by MarkCDodd » Sun Nov 13, 2011 11:39 pm
With common names you must choose potential candidates and read the actual images.
The index can only work with the information provided by the transcribers and since this is the ONLY index available, you have to live with it.
With John William Wilson born 1881 Northumberland....have a look at the birth index and there are LOTS of them so naturally there will be lots in the military index.
If you can narrow the birth down to a particular parish then that helps when scanning the results.
I have used the FMP index to find dozens of soldiers over the last 12 months and it the best available, because it is the only one available.
Black Holes happen when God divides by zero.