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From: "Lorine McGinnis Schulze" <>
Subject: RE: [ONT] Fw: WW1 Documentation
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:39:11 -0500
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That's a shame that happened to you Heather. I suppose no
system is foolproof, mistakes happen.

All I can tell you is that from my own personal
experiences, having sent for, and received, over 100
attestation files from WW1, NAC has come through for me
every time.

I have sent letters with names, place of birth, year of
birth (that is the most important piece of info), spouse's
name if known, parents' names if known, residence at the
time (if known).

I think for the small cost involved (20 cents/page if it
hasn't been raised) it is worth the odd mistake. :-)

Mind you if you sent them a second letter, explaining what
happened in your case, along with a copy of your FIRST
letter where events are clearly listed, it wouldn't
surprise me if NAC did a second lookup for you for free

Also, I'm sure you did this, but for others here is a tip -


always put your info neatly typed, separated by lots of
white space (easier on the eyes) and as brief as possible
in any letter to NAC requesting lookups. Make it as easy
and fast as possible on the person doing the lookup to use
your info to help find what you want

Lorine

On 19 Jan 2004 at 11:09, Heather Bertram wrote:

> Unfortunately, this is not quite true Lorine.
>
> I sent a letter to the Archives asking for my grandfather's
> war records, I gave his name, birthdate, place of birth,
> date of death, parents' name and wife's name, where he was
> posted.
>
> They sent me records of someone with the same name, but none
> of the other information matches. The person was 25 years
> older, from a different province, different wife.
>
> I just received these records in today's mail.
>
>
>
> Heather Bertram
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lorine McGinnis Schulze [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 5:05 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [ONT] Fw: WW1 Documentation
>
>
>
>
> On 18 Jan 2004 at 15:20, jplappin wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > I have been wanting to send for information on my family
> > who were in the first world war. When I enter the
> > surname that I am searching I come up with a lot of people
> > with the same surname. I know, we had Robert, William,
> > John, Samuel as given names and of course there are about
> > 5 Williams, etc etc on the list. Is there a way to sort
> > this out, or should I just take my chances and order all
> > of them? Any instruction or advice would be gratefully
> > appreciated.
>
> There's no need to order them all. Just write a letter to
> the NAC, and tell them the names, dates of birth, places of
> birth, parents/spouses' names etc - the more you know, the
> better
>
> You don't need the Regimental Numbers to order these WW1
> files.
>
> NAC will take a look and try to give you the correct Robert
> or William or John based on the info you provide them.
>
> For details see http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmil/ Click on
> WW1 then FIND YOUR WW1 ANCESTOR
>
> Good luck
> Lorine
> Lorine McGinnis Schulze
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Lorine McGinnis Schulze
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