I use Ancestry.com as my main research starting point and, depending what I’m looking for, I don’t usually look at every single hint that they offer. But sometimes I do, if I’m just browsing for background stories. A couple of months ago I found an outward passenger list for Uncle Percy and Auntie Ethel - heading off to Palma, Majorca on the ‘Johan Van Oldenbarnevelt’ in June 1936. I didn’t think much of it at the time, it was some years after they got married so not a honeymoon, so I just saved it to my Ancestry page and moved on.
This week I have been focusing on sorting out the shoeboxes full of old postcards and photographs and I came across a post card of the very same ship! My memory isn’t great so if it had been much longer ago that I saw the passenger list I might not have remembered it.
On the back is a short message from Ethel to her mother saying ‘We are just arriving at Gibraltar. We are having a wonderful trip, very nice ship, this is a picture of it, Love Ethel’. And of course on the other back panel is her mother’s address - a useful clue for future research. .
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