tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8283186221240634035.post7990019161768972492..comments2024-03-14T06:11:00.320+00:00Comments on Army Ancestry Research: Searching WO 363 & WO 364 on findmypastPaul Nixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12354531380984476532noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8283186221240634035.post-5009158761286857002014-06-06T10:52:20.698+01:002014-06-06T10:52:20.698+01:00Ah - glad you told me about Som* Yeo*! I would abs...Ah - glad you told me about Som* Yeo*! I would absolutely have done that!Adrian Brucenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8283186221240634035.post-60740726382264672282014-06-05T10:18:47.212+01:002014-06-05T10:18:47.212+01:00Thanks for commenting, Adrian. Yes and No. For tha...Thanks for commenting, Adrian. Yes and No. For that deeper drilling down you need to go to either the individual data collection in the A-Z list or the "search all military" option, where you can still select on regiment and number. Searching by data collection gives you the regimental numbers in the results' screen. Searching across all the military databases gives you the same total results but you lose the regimental number when the results are displayed, in favour of the record set information.<br /><br />The "search all records" doesn't come close because you only have the option to search on name and date and location; not appropriate for someone who want to do some digging on regimental numbers.<br /><br />Incidentally, in my example above if I were looking for North Somerset Yeomanry and, being lazy, typed in Som* Yeo* instead of Nor* Som* Yeo* I'd get zero results. I'd need to type the full Nor* Som* Yeo* or * Som Yeo* which would give me results for both North Somerset Yeomanry & West Somerset YeomanryPaul Nixonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12354531380984476532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8283186221240634035.post-24242911778522493632014-06-05T09:59:47.435+01:002014-06-05T09:59:47.435+01:00I'd picked up that FMP had wild-carding on the...I'd picked up that FMP had wild-carding on the number - an infinite advance on whatever Ancestry - but not that such a complex wild carding on the regiment would work. So thanks for that.<br /><br />However, it is important to note that you don't get that useful output showing the service numbers in the summary *unless* you go and find the input form for the specific dataset "British Army Service Records 1914-1920" (accessed from the A-Z list, say). Using the ordinary search menu doesn't get you close enough, even from the "First World War in Military, armed forces & conflict" input screen<br />Adrian Brucenoreply@blogger.com