Can some kind soul help ?

Discussion in 'Searching for Someone & Military Genealogy' started by jonheyworth, Mar 6, 2021.

  1. jonheyworth

    jonheyworth Senior Member

    I'm being particularly dyslexic over the last few weeks, it will pass and get less, but I'm being even more stupid than normal and a few things are looking like Chinese characters to me

    Simple things, I'm trying to trace two WAAF girls and my brain won't compute something as simple as a BMD reference

    ACW1 Mabel Jones 445052, died 10th February 1942, aged 23, buried Aberdare

    ACW1 Barbara Norraine Richards 2068762, died 30th September 1945, aged 25, buried Treverbyn


    Could some kind soul look tyemmup on the GRO index for me as I'm proving incapable

    Thanks Jon
     
  2. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

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  4. RAFCommands

    RAFCommands Senior Member

    JONES, MABEL 22
    GRO Reference: 1942 M Quarter in EDMONTON Volume 03A Page 1457


    Ross
     
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  5. RAFCommands

    RAFCommands Senior Member

    RICHARDS, FLORENCE BARBARA LORAINE 25
    GRO Reference: 1945 D Quarter in REDRUTH Volume 05C Page 184

    Took a bit of mental gymnastics - She served as RICHARDS, FLORENCE BARBARA LORRAINE and is recorded as such in AIR78/133

    Ross
     
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  6. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    Possible death cert for Barbara
    England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
    Name: Florence B L Richards
    Death Age: 25
    Birth Date: abt 1920
    Registration Date: Oct 1945
    [Nov 1945]
    [Dec 1945]
    Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec
    Registration District: Redruth
    Inferred County: Cornwall
    Volume: 5c
    Page: 184

    TD

    Snap!!
     
  7. jonheyworth

    jonheyworth Senior Member

    I love you all. My brains not been cooperating this week and I was justvstaringatba screen written in hyroglyphics.

    Many thanks

    Jon
     
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  8. Red Goblin

    Red Goblin Senior Member

    What, no robotic assistance as here advised by the BDA? - just scroll down to "Examples of reasonable adjustments" to where the 4th bullet point under its 1st sub-heading ("Reading") suggests "Supply screen-reading software or a Reading Pen". Having a machine read text out loud while you're viewing it should shatter dyslexic delusion just as a friend might do by reading over your shoulder - and, I might add, with infinitely more patience :). I found the technology abysmal for cramming books &c, but it should suffice for quickies like citations.

    I also recommend FreeBDM, in this context, with its exceptionally-well-designed internal search engine maybe right up Jon's particular street.

    Steve
     

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