Sent a few more in today but have not gone mad just mopping up the more recent ones for my family. Most of my lot didn't make wills it seems I think the difference for my parents' generation came when people were able to buy their council house so had something to leave! #FamilyHistory

Yes I am out of practice now I am retired 😹 Revisiting my own family history research with a view to writing up some of it starting with my parents and grandparents Been a while since I did military stuff but it is all coming back to me

Also, you might pick up someone else’s research on them online, and accounts or letters and News cuttings of their story, to fill in gaps on your man’s story.

I do this quite a lot. I think it’s important to get the whole picture as much as possible, including the father and son killed alongside Luther McKechnie:

https://menofworth.org.uk/luther-mckechnie/

I always do this and follow up the names to, for example, local newspapers. There are often letters or other info that give more detailed insight than a war diary could.

Yes I was a bit surprised that I had not thought to do this before - oh actually I have for a video I made in lockdown 🙀 - getting old and forgetting things in retirement it seems now I don't do research on a daily basis

/2 and it would add extra interest to ancestor stories - those 10 Other Ranks who died on the same day would now have names - for those who survived a particular battle I would have names for their fallen comrades No idea why I never thought of this before 🙀 #Remembrance #familyhistory #writing

It is always worth (for English research 😺) checking what the archive local to your family holds - once I discovered the draft copy of an ancestor's earlier will, kept in his executor's family papers, which differed from the later one. You don't have to visit you can request a copy #genealogy

Just to say that although this service maybe the only avenue for more recent wills in England for others check whether the local Record Office/Archive has copies on microfilm/fiche - a visit with a memory stick or printer copies might be more cost-effective!

Yes it is! Time to get out my to do list again!

Not my #OnePlaceStudy but some of my ancestors were Grocers Company members, Citizens and Aldermen in Tudor and Elizabethan London so one research goal will be to find out more about them and about the City of London at that time #OnePlaceWednesday

Now so do I 😹

Ancestral Trails by Mark Herber

Or been raised on The Beano, The Eagle's Dan Dare and of course imported American comics like Superman/Green Lantern etc Storyboarding made easy 😹

Yes words on the page are definitely a good thing Cut and paste is your friend In the old days I could only write with pen and paper you can imagine the hassle trying to rearrange - it might be why I write around images - sort of comicbook style - as easier to do on separate pages?