Hi,
I have a family legend that tells of my great uncle born in 1895, who went away to fight in the war, met an African girl and fell in love, he emigrated and married her. Obviously I don't have much to go on, I know his date of birth, parentage, where he was born, siblings. But not much else, I don't even know which War he was in, but think it was WW1, what can I do to try and start some sort of research on this character, my Mum was the prson who told me the story, but sadly she now has alzheimers so can no longer help me with my research. Only her youngest 2 siblings are still alive, and neither of them new of the story, because my Mum was older than them, she knew alot more of the family stories than they did, and she told them too me, I am now trying to follow up some of them. I know this is a needle in a haystack job, but any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Sarah