The following excerpt is from a July 31, 2014 edition of ibtimes.co.uk:
One million heroes of the First World War have been “forgotten” by their descendants, a new geneological study has revealed.
Family history website Ancestry.co.uk has shown that three in 10 modern-day relatives of World War One veterans are unaware of their military heritage, and many lose the opportunity to find out about their link to the Great War when family members pass away.
For the study, researchers mapped population growth among veterans of the Great War to quantify how many Brits today have a WWI ancestor.
After comparing the 26.7 million figure with the number of people actually aware of such heroes in their family’s past, the results showed a significant “ancestral knowledge gap”, with 7.5 million Britons in the dark about their family connection to the Great War.
