Helen's Genealogy Journeys - Tracing My Ancestors Around the Globe

The Felting Sisters In an earlier blog, I talked about how my sisters and I, "The Felting Sisters", using the opportunity of an annual visit to talk about memories of our childhood. While the main focus of our time together was to enjoy some time experimenting with felt art, we took some time to talk about our memories from our childhood.  This year, we also decided to sort through some of the old childhood photos that our dad kept in a Rubbermaid bin.  We lived in many different places during our childhood so we decided to sort the photos by location.  We spent time trying to determine dates and location of each photo but eventually we were able to assign all of the photos to the correct zip-lock bag. Childhood photos sorted into location We ended up with about 13 packages starting with photos from Belize (1946-1954), to our first move to San Fernando, Trinidad (1954-1956).  Next we moved to Georgetown, Guyana (1956-1964), then back to San Fe...

Flying Officer Charles Anderson During the weeks leading up to this year's remembrance of the 75th anniversary of D-Day on June 6th, 1944, I was drawn into the drama, tragedy, and pivotal importance of this day for the allied forces in Europe. I knew however that I wanted to research what was happening on the India/Burma front at that time.  The reason for that is that my dad,  Charles Anderson, with the 11th Squadron of the Royal Air Force, was stationed in India at that time. He was a pilot flying a Hawker Hurricane ll C.    The Battles of Kohima and Imphal, which my dad took part in,  took place between April 4 and June 22, 1944.   It is interesting to me that, while the allies were landing on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944 (eventually pushing Hitler's troops back over the territories that they had recently captured), so too allied forces in India were also fighting to stop the Japanese advance into India and eventually to push th...