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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Trying to find my uncle's biological father
« on: Sunday 17 July 22 12:20 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: jaywit on Sunday 17 July 22 10:32 BST (UK)
This link is very long but if you scroll down you will find most divisions were in Germany at the end of the war, but keep going, still some soldiers in The Netherlands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_divisions_in_World_War_II

Interesting, I wonder if he might have been part of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Will definitely look further into this, thanks.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Trying to find my uncle's biological father
« on: Sunday 17 July 22 09:56 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: jaywit on Sunday 17 July 22 09:52 BST (UK)
If your uncle was born in May 1946 then he would have been conceived around August 1945.

So after the war was ended. Which part of the Netherlands was he born in?

I am thinking that at that time British soldiers would have been possibly returning home.

There is a WW2 board on here and maybe if you can narrow down an area the experts on there may be able to suggest possible regiments.

OK If you come back with Amsterdam it could be more difficult.

I'm pretty sure it was in the Tilburg area in the south. I'll have a look at the WW2 board, thanks.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Trying to find my uncle's biological father
« on: Sunday 17 July 22 08:50 BST (UK)  »
My uncle hired a genealogist and they tested his DNA through Ancestry, MyHeritage, and FamilytreeDNA. The highest DNA match was 118cM, so not very high. They analysed the matches that were higher than 50cM and looked at their family trees and that's how they found the DNA clusters (so multiple matches with the same DNA and the same ancestors). I'm not sure about the exact process but they indicated that the ancestors from Shropshire are most likely common ancestors with my uncle and his biological father. Unfortunately that's all they could find so far.

I will have a look at the Leeds method, FindMyPast and some newspapers, thank you for the suggestions.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Trying to find my uncle's biological father
« on: Saturday 16 July 22 22:15 BST (UK)  »
I don't know the exact day but he was born in May 1946. I believe my grandfather's name is on his birth certificate.

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Family History Beginners Board / Trying to find my uncle's biological father
« on: Saturday 16 July 22 11:54 BST (UK)  »
Hello everyone,

I'm posting this in hopes that someone could point me in the right direction. I'm from The Netherlands and I have experience in Dutch genealogy research. However I'm currently trying to help my uncle find his biological father. My uncle is in his 70s and it turns out my grandmother got cozy with a (most likely) British soldier during the liberation of The Netherlands. My uncle did a DNA test confirming his British roots. We found 2 DNA clusters with common ancestors from the 1800s, mostly in the Shropshire area. They are Thomas Darrall (1801-1885) & Anne Turner (1819-1898) and William Boden (1801-1868) & Sarah Howell (1803-1869). With the help of Ancestry.com I've tried to find as many descendants as possible and now have a list of 115 possible candidates so far of which 32 are in a likely age range. Now, here's where I seem to get stuck. I wasn't able to find a military register online or anything else that could help me further narrow it down, but I might be looking in the wrong places. Any tips would be much appreciated!

Thanks,

J.

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