| Adam and the gang,
Thank you for the welcome to WW2talk and for setting up this sub-forum.
It is hoped that this forum will promote the use of this resource, sort out problems (search engines can be difficult!) and encourage users to suggest additions or changes that may enhance this tool. There has already been some discussion and explanation of problems and some subsequent modifications to the system on the thread started by my pal Tom, from Tipperary, who was very probably the very first user of my search engines.
This is a search engine and not a database. My estimate is that it covers around 98% of UK WW2 casualties (war dead and civilian dead commemorations) and a little more for other nationalities. It may not always be correct (search engine indexing can become out of date if the original data is updated) so in all cases the CWGC record which it links to should be regarded as the true record.
Changes planned to date include the addition of forename/initials searching and some improvement to the Unit Text field. Hopefully these will not take long. The help page could also do with more detailed explanations (but who reads those?).
I hope visitors will please come forward and post if they have any problems or suggestions.
I'm very happy to be able to contribute to this important subject.
Cheers,
Geoff |