cliff brown Posted 21 November , 2002 Share Posted 21 November , 2002 I've been on this site quite a few times and my hit rate has been about 50%. I tend to search by surname only, which gives a lot of download options and work my way through them (usually starting with the year I'm looking for). I've had some success typing in a soldier's number, but again only about 50%. I've searched for some officers I know were awarded an MC or DSO and not got anything, but found others. A good resource, but not working properly yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest John Orfei Posted 21 November , 2002 Share Posted 21 November , 2002 I have been using the LG for the last two hours today. It's up and running fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughton Posted 24 November , 2002 Share Posted 24 November , 2002 After a few attempts I was able to find my grandfathers record of his MC on the LG werbsite, but I caution you that I had to search under many variations of the first and last name and only found it when I went with last name and initiatls, not the full first name. Now the real interesting part is that the record on the Gazette does not match the records here in Canada, they relate to another medal. Now I am really confused as I have an LG record from the war and an LG record in the archives that do not match. I have sent a note to the LG asking for them to check the records and IF I ever hear anything I will be most surprised! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliff brown Posted 25 November , 2002 Share Posted 25 November , 2002 It's possible there are two LG dates - the first for announcing the award and a second for the citation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AOK4 Posted 25 November , 2002 Share Posted 25 November , 2002 The site seems completely down for the moment. Too many hits perhaps? Why does everyone else want to visit a site that I want to see? Jan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttd0 Posted 25 November , 2002 Share Posted 25 November , 2002 A mate of mine is a programming/software engineer on the 1901 online census. I asked to him to try and persuade his superiors to do the same thing with the LG website (apart from the paying bit!) Mind you I wouldn't mind paying a small fee if it works properly. Tim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ben Jones Posted 3 December , 2002 Share Posted 3 December , 2002 I had real problems with this at first and almost gave up but now it seems to be working fine. There were problems with the reader I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughton Posted 24 April , 2003 Share Posted 24 April , 2003 And now some months later could we call upon one of the members who has used the LG web site with success to give us all a PRIMER on what to do and what NOT to do so that we can get the best out of this site? I still have not discovered why the LG has a totally different record of my grandfather's medal record (Military Cross, Vimy Ridge) from that was is recorded here in Canada. I sent in a request last fall (2002) and I have never received a response. I guess they are too busy?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conor Dodd Posted 24 April , 2003 Share Posted 24 April , 2003 I managed to get the thing working just the other day all I had to do was download Adobe Reader 5.1 Conor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CROONAERT Posted 24 April , 2003 Share Posted 24 April , 2003 Got to admit, I don't know what I'm doing right, but I've never had a problem with the site. It's sometimes a little slow, but I can live with that. Dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Hartley Posted 24 April , 2003 Share Posted 24 April , 2003 Not had a problem since Jock Bruce told me to put a period in after the guy's initial. Although I never seem to be able to find anything if I tick the medal box. Just putting the name in seems OK - - just don't try to find a J Smith. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jock Bruce Posted 24 April , 2003 Share Posted 24 April , 2003 A little tweak I came up with this weekend. Was looking for an MC citation. I could find the gazette of the actual award but the citation was published later and try as I might I couldn't find the guy by name (it wasn't a New Year or Birthday list). Brainwave - tried the name above in the original notification, found the citation for that one and bingo! my man was the next citation. Looking at the page it was obvious that the quality of the original wasn't up to much and their text recognition program had read 'MacDonald' as something like 'MaoDc-ald'. Jock Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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