 22 20:32 BST (UK)  »
Thanks BB.

Carole - I have a death registered Isle of Wight in 1989. Age 75. Birth year 1913-1914.

Am trying to identify the father of a friend - and the birth registration of the friend show Williams as MMN.  Friend's parents apparently got married in Bristol - hence registration: Ivy M Williams & Robert Pearson m 1st quarter 1945, Bristol, Gloucester.   Information provided = Robert Pearson came from Newcastle and served in WWII - hence National Archives record and attempt to see if the Robert Pearson found showing birth in 1916, would have Ivy Williams shown as wife on his service record.

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The Common Room / Re: Trying to verify marriage
« on: Monday 27 June 22 20:17 BST (UK)  »
Apologies - I have my mind on two different issues!! I'm trying to make sure the National Archives record is the Robert Pearson who married Ivy Williams in 1945. Would that information be shown on the full record?


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