Hi, Sorry, the information for the Merchant Service exhausts my knowledge!!! However, the Public Records Office must have an enquiry service, maybe they could tell you what ADM stands for? Have you come across www.justgen.com? That has a large number of links to other things. Sorry I can't be more helpful. Ailsa Dorcatomc@aol.com wrote: > > Ailsa, > I followed your directions for finding service records and it worked > beautifully for Merchant Seamen. Thank you. However, I need to find records > of men in the Royal Navy and have tried several choices for the author's name > at familysearch to bring up the records "ADM 196". Since you handled the > Merchant Seamen search so beautifully, do you have any idea how I can find > the records for the British Navy in family search? I am not using the proper > author's name and cannot come up with the correct one. > Thank you for any ideas you may have. > Dorothy > > ==== SCT-ARGYLL Mailing List ==== > ***************************************************************** > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/Scotland/Argyll is the > GenConnect board for Argyll