During WW2 my Father was in the Royal Navy, he was posted out to Australia and was billited with a family called Chandler. I still have the letters and photographs that were exchanged between the two families after my Dad returned home. Over the years I have looked at the photographs and wondered what had happened in their lives and whether they remembered my Dad.
This week I decided to post a message on Rootschat to see if anyone could suggest ways of finding out more about them.....I didn't even know their Christian names and the only fact I knew was that their Daughter Sylvia had died in 1950.

The members of Rootschat were fantastic and went to a lot of trouble to to search newspapers and cemetery registers. I now know that they family were originally from London and had only emigrated in 1921. Through Find my Past and Ancestry I have traced them back to the mid 1800's in London.

The saddest thing about it is that Mrs. Chandler only died in 1998 at the age of 103 and had I made contact earlier I may have been able to contact her direct and let her know about our Family.....so the moral is if you think about contacting someone do it before its to late!!!

You certainly got a comprehensive response. Luck old you J. P