100th Anniversary. How do you plan to commemorate it?

[pat toms]

Aly Jones,Click on Titanic-Museum-Germany. Cick on Austeung picture. click on Titanic heritage Trust .click on links rt hand. side scroll down list of titanic societies click on Shannon Ulster Titanic Society,you will see picture of David Scott Beddard. Sir Andrew Duff Gordon .Howard Nelson. I know that you will have a hard time doing this even with these instructions there are about 2,500 sites on titanic on the web,and maybe more and subjects pertaning to Titanic.Aly thanks for you question and interest, Pat

[Aly Jones]

roger that. I'll try pat.

[pat toms]

Aly,Thanks for getting back to me it will be difficult and also the fact that going through the THT does not work,that is why the route is circuitos,and curious to,hope you get there before it is gone in the meantime i will try and contact THT.Pat
P.S. 100th anniversary have done a talk in a school by request,the kids loved it.

[Aly Jones]

P.S. 100th anniversary have done a talk in a school by request,the kids loved it.

That's great Pat. Was the story about your grandfather?

[Memory's Child]

My husband and I just returned from vacation, part of which was spent in Halifax for the purpose of attending events related to the Titanic. Here are some highlights and photos.

We went to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic and saw various articles from the ship. The most stirring were the personal possessions such as the gloves, and the pair of baby's shoes.

We had dinner one evening at The Five Fishermen Restaurant, which used to be Snow & Sons Funeral Home, where the bodies from the Titanc were taken.

We attended the Candlelight Walk from the watefront to downtown. We also attended Night of the Bells where actors, singers, and others read stories and gave accounts of events 100 years before. We watched as fireworks were set off to represent the flares lit from Titanic. It was a very chilly evening, but I couldn't help but think that it wasn't nearly as cold as it was for the people on that night in 1912.

We went on a bus tour that took us through Halifax, pointing out areas of interest in relation to the Titanic. The tour took us to both Mount Olivet and Fairview Lawn Cemetaries. At Mount Olivet, I got pictures of the rows of stones, with Margaret Rice on the close end. Someone arrived before the tour and placed a single rose on all the markers. Rice's stone had additional flowers. The tour ended in Fairview Lawn, where we attended the memorial service. We had been to Fairview Lawn in 2006 and I took a picture of the still cared for stone of the "Unidentified Child." I had heard a few years ago that he had been identified, and that they gave him back his name. I was moved to tears to be able to get a picture of the stone with the child's name now on it.

We also got to see the arrival of the Balmoral, the ship which took Titanic's route and stopped over the wreck site for a memorial. Some people on the Balmoral were carrying flags of the countries they had come from. For security reasons, no one was allowed on the dock to watch the ship come in, so we all had to watch through shop windows. While people on the ground were taking pictures of people on the Balmoral, we were amused to find that some of them were taking pictures of us as well.

It was a very moving few days, and one of my most meaningful vacations. From there we went on to visit Newfoundland for a few days as my husband wants to see all the Canadian provinces. While there I learned about the role Cape Race played in the evening of the sinking of the Titanic.

[Titanic_Malaysia]

Memory's Child, those are great photos of the locations you and your husband went, in relation to the Titanic... Halifax is indeed a beautiful city with a direct link to the Titanic disaster and it must have been very emotional + moving for both of you, having to visit all these places...

[joshua]

Memory's Child,
I enjoyed seeing those photos of how those that died were honored. It made me so sad when I saw the grave of the Unknown Child, Sydney Goodwin.

[pat toms]

Aly Jones well some of the story did you see refefrnce to it on the site i sent you. Pat

[VW1956]

Hello Memorys child. Thanks for the great story of your visit and those very nice pictures. Ken.

[pat toms]

Joshua,I presume you are one of the Goodwin family who are related to the Family Goodwin,who came out originally from England,on the Titanic? However the reason I ask is because when the American Titanic Society came over to Belfast in about 1998, they gave me a plaque.The name of the Society was the :Titanic Historical Society:I was presented with a book about the Goodwin family,on the plaque it has to the Ulster Titanic Society,of which I was the first President and founder Member,unfortunately I could not be there to meet them,because of circumstances which may be revealed at a later date.Pat.

[joshua]

Pat, I'm not related to the Goodwin family. I'm just saddened by the fact that someone so young went through that and was the only one found of the entire family, especially considering the fact I know some large families about the same in number as the Goodwins which makes it even sadder to me. However, I do believe there is a documentary in which they meet a member of the Goodwin family to get DNA for identification. You could look there and see if you can get some information on the family.

[pat toms]

Joshua, thanks for the quick reply and I obviously thought wrong that you were related to that particular family,I will read that book as well that the Americans gave to me via some one else,in fact the comittee,of the Ulster Titanic society of which i was the President and founder member. Pat

[ShamelessAngels]

I had heard a few years ago that he had been identified, and that they gave him back his name. I was moved to tears to be able to get a picture of the stone with the child's name now on it.

How lovely that they have finally given the poor child a name. <3

[Aly Jones]

DNA proved he was Sydney Goodwin' I wished they can place his name on his headstone. They had to do DNA test with living people today to actually find out who this little unknown boy was,without DNA, Sydney Goodwin would had been claimed by so many people. He was found by a group of men when looking for bodies, without any Identification and no survivors claimed his body, so they gave him the best title they could had given the small boy.

[pat toms]

Joshua,It seems that now there is a sidney Goodwin and a sydney goodwin,spelt differently.Posted by different people with different spellings,about a boy who was named as they did not know who ha was,etc.Your name Goodwin so it seems and also there is the goodwin family,who most of them it seems perished but some made it to America.It now looks as if there is a lot of confusion for me over the goodwins can someone try and get the message that I am sending.Pat