Hello Ray, Thank you for your advice. I have just tried again (without supplying any dates) and yes, there is now a long list of James Browns for me to sort through ! With thanks, Marje PS I would like to thank everyone who has given advice freely from their knowledge and taken an interest in my search for James Brown > Hello again Marje. > > Mmmm??? I am not too sure what you mean about no 'result'. > That is, I don't understand if you meant that you did NOT obtain that 256 > or > whatever hits when you entered the details into the TNA search engine. > OR: if you meant that none of those 250 or so were yours. > > If the latter, then I can't really help any further. And the excellent > advice which you have just received from Deb would be the best avenue to > pursue. > > BUT if you mean that you couldn't get any of those results, I will just > walk > you through it again. > First: click on the link which I provided originally below. That takes you > to the TNA search engine. > Then in the first line of data asked for, just enter james brown > (no inverted commas, no need for capitals, no spaces before or after). > Then in the bottom line enter WO being the letter w and the letter o for > War > Office. > Then click on SEARCH, and you should have the same results as I get. > I just tried it again, using the link which I had sent to you below, and > it > worked. > So if this is not working for you, I am afraid that I am unable to help in > any way, as I am technologically hopeless. > > Hoping that this might get it for you this time. > Regardless, the advice which Deb has sent you is outstandingly good. > > regards: ray > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marjedawn_1" <[email protected]> > >> Hello Ray, >> >> Thank you for your reply and the website of the TNA. >> >> However I was not able to find a result when I searched for James Brown - >> any suggestions please? >> >> regards >> Marje > > > ... if you go to this web-site -- being the search facility for TNA ... > in > England, and enter james brown > in the 'word or phrase' input box, and then enter WO into the 'department > or series code' box; you should obtain over 250 hits for James BROWN in > the > british military. (... try the same for James Browne ... too.) > ... http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/search.asp > ... > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message