Lost WWII Paratrooper Remembered By His Mother’s Scrapbook | Finding Heroes | Ancestry®
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- Documentarian Wayne Abbott and Professor David O’Keefe discover how a mother’s scrapbook preserved the memory of her paratrooper son Manning Haney for over 75 years. visitancestry.com/3EIEvPs
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Have you discovered an artifact in your ancestor’s possessions? How have you been able to tie it to your family? Share your stories below!
It's not necessarily an artifact but I discovered that the grave of my 2nd great grandfather is still standing somewhere in Glasgow Scotland. As far as I know it's the only "artifact" left. His name and war stories were lost to my family and we were one generation away from losing that connection. Once I was able to trace back to his name, his war papers popped up on Ancestry.
Similar to Haney's scrapbook, my ancestor's entire WW1 military career was intact. Everything from the equipment he carried to the companies he served under was in the documents.
As a Canadian, Remembrance Day is a big deal in Canada. So being able to honour an ancestor whose story was nearly forgotten after almost 100 years is hard to fathom. I'll never know what he looked like or be able to visit his grave but his story will never be forgotten.
My grandfather served in WW1 blackwatch for England my mother told stories that she over heard about what happen . He was a runner age born in 1898 made him 16 one story is he was sitting on hill with his buddies and wizbang came over the hit his friend in the head. he turn then put a hanky over the headless friend. another is he jump in a hole that was used for the washroom with his kilt on had to ware it for a week. He was wounded 2x in the leg. saddy papa never talked about things to my mother . during ww2 he was sent up the Tyne river to the shipping yard to do iron work . sad thing nothing is been written down. When they immigrated to Canada, my understanding they lost his things . Not sure but I believe my brother was given couple things on his 21 birthday that he pass on to his girl. I have no records nothing . I DID ancestry to discover, our families stories. My mother was adopted in 1940, by the Dicksons ( it was my mothers adopted farther who served . I have messaged few matches of her birth family. mother birth name was Joy Mckinnon ( adopted name Jean Flora Dickson) I am interested in my family stories both birth family and adopted family. I lost my grandparents in the 70s and 80s Charles Dickson
1898-1975 BIRTH ABT 1898 • Galashiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland. Helen, Hilds, Sybal Swanson
1910-1986 BIRTH 21 NOV 1910 • Thurso, Caithness, Scotland My mother in April 2021 Jean Flora Dickson born 1940 in Troon Scotland. I like to put our family stories and photos in a book for the grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Wow, what an amazing discovery! Thanks for uncovering this and adding more to the story for your family, @Nicholas
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@@georginagibson9356 If you can find his service number for ww1 it should yield results. That's probably the most important piece of info. If you can find that then it should lead you to the other records.
The one thing that I'm sure still exists for your grandfather is the medal cards.
My heart is with the mother, who so lovingly preserved her son's story, only to have it set adrift in a rummage sale. I'm so happy and touched that her love was rescued and given a home, where her son's memory can live on.
And also the fact that her son's cousin is keeping his memory alive and has been thinking of him and researching him all these years.
Set adrift, but has found new life! We've loved seeing the preservation others have for stories such as this one.
Thank you for sharing this story of another hero from WW ll who finally gets recognized and remembered.
I being a Vietnam War Veteran 1966-67 I know how these guys feel about going back in time to this heroes life and death...
What a powerful experience- thank you for sharing, John!
My grandfather was killed in Germany April 1945 on his 26th birthday.. I have his Purple Heart, a framed picture in his uniform and a cloth with the same picture. I did some research and tried to trace his steps. I found out the approximate area he died. Since his body didn't return for 3 years I always wondered where he was during that time period.
WoW. I'm from Oregon and my dad lives in a town near Bend. So many folks over there have served, entire families, proudly. I cannot believe that all of that was in some rummage sale in a suitcase. The gentleman who saved it, is a prince!
What a story thank you. My father was captured in the weeks of battle of the bulge, and spent the remainder of the war in Stalag 5. For some unknown reason the Commander of the POW camp sent my grandmother my fathers jacket and a note stating that my dad had died. It was later when the Red Cross came in and my father was allowed to write home to tell the family he was alive.
What a powerful story to learn. We hope your family reuniting was a sweet one!
Thank you for your service
WoW, you picked the right relative. Like it was meant to be😊❤️
This was so sad yet empowering.
This is a great example of memories living on through others- whether it's family or otherwise, history matters!
People really never die if we don’t forget. Thank you for sharing this beautiful story of an interesting human being. I hope that his mother eventually found her peace.
This story brought me to tears. What a great story. So glad that this soldier has not been forgotten and his history will be preserved for future generations.
What a wonderful, heart-felt story! Thank you to the guys who pulled this together and made it possible for all of us to experience the humanity of this young WWII soldier...RIP. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for watching, Darlene!
We had a collection found in a city dumpster, got it back to children that had NO idea their dad their Dad was a Hero and served overseas! It was on many new media channels !
This is a beautiful story with a wonderful ending!
We're thrilled you think so, Ann Victoria! We hope you'll tune in to our next episodes as well ❤
Aww that was beautiful. What a story of a hero and fortunate for the man that saved the collection.x
So many photos and precious artifacts need careful consideration when folks clean out their homes.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful story
Amazing story. I am so glad it will be preserved for generations to come to learn about him and the history behind it. My father was in WWII but on the German side.
Thank you for doing these fantastic stories. How this treasure of a man’s life ends up at a garage sale is unbelievable. I had the same experience at a garage sale. I found an army uniform that the sellers had no information about. I purchased it, had it cleaned, donated it to my American Legion post. I just couldn’t stand the thought of it being thrown away.
Hi, we are a glad to see that you enjoyed this video.
It's a shame some people don't understand the importance of keeping these treasures together and in a respectful place
Thanks for these touching stories , helping families heal
What an amazing story. So touching in every way. Thank goodness for the gentleman who realized the worth of the suitcase contents he found at a rummage sale. And how sweet and honorable that the relative presented the photo and flag to the museum so that everything could be kept together. Part of me wishes it could have all gone back to the States with the cousin, but it feels right to be where it is as well.
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Ancestry is trying to make me cry with this episode. This is truly beautiful!
Thanks for watching! We hope you enjoy what's next, as well 😁
During WWII, Denver, Colorado’s Lowrey Army Air Field was a major training facility for bomber crews preparing to deploy to combat. Placed at the edge of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, it was not a training area without its risks and hazards. There was a cynical but cautionary saying within the training cadre that “The clouds have rocks in them”; a warning to new crews that when the weather turned bad during training, you had to remember where the mountains were. Too many crews lost their Ives on training missions, as there are estimated to be perhaps as many as 100 WWII bomber wrecks in the mountains of Colorado.
They are mostly B-17s and B-24s… the Flying Forts and Liberators that were the backbone of our strategic air forces during the war. The practice of the Air Corps at the time was to recover the bodies of crew, and whatever armaments were on the planes, and leaving (after sometimes detonating with explosives) the wrecks themselves. They remain in the remote wilderness, unvisited except by mule deer, mountain lion and moose.
Several years ago, a small group of Army buddies (to include yours truly) began the tradition of hiking to some of these wrecks for the purpose of honoring the crews whose lives were lost. These are not casual trail hikes, but difficult cross-country treks to sites that were usually quite remote, even when close to the front range. After documenting the sites, toasting the crew, and when possible, leaving behind memorials, it was always my responsibility to document the hike on Facebook, sometimes posting hundreds of pictures taken by all the team members. I would then try and find descendants or other family members of the loved and lost, contact them, and share what we had found.
My single most important tool for finding family has always been Ancestry. After finding crew manifests in the records of the Air Force or national Archives, I was usually able to find about 80% of the identified crew in public Ancestry family trees. Through Ancestry, I would then contact the owners of those trees in the usually good assumption that they were relatives. The responses were invariably filled with great surprise, gratitude, and were always deeply moving.
We take no artifacts from the sites, though there are many that could be taken. They are sacred places, and now protected by Colorado antiquity laws. Most are never visited, others by a mere handful of people every few years. All are memorials to the cost of war, and the cause of peace.
I'm not sure why nobody has thumbed-up your comment until now. You and your friends are doing a great service to the memory of those soldiers and their families.
May I make a suggestion? Since you're the chronicler, please consider writing a book about your efforts. I, for one, left social media several years ago. I'm sure future researchers would appreciate some kind of published record that they could access without social media. And, even if you've contacted the direct families, there may be others who discover your chronical and the names solve a brick wall for them. It would be much easier for them to come across that information outside of FB.
Beautiful story! Thanks for sharing!
Loved hearing from Professor O’Keefe on this series!
What a beautiful ending to a sad story. It reminds me of my family's stories of my uncle and cousin's experience of the war and their search for family members in the camps. Lest we forget.
Thank you for this sweet and powerful story! Blessings to all.
I’m not crying; tying not to cry. I’m the daughter of a Marine dad WW11 and my mom, an Army nurse, WW11. I also am a nurse and she gave me her navy blue uniform cape, which I wore when pregnant with her first granddaughter. I lent the cape to a friend but was never able to get it back. I have my dad’s uniform hat and jacket. I wish I had my mom’s cape.
Beautiful tribute!
Beautiful story
Such a heartwarming beautiful story….thanks for telling it
We have a small military museum in Brevard N.C. we have become somewhat of a dumping ground for Old Uniforms that families no longer want, sometimes it's so sad..
Had me crying. I am touched
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More please. I’d rather see this than all the celebrities you share.
We're so glad you enjoyed it, TJR! Thanks for letting us know!
Amazing story! Thank you for sharing!
We're glad you enjoyed it, Karen. 😊
Just amazing
Thank you Sir RIP🙏and to your family for your service and sacrifice🇺🇸
My siblings were in the military,this is a beautiful story
I found my great-grandmothers diary. She passed away right after giving birth to my paternal grandad at just 21 back in 1912.
I adore it. She was funny. On the inside of the cover she wrote “Private. Anyone who reads this is trash!”
As a reverends daughter, she was quite the character. Sneaking out and complaing about how boring it was to move from NYC to rural Connecticut.
Also, she tells the story of meeting her husband (my great-grandfather) but talking in “code” so if anyone in her family read it they wouldn’t know 😊
It’s sad because it ends right before she passed. We both had the same style of writing too. I’m sure if we had lived during the same time we would have been friends. Though I was born in the 1980’s and she in 1889. I’m just glad to have her journal. She still lives on through me even if I never had a chance to meet her.
Hi, how wonderful that you have found a connection to your great grandmother through her diary!
How very sad!
Oh,my the 48 star flag!
Wow never knew the young man but have to admit had tears on my face
The whole group involved in this show deserves a huge pat on the back for the great work involved
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Aw! I cried! How beautiful.
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Wow! How amazing! It is
Incredible story!
I am from the area from Arnhem born and raised. Operation Market Garden is very well known. Plus they filmed nearby, when i was just a toddler, the movie "A Bridge to Far", Have seen planes, and trucks and tanks back then. Especially around Oosterbeek a click away from Arnhem.
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Hi, thanks for watching!
An Amazing story!!!
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What an amazing story, thank you for sharing 💓 Keepsakes like this is priceless! Love that his mother put everything in a scrapbook and that the sweet man did what he did ❤️
Hi Barb, thanks for watching! We are glad to see that you enjoyed the video.
@@AncestryUS I'll definitely will be watching more of these videos 💓My great grandfather on my dad's side was in the war and I was given a piece of war documentation from a cousin. Through Ancestry, I was able to fine more war documents which was so cool! I never met my grandfather, he passed when my dad was 12 at the age of 56. Unfortunately my dad didn't talk much about his family. Wishing I was more involved in Ancestry when I was younger and asked my parents more on their family history. Again thanks, love that you're making this happen for families💓Would love if they did this in other Countries!
Hi again Barb, that sounds like a great discovery! We wish you all the best with your family history research.
This was a sad and wonderful story. Thank you. ♥️🙏🏼🙏🏾🙏🙏🏽🙏🏿🙏🏻♥️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thank you for watching, Debbie!
Can’t even lie I shed a tear watching this video. God bless our troops 🇺🇸 from my country to yours
Thank you so much for watching!
So many died for our freedom
My father, Fredrick Malcom Taylor McCalmont, was 82nd Airborne, Pathfinder. I have two artifacts from his collect, 1st a full size Nazi battle flag. 2nd i have a dollar bill signed by all the men who jumped with him the night before D-day. William McCalmont
Wow, this is a great story…. Wow….
I wish someone could find one of my great uncles little diary about his time during the war but relatives say it was stolen by the cleaning lady
We hope that with time, a possession like this will turn up and be returned to your family!
@@AncestryUS well it’s been missing since the early or mid 90s to what my mom told me 93 to 95 was the last time she saw it
I wish they had a picture of his mom as well :(
what happened to mom...no siblings? how did this creation of love end up in a rummage sale
I would love to know why someone in that family sold that scrapbook etc to that man? Heartless 😢!
I have a handmade oak drop leaf table made by 2nd great grandfather about 1852.
This sounds gorgeous!
They look so similar too. That's so strange.
But who threw it away? Can they find out who did?
The #1 video go USA🇺🇸
I actually have a question related to the video. The museum had everything, including his purple heart, but the 3rd cousin had the 48 star flag. How might that have happened? I ask because my immediate family has a 48 star flag that I think belongs to a cousin that died in WWII. I think my great grandmother received the flag because he listed her as his next of kin on his draft card. However, his mother received his posthumous purple heart. I can see that on his military death certificate. Is what I am thinking happened feasible?
The cousin evidently was given the flag by someone - or he bought it.
I’ve been saying this for years and will keep saying it… ancestry needs tags like Instagram does where the name pops up under the person.. my grandfather has pictures with his friends and remembers all their names.. if I type in the spelling of their name it could be a picture someone else never knew ex sister of their family member. Suck and easy thing to install yet ancestry doesn’t do it…
After losing those artifacts, why would family not want them back?
Volume is way too low.
My grandfather fought in the Vietnam war my mother doesn’t know much. He was from Spain and her mother from Puerto Rico. I’m doing the DNA kit soon to help me understand where I come from but I would love to find out more about my moms father and his history. How can I go about this ? Should I have her take a DNA test as well?
Hi Evelise and thank you for reaching out to us. We can understand your desire to find out as much as possible about your families history. In order to form a clearer picture of your mothers paternal family, it may be a good idea to have your mother tested too. While you taking the test may well be enough, your mothers results would provide more detailed information, especially when it comes to the DNA matches as you are more interested in delving into one side in particular. Please get back to us if you have any questions.
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