Interesting piece on Westall's War (a Tyne and Wear Archives/Gateshead Council project) in today's Journal newspaper, featuring an interview with site user Maureen Rumfitt.
Mother-of-four Maureen Rumfitt had never used the internet before when she logged on for the first time.
"I'm just so grateful to the site for giving me answers to questions I had about my family."
But within seconds of entering her father's name into a search engine, she had found the clues to help solve a family mystery that had haunted her for nearly 50 years.
After entering her father's name into a search engine, Maureen was directed to www.westallswar.org.uk, a site dedicated to the Wilkinson's disaster, the North's worst bombing raid on May 3, 1941, when an air raid shelter in the basement of the lemonade factory in North Shields was destroyed by a direct hit from a single German bomb killing 105 people.