RootsChat.Com

General => Armed Forces => Topic started by: Davy Boy on Tuesday 10 January 23 22:46 GMT (UK)

Title: Illegitamte children born in Austria, fathered by British forces in 1944/45
Post by: Davy Boy on Tuesday 10 January 23 22:46 GMT (UK)

I have been contacted by a distant cousin whose father was a British serviceman.
He has no knowledge of who his father was and, due to DNA, discovered the paternity issue.
He was born in 1945 and the conception was made during the non-fraternisation period.
How do we find what regiments/forces were in the Carinthia region during that time.
The mother (Austrian)was a nurse in a lost persons/refugee camp. The camps were run by thhe British.
Can anyone help us/give advice please.

David

Title: Re: Illegitamte children born in Austria, fathered by British forces in 1944/45
Post by: tonepad on Wednesday 11 January 23 06:48 GMT (UK)

BAOR Locations - Austria:

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01s1a/


Tony

Title: Re: Illegitamte children born in Austria, fathered by British forces in 1944/45
Post by: tonepad on Wednesday 11 January 23 08:29 GMT (UK)

If British forces first entered Austria in May 1945, any British fathered children were not likely to be born before February 1946.


Tony

Title: Re: Illegitamte children born in Austria, fathered by British forces in 1944/45
Post by: brigidmac on Wednesday 11 January 23 08:43 GMT (UK)

He could have been fathered by someone on diplomatic services or other reason for being in Austria .
It might be better to look at British matches and find common ancestors or surnames

Can you tell from your shared matches which of your ancestors he links to

From that he could do a surname search of all your 4x ggparents on that side to see if any other matches have those surnames ontheir trees.

Also suggest doing location search amongst matches if not already been done

Title: Re: Illegitamte children born in Austria, fathered by British forces in 1944/45
Post by: brigidmac on Wednesday 11 January 23 08:46 GMT (UK)

Apologies I assumed DNA test was on ancestry

Whichever site he tested with I recommend downloading results to as many other sites as possible including GED match to find more matches

Title: Re: Illegitamte children born in Austria, fathered by British forces in 1944/45
Post by: Andy J2022 on Wednesday 11 January 23 11:36 GMT (UK)

I'm not clear why the nationality of the father is being assumed as British. DNA cannot tell you that with any accuracy.  It is merely a percentage of likelihood based on the self-selecting group of people who have tested with a particular company. Given the intermixing within the North European populations, especially the Germanic population, these 'ethnicity' results are highly speculative.

Title: Re: Illegitamte children born in Austria, fathered by British forces in 1944/45
Post by: Davy Boy on Wednesday 25 January 23 17:47 GMT (UK)

Hello again,
Sorry for the delay.
Richard, in Austria, advises me he was conceived in 1945 and born in 1946. All his mother could tell him was, that his father was a British serviceman. He would like, before he dies, is to find who his father was.
I know, as an ex-serviceman, that if a servceman got a woman pregnant, and did not wish to take the relaionship further, he would get posted.
I do not know if this was the case!
It would be interesting to know what British troops were in the area at the time and, who were the troops in the displaced persons/refugee camp at that time!