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Offline BettyofKent

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Re: WW1 Service Records Missing from Ancestry.co.uk?
« Reply #9 on: Monday 19 April 10 15:25 BST (UK) »
Thank you corisande, that's useful to know.

Betty
KENT:
Stutely - Wittersham & Stone
Padgham - Wittersham
Wanstall - Northbourne
Taylor - Ringwould & Ash
Skinner - Deal
Bushell - Walmer
Spain - Walmer
Also
Schloss - Poland, Nottingham, Massachusetts & New Zealand.
Cohen - Birmingham

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Re: WW1 Service Records Missing from Ancestry.co.uk?
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 24 April 10 12:30 BST (UK) »
Hi Marc

His service documents include his discharge documents. They were all kept together. The NA information of 40% survival is wrong. In the official report of what was destroyed - available for download from the NA for £3.50 - they quote 1.25 million saved out of 6.5 million, which is less than 20%. A few extra % come from other files (the so-called 'pension' files on Ancestry) but nowhere near another 20%. So you should be grateful for what you have.

And there is always PIN 26 if you are feeling really lucky.

Ken

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Bezant (London/Suffolk), West (London/Essex), Walker (Yorkshire), Phillips (West Country - believed Bristol area), Tibbetts (Warwickshire), Armstrong (Co Fermanagh), Harvison (Co Wexford), Neeb (Germany), Becker (Germany), Jakobsson (Finland). Kanneworff (Germany and Denmark)