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Old 23-11-20, 08:51
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Default When there has been a tragedy

One of my aunt's DNA matches had a very brief online tree, but there was a mention of Portsmouth, so I thought this might be the link, and investigated....

1939 has a family of four, living in Coburg Street, Portsmouth. A bombing raid in January 1941 left only one surviving, and the neighbours dead as well. So many died that Churchill visited the city at the end of the month.

I cannot find what happened to that surviving child. In Croydon, such children were often shipped out to the colonies, and I suspect that happened here.

The connection here is not so significant as to warrant me contacting the match, but what would you do in such a case?
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