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Week 19 (May 6 th -12 th ): Service From Amy Johnson Crow -   Military service might be the first thing to come to mind with this week's prompt. However, you don't have to go that route. Any service station owners in the family tree? (I'm raising my hand on that one!) How about someone who served their church, school, or community? For this weeks theme of “ service ” I have decided to use an ancestor that served in the army and died in “ service ” for his county. This person is my 1 st cousin 3times removed James Lackey. James was born in Saintfield, Ireland in November 1892. His parents are not known, but I have found a possible record of a baptism with mother only listed, meaning father unknown and his mother would have been my 2nd great grandfathers sister. He moved from Ireland at some-point between his birth and the 1901 census over to West Rainton, Durham where he lived with his Uncle and Aunt, Robert & Mary Lackey, as he is listed on the 19...

From Amy Johnson Crow - Who in your research has been nearly forgotten? Another angle you could take: using a record that was nearly forgotten. For this  week’s theme of “ nearly forgotten ” I have decided to go with my Great Uncle Victor A (? Arthur after his father) Bland/Thompson. The main times he has ever been mentioned is at funerals as “the deceased brother of……”, therefore to me he seems “ nearly forgotten ”, only once did my Nan Doreen Bland talk about him (and that was only as I questioned her on him). Victor has been quite a mystery (and still is). Word from Doreen was that he was born a few years before her, so about 1922-24, he was in the Royal Navy and died at sea in the 1940’s. It is not known whether he is a “Bland” (supposed Mother’s maiden name) or a Thompson (supposed Fathers na...