how can i find a d-day relative
I am unaware of direct relatives being involved on d-day, but would like to do a comprehensive search prior to visiting sites in Normandy this summer.
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You might start here: https://www.dday.org/learn/necrology-project/
It will be quite a project because you will have to take each name you find, see if the person is in Family Tree, then see if there is any relationship found between you and that person.
On the FamilySearch Activities page there is a section that shows up to 100 relatives who enlisted in World War II but it does say where they were on D-Day: https://www.familysearch.org/en/campaign/wwiiancestor but if you can access that activity, it would give you some names to start investigating. Some of these activities are not available to all users. This one may not be because I assume it is limited to just US enlistees.
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I can only talk about UK participants where I strongly suspect that there is no list generally accessible via events such as D-Day. The UK is only just opening up its Army records to users of The National Archives (of the UK) but substantial numbers simply aren't accessible through that mechanism. You'd have to make specific enquiries of our Ministry of Defence (MoD) on a (time consuming) person-by-person basis. And even then I suspect that you'd need to look at what their unit was doing on 6 June 1944, which is a whole other ball-game, as actions, battles and campaigns are normally recorded against the unit and not individual soldiers.
And you note I just said "Army" - I have no idea about visibility of Royal Navy or Royal Air Force but they are definitely MoD enquiries.
Sorry… It's hard work, I'm afraid.
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