[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by RainbowSix

I agree, there are ways to prevent the IP theft AND share the information with the rest of the people who lost family etc.

I am sure that there are many who are trying to trace their family history that would be very keen on this information. You could even license it perhaps to the ancestry organisations or the National Archives etc.

I note that there is already a lot of information at The Accrington Pals

Rainbow. That web site you quoted, don't make me laugh, there are dozens of errors in it, where do you think all that info came from.
Have you ever read Bill Turners works on the Accrington Pals, a work of that magintude could only have been done by some one who is retired with over 3 years of researching up and down the country hours and hours of writing and typing, no computer, Bill didn't like them.
Starting at page 212 is a list of names & service numbers for the 11th supplied by Fergus Read, when Bill gave me a copy of his book, I indexed all those numbers in a database, & didn't like what I saw, so Bill & I spent every Thursday at Fulwood in 1990 going thro the 35mm films of the East Lancs records which had just become available, we found 41 had never served in the 11th E.L. 67 had been missed, several men with two entries on differnt pages who had been renumbered, after a stay in hospital and were retrained,.
Bill & I met up with Fergus again, and Fergus gave me his original notes, which I still have in a folder.
The owner of that web site will not answer my question where did he get his numbers from, when at that time only those 2 sources were available there are a heck of a lot of original Pals missing, several who never served with them.
Starting in 1999 Bill and I started going down to Kew Record office again spending several days at a time twice a year till 2003, going thro records & other documents looking for more info on the Pals.
Since Bill died my research has found a further 527 men who served in the 11th, and whilst on Ancestry I down loaded over 1000 sets of service records & practically all there Medal Cards, which I am now sorting, cleaniing up and printing on them, who they were and how long they served with the 11th, and the state they are in on Ancestry, means I've got at least another 12 months work ahead before they are finished.
Before Bill died we signed a document with the library staff, in which al Bills collection would be kept under lock an key, only two people to have keys, the head librarian & Me, along with a list of those to be denied access, only the librarian knows where their keys are kept, so the temp staff on duty can't be conned into openin Bills & my cabinets, and if the library is to close those cabinets will be coming here, if I've turned my toes up my youngsest says she will take them.