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Old 12-01-2008, 12:55 AM   #8 (permalink)
geoff501
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Originally Posted by spidge View Post
The 400 seems a small amount to me so someone might like to do another check.
I ran this search a while back, I believe it is correct. If you entered republic of ireland into the Including field, leaving other fields blank, it would find those records which have 'Republic of Ireland' in the CWGC Additional Information field. I think only around 75% of records have some information in this field, given by the next of kin. It is possible there are other records with Irish place names that do not have this. You could try searching on Irish counties or towns. It is also likely that this detail was simply not given by the next of kin in many cases. I noticed that quite a few of the results were naval.

geoff

ps I should mention that if you ever get 1000 hits, the engine has stopped searching, as it will only report a maximum of 1000. In this case you need to add additional search terms to get all the matches. The easiest way is to enter a date range.
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Last edited by geoff501; 12-01-2008 at 01:00 AM. Reason: missed a point!
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