Scottish GENES Reader's Story: ‘One is one and all alone’ – so the nursery rhyme goes

Reader Catherine Platt has asked me to share the following story, in case it may provide some encouragement to others in a similar situation... ‘One is one and all alone’ – so the nursery rhyme goes – A Family History journey spanning 20 years! At the time I retired in 2004, I knew only the story my mother Barbara Tough maintained, that my father (a sailor) had died during the war, her parents had…