{"id":15486,"date":"2014-02-03T23:45:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T04:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=15486"},"modified":"2022-11-11T08:38:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T13:38:32","slug":"family-members-lived-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/family-members-lived-world-war-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Which family members lived during World War II?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

According to my genealogy software, there are 66 people in my current family tree who were alive when Canada declared war on Germany on September 9, 1939, including all four of my grandparents.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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Richard Charles Himphen’s only will was a note about his wife at the back of his log book. He died in Italy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

By the time the last battle in continental Europe ended on May 20, 1945, the number of ancestors alive was up to 70, even though 45,400 Canadians died in the war, including my mother\u2019s father and my father’s uncle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our family wasn’t alone. According to demographer David Foot, 2.2 million people were born in Canada during the war, just ahead of the baby boom that began two years later. My mother and father were among the people born during the war time era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I never realized how clear demographic trends become while doing genealogy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to my genealogy software, there are 66 people in my current family tree who were alive when Canada declared war on Germany on September 9, 1939, including all four of my grandparents. By the time the last battle in continental Europe ended on May 20, 1945, the number of ancestors alive was up to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"","tag":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[103,17],"tags":[107,106,105],"class_list":["post-15486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-history-writing","category-writing","tag-demographis","tag-genealogy-2","tag-wwii","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-41M","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15505,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/military_service_records\/","url_meta":{"origin":15486,"position":0},"title":"Fact du Jour: Military Service Records","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"February 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"You can get more detail about your ancestors if you consult the service records in person. 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