Hi All Beware, I found a mistake in the second entry I looked at. WILLING GA (George Arthur) has a birth date of 26 Dec 1896, although it should be 26 Dec 1895. I know 1896 is incorrect, as I happen to have his birth certificate, and his birth was registered in 1896, March quarter. I know soldiers often lied about their age, but in this case, he is said to be a year YOUNGER than he actually was, rather than older. It looks like a simple typo when the data was indexed. I only found 6 men called Willing and 1 called Willings, but I am not certain how many members of my ONS remained in the army after WW1. The accompanying letter says: Approximately 1700 entries have been deleted from the data as errors made when the index was created suggested an actual date of birth of after 1901. Perhaps some missing names can be accounted for if mistakes were made in deleting those entries. June Willing Guild of One-Name Studies member no 2117 Willing/Willings One-Name Study http://one-name.org/name_profile/Willing/ Willing/Willings DNA Project http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Willing/ Dominicus One-Name Study http://one-name.org/name_profile/dominicus-2/ On 4 Dec 2014, at 10:39, Adrian Abbott via wrote: > Apart from Merryl's difficulty in searching, I wonder what these > records are supposed to be. There are eight sets of Excel data with no > readily discernible grouping. For instance. looking in vain for my > grandfather Abbott, doing a Sort by Name should give Abbotts at the > start of whichever set they are in. But one start with the letter B, > for instance and ends at J.. He isn't there, although he was in the > Territorials after the war, and maybe Territorials didn't count. But > neither are several people I searched who were Regulars and should > have fitted the criteria. Should we assume the missing "burnt" records > are the reason for non-appearance? > > This is the grouping in the sets: > > Sheet 1 is Aacking to Woolven > Sheet 2 is Aalibon to Zusmanovitz > Sheet 3 is Boyd to Jones > Sheet 4 is Hingston to Pritchard > Sheet 5 is Aaron to Zollo > Sheet 6 is Bentley to Middleton > Sheet 7 is Aaronson to Zucker > Sheet 8 is Aaron to Zyborski > > Why this peculiar selection by name? > > Adrian > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Merryl Wells via > <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: >> I've spent about half an hour trying to work out how you can >> 'search' for a >> particular person - think you have to know their (approximate?) >> date of >> birth? It does not give full names, just initials, so rather a >> guessing >> game if you are looking for a common surname. >> >> From >> Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds. >> E-Mail: merryl.wells@one-name.org >> GOONS Mem. No. 1757 Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock, Moist/Moyst. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Ann McDonald via" <goons@rootsweb.com> >> To: <goons@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 11:16 PM >> Subject: [G] Index of Records held by the Ministry of Defence >> >> >>> The Ministry of Defence (UK) has released indices of records held >>> for >>> personnel born before 1901. These give (post WWI) service numbers, >>> name, initials, date of birth and sometimes the unit. The records >>> can >>> be accessed from: >>> >>> https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/foi-responses-released-by-mod-week-commencing-1-december-2014 >>> >>> An explanation of the release is given in the eight item down >>> which is >>> then followed by eight attachments giving the data. >>> >>> Records for men and women who served during the Great War and then >>> remained in the army after war should be included. >>> >>> Ann McDonald >>> Corner ONS >>> _____________________________________________ >>> >>> RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc >>> http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes >>> in the subject and the body of the message >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com >> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and >> the body of the message > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message