There are many ways to try to preserve family stories from long ago, but this one gets a gold medal as far as I am concerned! The story of love letters written between Gladys 'Gladdie' Woodland and Leslie Atwill, both from Cardiff, over a hundred years ago during the First World War, is being preserved in a song written by Glady’s great-grandaughter Amy Goddard. It has already reached the semi final of a UK Songwriting competition.
For more on the story visit
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/musician-writes-song-inspired-letters-10118314.
Nice one!
Chris
For details on my genealogy guide books, including my recently released
Discover Irish Land Records and
Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, please visit
http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html. My Pinterest account is at
https://www.pinterest.com/chrismpaton/.
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