CONFUSED! How can I confirm the search result is my relative?

Glad to see you're on the right track now. Sorry for leading you down the garden path with his DOB. For the Irish stuff you were hoping to delve into it's worth trying findmypast.ie. I've hit a brick wall with my search over there so for a bit of help I'm hoping to put out an appeal via a site called Ireland Reaching Out. Seems to be fairly new and they appear to be creating a network of ancestry minded people throughout Ireland to lend help with family tree problems. Good luck and have fun reading through that WW1 record when you get it.

 

Honestly Rosey? That would be absolutely amazing (how do I send you a private msg with my email address??) I think I will not be subscribing to genes reunited after this trial period (uk records/census is fine - but cant find much else, & forces war records pffft (if they were a battalion - there'd be no-one in it!! ) Gonna start saving my pennies & subscribe to ancestry.com in a few months by looks of it.
Thank you so very much for all the help - it is extremely appreciated xxx

 

It's fine I only opened the gate (so to speak) & knew it was the wrong direction, there are a lot of Kane's in the north east (probably all related down the line somewhere, most are ulster irish families I have found out today) I appreciate all the help you have all given me. I will keep that Ireland reaching out in mind on my searches. Ive found a few local forums with some good information, might be worth looking at area your ancestors are from & searching for local history groups, they may help you get over your wall xxx

 

Ancestry has a free 14 day trial with full access. Sign up, create your tree, add Peter to it, go to Search - Military - WW1 Service records - put in his name and year of birth - should be one of the top results - click view records - click on the small thumbnail of a page - will open in a viewer - click orange "save button at top - saves to your computer - hit right arrow to go to next page repeat "save" action.

Wayne

 

I tried twice last night to join but it wont accept my card - aint got a clue why though - I was ready to launch laptop through the window lol - will try again in few days time though, I wont be defeated though - just had step away from laptop for a bit of a breather haha. Thanks

 

Dawn,

See your messages.

Roxy

 

Hi,

If you are near a "central" library you ought to be able to access Ancestry for free - most large libraries have that facility. You get same access as paid subscription. I have done all of my WW1 research by that means.

If you have not researched Tyneside Irish (Brigade) they are the 4 "service" battalions of Northumberland Fusiliers (24th thru to 27th) raised 1914/15. Together with rest of 34th Division (including Tyneside Scottish Brigade) they suffered heavy casualties on 1st July 1916 on The Somme. I had great uncles who were killed whilst serving in 4th Tyneside Irish and 1st Tyneside Scottish.

You may not be aware of Great War Forum? It is a forum "similar" to WW2 Talk but for WW1 matters.

Regards

Steve Y

 

Thank you so much :biggrin: Ive had a proper chuckle at his antics (managed to decipher most of them) cant wait to show my mam too.

 

Hi Steve, I haven't got that far yet but cant wait to find out more though, will have a look at your recommendations - Many Thanks Dawn.

 

Are the details below those of the Gt.Granddad you seek?

Pte. P. Kane,
Service No 26/1013,
26th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers (3rd Tyneside Irish), "C Company",
[Also on "D Company", 30th Battalion Roll],
Address: 12 Stanley Street, Jarrow.

(The above details are from John Sheen's excellent book "Tyneside Irish", Pen & Sword, (2nd Ed. 2010)).

The 30th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers was the reserve battalion for the Tyneside Irish Brigade.

The 26th Bn. N.F. was the 3rd Tyneside Irish (24th Bn was 1st Tyneside Irish).

Hope this helps.

 

Hi Dawn
Looks like you have managed to obtain Peter Kanes records for yourself. Well done.
It is very exciting when you find this sort of information regarding an ancestor.

Cheers
Rosey

 

It wouldn't have been possible without all the wonderful help I have received on this site :thankyousign: I should have enough information to do a proper "recce" now. No doubt I will need more help along the way & as I learn maybe I can return the favour, I will keep you regularily posted as to where my journey goes 9still new to this so I wont be far away LOL xx

 

Good day Dawn,

If you have correctly identified the correct details, perhaps you could share at least the basic details of your Gt. Ganddad's service with those who have attempted to assist you here please? It would be good if those who have tried to help you knew what the final outcome had been.

 

Of course :smile: I couldn't possibly not share. I have to collate everything together first, I've been pointed in the right direction - so fingers crossed I should been able to complete a few chapters from his life (should make for interesting reading - hopefully) all I have for the moment is his correct service number but it looks like he's been in a few regiments on first glance, and some entries that shows he was a repatriated POW as well as a bit of a naughty boy too haha - But I will DEFINATELY let you all know once I piece enough information together to give you an insight into his service life xx

 

Hi dbf, Thanks for the info, I will definitely be following some of them avenues - I have tried one of the avenues you suggested unfortunately
http://www.icrc.org/web/forms/webforms.nsf/F_Archive?OpenForm&ParentUNID=FC2FA71E2991A657C12572E200322DD7 is not possible till 2014 (at the earliest) their site states "Due to the preservation treatments and the digitization of WWI archives,research activities have to be interrupted. No new research requests shall be accepted as from August 1st 2011"

(Just thought I would let you know)
Hopefully other avenues may produce his POW records, as I now have his service no. DOB etc.) otherwise I will be counting down the days
many thanks
Dawn

 

Yeah - it is now didn't realise he was actually in ww1. When I posted my original post I didn't know much more than his name - now I know a bit more (thanks to the people on this forum) he was in definitely in the West Riding Regiment (not sure which division yet though) so next step is going to be applying for his service record, been trying to find info on Siberian POW camps (as I believe that's where he was) but cant find much at all. :frown:

 

Dawn,

If you are looking for 'stuff' on WW1, you could do worse than 'The Long, Long Trail':

http://www.1914-1918.net/

or The Great War Forum:

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?act=idx

A fair few members here are on both forums and you will undoubtedly get some good info.

Roxy

 

Dawn, you do not need to apply for his WW1 service records, they are in the public domain, although most sites will charge you a membership fee to access them. His full WW1 service record is on Ancestry, 27 pages if I am remembering correctly. Once you get to them you can download them to your computer. Use their 14 day free trial if you like, then it costs you nothing if you cancel before the 15th day.

As he was WW1 POW try the Great War Forum (as Roxy suggested) (http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php) as they are the place to ask for WW1 stuff.

Wayne