Dotting the ‘t’s and crossing the ‘i’s
Searching the text for errors and inconsistencies takes far longer than I expected. Providing an accurate commentary throughout the book is a very important element. A daughter of one of the veterans (Arthur Clifford below), telephoned me recently, after I had left a telephone message. She not only corrected the spelling of one of his middle names but provided a lovely story about her father taking part in regimental concert parties.
The web site www.ancestry.co.uk has proved invaluable in the research and confirmation of dates of births, deaths and military records, it's amazing what is available, give it a try.
Unfortunately some of the old records do contain errors, my great uncle's surname has changed from Manly to Manley within the 1901 census.
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I was going to write a similar blog concerning this topic, you beat me to it. You did a nice job! Thanks so much,
It makes you realise how much effort goes into creating a book like this, especially with so much historic information to get correct. Not easy when most of the information is reliant on other sources to be right
Just goes to show how difficult it is to get the details right...