For Research Identifiable-To-Be Medal Bars Number 3

[Mikko13]

Thanks for the offer Rick.

I will try this once more:

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/58860-imperial-bavarian-group-with-finnish-medals-picture-existing/

It was posted in June, but no response. Maybe it fell under the table due to the great Finnish awards thread.

Best regards

Mikko

[Guest Rick Research]

No, can't do yours because he was a Feldwebelleutnant from Bavaria. Need not only the BMV1X Roll, but because all Bavarian wartime awards were gazetted to peacetime unit affiliation, or if there was none to something like "of a reserve-bakery-company" then even WITH that, we still would have to know that the fellow WAS in Finland in his real unit.

It is almost (almost) never possible to do a non-officer--especially with only a pair of awards like this (BMV1X/Finnish Col4X--no Roll for THAT!).

WITH a name (if life were so easy....) then confirming his career would be easy.

To do this one, you would have to have

1) the BMV1X Roll

2) a paid subscription to Ancestry-dot-com to sit and go through their sloppily scanned images of every single BMV1X holder's Auszug aus der Kriegsrangliste to see if he was in Finland and got a FFK4X.

"Doable" with a superhuman amount of work, and considerable expense ONLY if we had a transcribed Roll of the Bavarian cross done.

This is a perfect case of waiting-for-data STILL requiring months of time to get to a result.

That's why Research Gnomes could never charge by-the-hour. Far too many hours/day/weeks are "wasted" eliminating suspects until (hoefully and never guaranteed) only one is left.

"Instant" answers make us laugh... it takes soooooooooooooooooooo lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng to get there!

Edited August 5, 2013 by Rick Research

[Mikko13]

Rick, thank you for your explanation.