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Old 24th October 2018, 20:21
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Originally Posted by tugger View Post
As your number in 71 was R900850 and my Dad's in 1917 was plain 934682 you can imagine what yours could have been.
A basic mistake that some researchers make when looking for records of seamen via Dis. A numbers is that they search for the incorrect Dis. A.

Before I understood how the system worked, I approached a professional researcher to look for my father's record. He searched in the wrong place looking for numbers only and did not search the 'R's. So the moral of the story is make sure you trust your researcher as there could be two seamen with the same discharge number but one will have a prefix depending on what year he joined the service.
Thankfully I did not give up when my professional researcher told me that my dad's record did not exist because his number belonged to a chief engineer many years previous. What a waste of £50 back then.
My one and only time using a so called 'professional'.

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