‘i used dna to find my grandfather, and traced his war medals’

One of the major reasons people take a DNA test is to find a ‘missing’ ancestor. It may be that they have no knowledge of their family due to adoption or were brought up by a single parent with no inf

Puzzles fascinate me, so when I discovered that my father was adopted I longed to know more of the story. The quest began in 1989 before the Web, and has involved determination, heartache, slammed doo

QMargaret Woodhall (née Smithson), born c1827 Liverpool (according to the 1851 census), was the sister of my great grandfather, James Murray Smithson, born c1835 in Edinburgh. Their father was William

Email wdytyaeditorial@ourmedia.co.uk Write to WDYTYA? Magazine, Eagle House, Bristol BS1 4ST I wanted to share a postcard that my father, Philip Barker, sent to my mother, Joan, while he was serving a

A Ukrainian PoW’s story Dmytro Chorny had been ...

July’s magazine featured a review of Max Hastings’s book Sword: D-Day Trial by Battle, alongside an iconic photograph of British troops. That image has featured so many times in articles and TV shows