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World War Two / Re: RNVR World War Two
« on: Wednesday 06 February 19 15:45 GMT (UK) »Service records for people serving after 1920 are still with the MOD.
But there is a National Archives guide here:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/royal-naval-volunteer-reserve-personnel/
Many thanks for your prompt reply. I have now chatted with the National Archives and they have pointed me to a couple of websites but my problem is that I do not have a name! All I know is that this person came from Sunderland. As you can see this makes it very complicated.
I just wanted to say that I have found the person in question and many thanks for your help.
VDP
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Could DNA testing help me find my birth father?
« on: Wednesday 06 February 19 15:32 GMT (UK) »Thank you all very much indeed for your replies. I shall work my way through them when I have a bit more time to spare but in the meantime again many thanks.
VDP
I just wanted to say to all those who replied to me that I have, after 30 years of searching, found him! I can still hardly believe it but wanted to thank you all again very much for trying to help me.
VDP
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Could DNA testing help me find my birth father?
« on: Saturday 26 January 19 10:24 GMT (UK) »
Thank you all very much indeed for your replies. I shall work my way through them when I have a bit more time to spare but in the meantime again many thanks.
VDP
VDP
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World War Two / Re: RNVR World War Two
« on: Friday 25 January 19 16:59 GMT (UK) »Service records for people serving after 1920 are still with the MOD.
But there is a National Archives guide here:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/royal-naval-volunteer-reserve-personnel/
Many thanks for your prompt reply. I have now chatted with the National Archives and they have pointed me to a couple of websites but my problem is that I do not have a name! All I know is that this person came from Sunderland. As you can see this makes it very complicated.
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Could DNA testing help me find my birth father?
« on: Friday 25 January 19 16:40 GMT (UK) »
For many years now I have been trying to find my birth father and don't seem to make any progress. When my birth mother gave me up for adoption she said that my presumed father, who was in the RNVR and based in the Port of Aden in 1939 was apparently from Sunderland.
I recently did my DNA test in the hope that I would get some encouraging results but so far nothing.
Can anyone please help me?
I recently did my DNA test in the hope that I would get some encouraging results but so far nothing.
Can anyone please help me?
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World War Two / RNVR World War Two
« on: Friday 25 January 19 15:51 GMT (UK) »
A long shot ...
Would anyone know if there was a list of the people who belonged to the RNVR in Word War Two, please? And if so how I could access it?
VDP
Would anyone know if there was a list of the people who belonged to the RNVR in Word War Two, please? And if so how I could access it?
VDP
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Northumberland / Re: Herbert Laban GRAVES descendants
« on: Friday 07 December 18 17:10 GMT (UK) »Does anyone know if there are descendants of Herbert Laban (b Newcastle 1899) and Alice Emily GRAVES in Newcastle? To my knowledge their children were Ronald Laban, Lillian May, Roy Herbert and Ann Christine.
VDP
This is my Grandfathers family my mother is Ann Christina graves married Charles Thomas davies if you need to contact her I can give you the details please reply back Teresa Darke (davies)
Hello Teresa Darke (nee Davies) and thank you for your reply.
I would love to contact your mother, Christine, but you need to post three messages in order for me to be able to contact you via a Private Message. Please do not post your mother's contact details on here until you have done so as they would not be private.
Also, I believe I have already been in touch in the past with your brother (in Sydney) and sister but our correspondence has petered out ......
VDP
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The Common Room / Re: PORT OF ADEN 1939
« on: Sunday 11 November 18 17:30 GMT (UK) »If you have a name, tracing his RNVR record via the MoD may be the way forward.
But if you browse through the hierarchy of files you may yet find something interesting, perhaps under the Chief Secretary. http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/7d807f72-ee39-43db-86ed-2812db614c35 However nothing is online so it will mean time spent in the British Library.
Thank you for your prompt reply.
I have no name which is my big problem.
Also, do you mean time at the British Library or at the National Archives? I shall enjoy going to either but just need to know!
VDP