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  • November editions of the FTF Online Magazine

    It seems appropriate today to remind you about the special editions of the FTF Magazine which we produced each November.
    They are a mixture of advice about researching military ancestors, personal accounts of the authors' wartime experiences and stories with military themes.

    November 2007 ~ Military


    Our November issue has a military theme. The lead story and its related articles describe how to use a variety of military records in researching your family history. In other articles, Georgette writes about a relative who served in Lucknow, KiwiChris tells us about her great great grandmother who was at Scutari and Christine in Herts describes how she was able to persuade the Commonwealth War Graves Commisssion to amend the details of Great Uncle Cecil.

    In addition, Wendy Pusey tells us about the gun carriage which finished up in somebody's garden, guest author Dawn Lewcock shares her wartime memories of Buckinghamshire and Guinevere recounts her day at the LDS Roadshow in Coventry.





    November 2008 ~ Remembering Military Ancestors

    This year marks the 90th anniversary of the signing of the armistice which brought an end to the hostilities and bloodshed of the First World War on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Those killed in both World Wars, as well as many others over the centuries including those in more modern times, will be remembered this Remembrance Sunday so we felt it most fitting that we should make this a special Remembering Military Ancestors issue.

    We have an excellent research guide to tracing your military ancestors and stories from members going back over 200 years, from the Battle of Trafalgar, the Peninsular War and the Crimea, through to the First and Second World Wars, covering the three services of the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force.

    In two moving stories we take a look at World War Two from two very different perspectives, that of a soldier and of a child. We also look at an act of remembrance and a trip to the war cemeteries of Belgium to find the name of a great uncle on a memorial.

    For the My Town feature this month, we focus on Chatham and its naval connections which go back over 400 years.

    As a taster for our December issue, which has a theatrical theme, samesizedfeet explains why her growing collection of theatre memorabilia is her particular family treasure.




    November 2009

    The theme for our November edition is Scotland and Ireland. Velma Dinkley describes what is available on Family Tree Forum to help in both areas. Researching any ancestors can be tricky and time consuming, but Irish research can be particularly difficult. Janet writes about her research into her Irish relations, which began in 1990, along the way solving some puzzles and discovering some fascinating connections with Irish history. kathsgirl.48 describes her search, over five years, for the ancestors of her grandparents who lived in Dublin City. Macbev and wulliam write about Scots who travelled far afield, one settling in Australia and the other who spent his life at sea.

    To mark Remembrance Sunday, we have two articles; one from Just Barbara who writes about tank crews and Simon in Bucks describes the ceremonies at the Cenotaph in November 2008. The featured location this time is the village of Imber on Salisbury Plain where jenoco's relations lived until they were moved out by the army in 1943.

    In addition, borobabs tells the story of her day out to find the place where her husband's ancestor farmed in 1841, which was not without its difficulties. The family treasure is Grandma's Tea Set described by Yorkshire Lady.






    November 2010


    The November issue has a military theme, this time particularly looking at World War Two.

    Our lead article comes from Janet, who vividly describes her childhood in Devon during the war, Chrissie Smiff tells us of her husband's wartime experiences as a child in Wales, and Jill Harwood describes the life of local children and evacuees in Haywards Heath through the log books of St Wilfrid's CP School.


    anniern describes the part played by one of her mother's cousins in the struggle to keep the nation fed, while in the meantime, Len of the Chilterns was serving in the Army.

    Simon writes about his great uncle who served in both World Wars, Velma Dinkley writes about Newhaven Fort and its role in defending the English coast, and also tells us about a very special clothes brush which belonged to her grandmother.


    We have an article about the Halifax explosion in 1917 from jenoco and jennie tells us about a member of her husband's family who was awarded a Victoria Cross in World War One.
    Caroline
    Caroline's Family History Pages
    Meddle not in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
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