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Not for the first time - this is on FindMyPast. First name(s) T Last name Tubey Attestation year 1885 <<Not sure if this really is the Attestation date?>> Attestation date ? Oct 1885 Attestation corps - Discharge date - Discharge corps - Document type Attestation <<No, it's a Discharge Document>> Ar...

meekhcs wrote: ↑06 Jul 2020, 18:14... and not being tecchy minded thought I may have done something wrong!!

That is precisely why unnecessary checks like this are a seriously bad idea.

... and if it's a Scottish certificate, it gives the names of both parents! It's an interesting question which certificate you should go for, if you're on a budget, and a marriage certificate will certainly give you a lot of "bangs per buck", especially if set alongside census records. But...

I nearly said I had no problem until I double checked your words, Sally. I'm OK (using Firefox) until I try to view a Grave Registration Report . At that point I get a warning window: Firefox detected an issue and did not continue to archive.cloud.cwgc.org. The web site is either misconfigured or yo...

Conversely, I have seen a case where someone was labelled a seamstress and the poster asked if this meant that she was a prostitute... Well, probably not, sometimes a seamstress really is a seamstress. (In fact, IIRC, there is character in one of Terry Pratchett's Diskworld books, who was a seamstre...

.. it was more about the differences in the way you navigate to the searches and filters. ... Ah! Even so, to be honest, there are very few collections where I have the luxury of a choice. Censuses I always start with Ancestry because the enquiry screens expose more detailed search criteria "h...

... Familysearch - very useful but I always seem to get hundreds of results, most of which seem to have very little to do with what I searched for! FS seems to be addicted to the idea that if they give you only (say) 25, then other ones that you need might be at position 625 (say), so they better g...

Dan's post told me something that I didn't know - or had forgotten - which was that the RAF operated the P47 Thunderbolt (an American aircraft). I looked up 5 Squadron in Wikipedia (if you're not interested in aircraft - don't bother reading further!) and at the outbreak of WW2, 5 were in India equi...

And come to that, don't forget FamilySearch. The best way in (usually) is via the Catalog for the place-name - see https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog . FS, Ancestry and FMP have agreements behind the scenes - the big 2 commercial companies often use FS films and as a quid pro quo, FS can of...

Thank you Jim for that glimpse.

I suspect that you're way ahead of most of us with your understanding of that form - whether a specialist WW2 / RAF forum would help with more details, I have no idea, but it might be worth a go - you might have tried already of course!