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Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Researching your family tree - useful books and websites


In the grandparent book I found a comment by my late father: We put paper on our windows. I thought this was because they could not afford curtains. However, I learned otherwise when I told a friend, David, who is a retired ENT doctor (ear, nose and throat) specialist). he was a small child in WW2. He said that in the period when bombs were falling on London you put

 paper over windows to protect yourself against flying glass. 

I asked, "Newspaper? Or brown paper bags?"

He replied, "If you didn't have any suitable paper, you might do that. But you could buy special paper designed for the purpose.pasted semi-transparent paper. The paper was sold with a glue backing."

Now I have much more detailed information about WWII for my family history, or the novel based on my family history.

 Useful websites

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/cs/ancestry-family

https://www.findagrave.com/

https://myheritage.com/dna/complete

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