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
Without going back to recheck I believe the original order within each sheet is by date of birth? Sheet 1 has JWS FARMERY born 1895-11-20 (as were the others named either side of him Sheet 6 has H FARMERY born 1892-12-03 (didn't take note of the DOB of those around him) What is useful (my this is an excel thing?) is that a search for a given sequence of letters found it anywhere so FARMER would also find FARMERY and FARMEREY, but not FARMEARY, though being at work there were too many FARMER entries to check them all for any that were more than just FARMER. Alan Moorhouse farmery@one-name.org ----Original message---- >From : goons@rootsweb.com Date : 04/12/2014 - 10:39 (GMTST) To : merryl.wells@one-name.org, merryl.wells@ntlworld.com, goons@rootsweb.com Subject : Re: [G] Index of Records held by the Ministry of Defence 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
Hi Alan Yes that is an Excel thing- you can search for any combination of letters within the text, but for these files sorting in alphabetical order probably makes it easier to see possible variants....and the names which have the intitials *before* the surname in that column (they will appear at the head of the column). Polly ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan R Moorhouse via" <goons@rootsweb.com> To: "Adrian Abbott" <adrabbott@gmail.com>; <goons@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 3:55 PM Subject: Re: [G] Index of Records held by the Ministry of Defence Without going back to recheck I believe the original order within each sheet is by date of birth? Sheet 1 has JWS FARMERY born 1895-11-20 (as were the others named either side of him Sheet 6 has H FARMERY born 1892-12-03 (didn't take note of the DOB of those around him) What is useful (my this is an excel thing?) is that a search for a given sequence of letters found it anywhere so FARMER would also find FARMERY and FARMEREY, but not FARMEARY, though being at work there were too many FARMER entries to check them all for any that were more than just FARMER. Alan Moorhouse farmery@one-name.org ----Original message---- >From : goons@rootsweb.com Date : 04/12/2014 - 10:39 (GMTST) To : merryl.wells@one-name.org, merryl.wells@ntlworld.com, goons@rootsweb.com Subject : Re: [G] Index of Records held by the Ministry of Defence 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 _____________________________________________ 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