I’m a moderate user of Twitter so decided to give #AncestryHour a go. The hour in question is weekly at 7pm on a Tuesday, so at 7pm I tweeted an introduction and posed a question about my grandfather, the one who served in the Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War. I had no idea whether anyone would respond but was pleased when I received some ‘welcome’ replies. I was asked if I had any photos of my grandfather. I didn’t have any to hand so had to go and dig out the co

I've been setting up the website and social media accounts for 'Conflict of Interest' ready for launch. I will adopt this picture as the design for the project. Its elements are based on my own ideas but the whole was brought to fruition courtesy of my artistic designer Alex Leam. I found the background photo in an inherited family album and it interests me greatly. The quality of the photo is surprisingly good. I make a reasonable assumption that the man in uniform is Fred C