adam1981 Posted 7 November , 2018 Share Posted 7 November , 2018 Hello I am trying to find a medal index card on Ancestry but having no luck. I have found it on the Nation Archives website but not ordered as have an Ancestry subscription. Any help would be great please, the details from the National Archives are: Cadley, Henry C Royal Garrison Artillery 334818 Dorset Yeomanry 1752 Staffordshire Yeomanry 301055 Life Guards 4243 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tullybrone Posted 7 November , 2018 Share Posted 7 November , 2018 Hi, Is this the one? Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam1981 Posted 7 November , 2018 Author Share Posted 7 November , 2018 feel silly but that just wasn't coming up in my searches! how did you find it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tullybrone Posted 7 November , 2018 Share Posted 7 November , 2018 No problem - Ancestry can be difficult. I just put in the bare minimum of his name - as per your post - and he came out top of the list. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted 8 November , 2018 Share Posted 8 November , 2018 Problem I find is if you try to put too much in, you get a miss. in your case you have two numbers, his mic has 4. For some reason ancestry search seems to ignore unless all numbers in and in the same order. I've tried a single number many times, but because he had two I can't find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam1981 Posted 12 November , 2018 Author Share Posted 12 November , 2018 Hello again, I think my Ancestry has gone haywire. I am looking for 41685 C. Wood Northumberland Fusiliers, im just getting nothing even when searching just for number. May have to give them call. Can someone please check if this index card is there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam1981 Posted 12 November , 2018 Author Share Posted 12 November , 2018 is anyone else experiencing search problems over the last week? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmsk212 Posted 12 November , 2018 Share Posted 12 November , 2018 This mic may well be one that Ancestry failed to copy. If you go to the National Archives website it does show that Clement Wood had 2 medal index cards. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmsk212 Posted 12 November , 2018 Share Posted 12 November , 2018 Ancestry does have the War & Victory Medal roll with him on but not the medal index card Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam1981 Posted 13 November , 2018 Author Share Posted 13 November , 2018 Thanks, thought I was going mad. I haven't got the correct subscription to get the medal roll, but my friend has so I can get a copy. I have also found the London Gazette entry for the other mic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 13 November , 2018 Share Posted 13 November , 2018 18 hours ago, adam1981 said: is anyone else experiencing search problems over the last week? Great War related websites tend to experience access problems around 11 November. Give it a week and try again. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam1981 Posted 13 November , 2018 Author Share Posted 13 November , 2018 Very good point! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nhclark Posted 14 November , 2018 Share Posted 14 November , 2018 On 13/11/2018 at 20:39, adam1981 said: Thanks, thought I was going mad. I haven't got the correct subscription to get the medal roll, but my friend has so I can get a copy. I have also found the London Gazette entry for the other mic I downloaded the two cards from TNA. (Doesn't cost me anything!) One card refers to the BWM and VM, the other to the award of the Military Medal. There are quite a number of medal cards missing from the ancestry dataset. The most obvious are those where the front of the medal card has a completely different background colour from what purports to be the back of the same card, when in reality there are two cards but they were not separated in the scanning process. The medal roll tells you that he was Clement Wood of the 2nd Northumberland Fusiliers. In the Remarks column :A.R. Cl. Z." Noel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithmroberts Posted 14 November , 2018 Share Posted 14 November , 2018 If I don't find what I am after on Ancestry or FMP I always check back with the NA site. There are definitely records there don't appear on Ancestry, and of course, better indexing as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nhclark Posted 15 November , 2018 Share Posted 15 November , 2018 17 hours ago, keithmroberts said: If I don't find what I am after on Ancestry or FMP I always check back with the NA site. There are definitely records there don't appear on Ancestry, and of course, better indexing as well. But reproduced only in black and white, and only the front of each card copied. The former means, in many cases, that quite a bit of detail is missed, and the latter, in some cases, means vital information (such as an address) cannot be seen. It was the address of her brother on the back of a card than enabled me to positively identify a nurse who served in France for over four years. Without ancestry I could not have made that connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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