by Mike Jones » Tue Nov 25, 2008 1:41 am
Hi Jan,
That is music to my ears and would be a great help. I have so many projects on at the moment. Ancestry has a lot of critics, I am not one of them. They have made a lot of information available, that was not within reach of most of us. The indexing of the information is flawed though ! If you put in Harry Jones, Worcestershire Regiment, it comes up with Zero. Put in just Harry Jones and there are 387 sets of Service Records. There are 164 sets of Pension Records. There are too many to wade through. One thing to narrow it down a bit, most have a year of birth listed. When you open a set of documents, they do have Regiments, numbers and addresses. To get the date of drafting, you could also check on one of the other 110 other men that transferred with him. Pick an unusual surname, this will have less possibles. Any more help or advice please E/mail me.
Best Regards Mike
Edit. Jan, I forgot to say that there are no service records yet for men whose surname begins P through to Z. Ancestry have not done them yet. Also you must allow a year or two either side of Harry's known birthday.
Mike Jones