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Re: CWGC postcode search inaccuracies
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 25 June 23 18:25 BST (UK) »
  Except that it doesn't!

Totally agree -- as much use as a chocolate fire guard as my grandfather used to say.

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Re: CWGC postcode search inaccuracies
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 25 June 23 18:28 BST (UK) »
Just checked my postcode. Two soldiers from a street half a mile from me died in WW1.
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Re: CWGC postcode search inaccuracies
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 25 June 23 18:46 BST (UK) »
It is showing those who died from your present area.

  Except that it doesn't!

Quite.

A large number of Hexham men died in the World Wars.

I have tried several Hexham postcodes, and they all give me the same man, Adam Telfer, said to be from Alexandra Crescent, Hexham. However it's clear from the inscription that that was his parents address, in Blyth, some 30 miles away.
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Re: CWGC postcode search inaccuracies
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 25 June 23 18:51 BST (UK) »
I was just trying to answer BumbleB’s query.

It obviously works  for some people. The house is still there for the person I found . I am not sure how useful it is, other than those who are researching local history etc.

I tried it with my daughters postcode with similar results - plus a street view of the house.
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Re: CWGC postcode search inaccuracies
« Reply #13 on: Sunday 25 June 23 19:01 BST (UK) »
I think the problem with the incorrect result I got is that Alexandra Crescent in Blyth no longer appears to exist.

So it is sending me to the next nearest Alexandra Crescent, even though it's the wrong one.
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Re: CWGC postcode search inaccuracies
« Reply #14 on: Sunday 25 June 23 19:31 BST (UK) »
My first search was for a still-existing address (Victorian terraced housing) where an ancestor killed in 1918 lived. It was interesting to find that he was one of five from that smallish street who died, and gives an insight into the impact of the war on the communities where our ancestors lived. However, I think that there are likely to be so many records that are either missing or simply wrong that it is of very limited usefulness.

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Re: CWGC postcode search inaccuracies
« Reply #15 on: Sunday 25 June 23 19:53 BST (UK) »

Totally agree -- as much use as a chocolate fire guard as my grandfather used to say.
Chocolate fireguard was an expression my grandmother used to use. She was from York well known for chocolate manufacture
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Re: CWGC postcode search inaccuracies
« Reply #16 on: Sunday 25 June 23 21:34 BST (UK) »
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Transcriptions and NBI are merely finding aids.  They are NOT a substitute for original record entries.
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Re: CWGC postcode search inaccuracies
« Reply #17 on: Sunday 25 June 23 21:49 BST (UK) »
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