I'd like to thank everyone for your replies and suggested websites regarding Scapa Flow and H.M.S. Tern during the war. It was a big help and I appreciate the wonderful response I received. Now I have a much better understanding of the situation. Now if I may push my luck, I have one more question: does anyone know if I can get specific information about George Abbott's death. I have searched the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website which gives the basics such as name, rank, etc. but there is nothing there about how he died. I have googled his name in various combinations, but no luck with this. I'm going on hearsay that his plane was shot down so I would like to confirm. Is there any place in Orkney that might have more detailed records? Thank you, ELizabeth

Elizabeth, if this lad died in Orkney, his death registration should be found there regardless of where he was born. Fisherman or victims of sinking ships who die at sea have been recorded in the Death Registration books for Orkney if a body was found and identified. I've read registration entries for those who washed up and were UNidentified....reasoning was they were found to be legally dead in Orkney, therefore registered there in whatever parish they were found. Do you happen to know if his body was recovered from the wreckage ? Knowing this might make a difference in figuring out what county or parish in which his death would be recorded. Try logging onto www.ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk/ pay the fee with a credit card and view all the hits for George ABBOTT who died in Orkney, all parishes. If no hits are found, try alternate spellings like ABOTT or ABBOT. If you enter a birth year or age, S-P looks one year either side of the stated year for returning the hits which is extremely helpful. Death Regsitrations for Scotland are searchable up to 1954 which is 50 years ago. Getting a Death Registration photocopy from Kirkwall will cost you 13.50 Pounds Sterling....way too expensive for my pocketbook. A researcher can get this same Registration from Edinburgh for about 1 Pound Sterling. ScotlandsPeople this is definitely the quckest way to get George ABBOTT's Death Registration no matter where it was recorded. If you can wait until Monday, I'll check the LDS filmed Death Index for his year of death to see if he is recorded in Scotland at all. It would give his name, age at death, the parish of registration and entry number. Its easier to check for the alternate spellings and the given age would most assuredly help identify your man. Let me know if you'd like me to check the Index film, please verify the age and year of death for me. MegG in OK, USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Sun, 22 May 2005 08:53:11 -0700, original message : >I'd like to thank everyone for your replies and suggested websites regarding Scapa Flow and H.M.S. Tern during the war. It was a big help and I appreciate the wonderful response I received. Now I have a much better understanding of the situation. > >Now if I may push my luck, I have one more question: does anyone know if I can get specific information about George Abbott's death. I have searched the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website which gives the basics such as name, rank, etc. but there is nothing there about how he died. I have googled his name in various combinations, but no luck with this. > >I'm going on hearsay that his plane was shot down so I would like to confirm. > >Is there any place in Orkney that might have more detailed records? > >Thank you, > >ELizabeth > > >==== ORKNEY Mailing List ==== >>>>>TIP: To unsubscribe, send an e-mail message to: [email protected] In the body include only one word: unsubscribe >Use Orkney-D if you're receiving digests.<<<< > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >