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Originally posted by vikki brace View Postwhy can't I find the ones I want?
I got some from TNA but they aren't coming up, have I missed something?
ChhristineResearching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...
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It seems they are being loaded in two stages. The one I really wanted to look at the back of is there but the back is blank, sadly. Now I have to try to remember what other ones I want to look at...KiteRunner
Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good... laugh" (Indigo Girls, "Watershed")
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There was a report in the Guardian about it - but I didn't read the detail before coming into work, so I'm not sure if it mentioned the two stages bit.
Even in a two-stage upload, I'd have thought I'd have found mine: Billington and Christmas being early in the alphabet.
ChristineResearching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...
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Oh, I bet this one is my relly:
Frederick C Bristow 65442 deserted 1.11.16
Still a deserter
Disch.
Seems to have got his medals, though. There's a bit I can't quite read just now and I have to go and get my daughter from school.KiteRunner
Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good... laugh" (Indigo Girls, "Watershed")
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found the article in the Telegraph
Website hosts Britain's First World War records - Telegraph
it does say in 2 stages :(Vikki -
Researching Titchmarsh and Tushingham
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If they have the backs, this must mean that Ancestry have re-filmed all the cards from scratch.
There was a huge hoo-ha after TNA put the cards online to start with, as it was argued that the backs were as potentially important as the fronts, and the plan was to scrap the cards. I think that TNA simply digitised the microfilms they had.
This must mean that the occasional card that wasn't microfilmed will turn up, while a few that were subsequently misplaced for whatever reason will not appear.
But this is such good news. Especially since those medal cards must have come as a huge disappointment to many people who paid £3.50 and then wondered what on earth they were looking at!Phoenix - with charred feathers
Researching Skillings from Norfolk, Sworn from Salisbury and Adams in Malborough, Devon.
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