Identifying individuals
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timoak1
As the spelling and reading / deciphering individuals names is sometimes difficult is it permissible to make a correction based on research from web sites such as CWGC and Lives of the First world war etc where the person can be positively identified
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HeatherC
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The answer to this is yes as long as you are sure you have the right identification.
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timoak1
Thanks, CWGC is good if the casualty dies as you have a date. Lives of the WW1 can give to many probables if the surname is common and you do not have an Id number
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cyngast
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in response to timoak1's comment.
At Lives of the First World War, you can narrow down the probables quite a bit in many instances by selecting categories from the choices on the left side of the page. For instance, I wanted to look up 2nd Lt. J. G. Cregan earlier today. First I put Cregan in the search box. When that list came up, I selected Cregan as Surname. Then I chose British Army, then Machine Gun Corps because he was in the 47th Machine Gun Coy. With each choice, you get a smaller number of probables. Eventually, I had a list of about 12 names or so, and one was Lt. James Grattan Cregan. This doesn't always help, especially for very common surnames, but I find it usually narrows several thousand down to less than 50.
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