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