For my personal investigation I will be focusing on people and things effected by World War II, with this I have come up with 2 ideas;

The first – My work is situated on a farm, which has been in Jersey since pre WWII, due to the Germans restricting farm usage during this time, it would have had an influence on the farm. Due to having easy access and a relationship with the owner of the farm and the farm being within the family, I believe it would be easy to gain information about what happened during that time, and acquire photos and maybe some photos during that time.

The second – My grandfather was born in Punjab, India, and was 8 years old during this time of WWII, India was affected during WWII. He is fascinated in genealogy which is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages. He has worked with my other grandfather to help retrace the other half of my family. He has retraced his side of the family back generations with immaculate detail. With his passion for genealogy and experience of being a young child during World War 2 I feel that this would be able to bring me much more detail to the story and how it affected him, but also it would bring a personal aspect into it with it being my grandfather but him recollecting his memories from that time.

Another idea and personal aspect to this is on the other side of my family who also had involvement with the world war. My granddad on my dads side was involved in world war 2 and put my grandfather up for adoption with the thought that he wasn’t making it back home after, and the family who then adopted my granddad were an Armenian family, which the father was a survivor from world war 1. My grandmothers father (My great grandfather) was a firefighter during the Blitz, which was Nazi Germany’s sustained aerial bombing campaign against Britain in WWII.

I have to hone in on one section, which I think due to accessibility and being personal will be my granddad who was born in Punjab.