Frederick began tracing his family history when he retired and we were in touch in the 1980s, but at that time we couldn't link him to a particular Dorling branch. His family had 4 generations in the Cold Stream Guards.
Many years later, about 2008, when Fred would have been very elderly if still living, I suddenly found information to link him to the West Stow branch. I found his name and address in the telephone directories and rang. His wife anwered and he was still living but couldn't come to the phone as he was too deaf to use the phone. I wrote to him with the information and later sent him his ancestor's military records from The National Archives. Fred then became one of the first members of the Dorling DNA Project helping to identify the YDNA signature of the West Stow branch.
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