I believe from memory you can do a general search to see if a specific name turns up in anyones family tree. Is it possible to see if a 20th century Harold/Harry Raasch/Rasch is on any Canadian family trees?
If we can establish that then we may have a start point
If you can do a census seach of the whole Canadian database that may turn something up as well. I'm guessing there won't be many - if any
At this stage the best we can try to do is establish the existance or otherwise of a Harold A Raasch in Canada. If theres no-one of that name in the census records, and no-one in a family tree search then that would be a reasonably conclusive negative. If the RCAF records also recorded a blank, then we know that "our" Raasch is lying.
If a third Raasch does turn up in those searches, then there is more work to do in identification
Of course we have to hope that the family name stayed constant. In Germany it appears to have been variable: Rasche/Rasch/Raschig/Raschen have all been recorded as variants
Last edited by Milo Minderbinder; 29th Jun 2012 at 23:50.