Engelandvaarders are those people who were able to leave The Netherlands and arrive in England.
Volunteers have read the formal interviews taken after their arrival in England and put the routes they took on maps.
I should be able to find my father there.
Problem is that the entrance to the files is not very well keyworded.
Submitted a request at the National Archives.
Before the form was submitted they wrote that the waitingtime would be 2 weeks, after it was submitted: 9 months.
That was like a slap in the face.
Well, we'll see what happens.
They will first have a look if there is something to be found.
They will report this.
Then they'll inform me about the costs of someone getting the records.
We'll see.
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Son 2 arranged to get Dad's death certificate.
We filled in the request form for Dad's records.
As we couldn't send the needed money, because the MOD requested to send it through a payment system we don't have, and none answered my mails, it was carefully enclosed with the request.
We checked the address several times and sent it.
Then the wait started.
It was well before the pandemic hit us, undermined a lot of societal functions, and made us want everybody to be well and happy again.
But we now have Dad's death certificate.
But the records????
We don't have them.
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