I have been dealing with an interesting issue lately involving my husbands grandfathers family tree. Working with details I had been given about his life I was happily researching what I believed to be his family. I had his birth certificate so I was working from a primary source and was steadily adding facts, dates, people and places and quite happy with the results for a while. I had been told that he spent a good part of his childhood in Glasgow and that he had served in the First World War and had been a Prisoner of War. Then in the 1920's he took up a job as a Prison Warder in Malaya. He became engaged and in 1928 married Violet Helen Marguerite Murray in Singapore. The stories were that the marriage was greatly affected by the death of their oldest son and broke down although they didn't divorce. When Singapore fell in 1942 he was working as a Prison Officer at Changi and while he got his wife and son Ronald on a boat to England he remained behind. ...
My genealogy journey.