CAN YOU HELP?

Contributions of information for inclusion in the SOTQ Index are welcome and will be acknowledged on the website.

Being potentially a rather large and labour intensive project, only multi-name electronic documents can be processed for the SOTQ Index.  That is unfortunate but, with the limited resources available, it is simply not possible to process emails offering one or a handful of names. Ideally, the information provided should be in the .csv text file/spreadsheet format illustrated below as it is often difficult to extract the relevant data from ordinary text/word processor files or html documents.

The preferred format should just be a matter of organising the material into a table (using either a spreadsheet or perhaps a table within a word processor document) and saving that table separately as a comma-delimited text file (ie with the .csv suffix). The Calc spreadsheet package from the Open Office.org suite is a suitable tool which is available as a free, but rather large, download for Windows, Apple Mac and Linux.

Material for the SOTQ Index can be sent to croe@pcug.org.au as an email attachment.

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CSV data format, comma-delimited without any text delimiter (illustrative examples only :-)

Surname+	Initals/Given Name #	Rank*	Regimental Number*	Unit/Regiment	Source Document (preferably a URL) ^
JONES	A. Z.	Private	1234	999th Infantry Regt.	www.madeup.com.uk/999-QSAs.html
Smith	John	Sergeant	567	Nowhereshire Regt.	nowhereshire.com/3bn_nominalroll.pdf
Murphy	Patrick	Trooper	89	888th Irish Dragoons	www.green&orange.org.ir/boer/888Dragoons.html
McTavish	Hamish	Piper	10	777th Highland Fusiliers	www.weejimmysite.com/magersfonteinQSAs.htm
KELLY	Ned	Gunner	9876	666 Bty. (Drop Shorts)	Digger Dan's 666th enlistments ~
TAR	Jack	AB		HMS Unsinkable	www.rumsodomy&thelash.com/boerwar.htm
Goldener	Aurelius	Trooper	543	Uitlander's Horse	www.medalcollectorsite.com/QSA-irregulars.html
Nurk	Fred	Lance Corporal	210	Fleet of Foot	Joe Blow's Fleet of Foot nominal roll ~

+ It doesn't matter whether or not the surnames are in all upper case as the display script will do that.

# Similarly, it doesn't matter whether initials are followed by full stops and/or spaces as they will both be deleted when displayed.

* Inclusion of rank and regimental number where ever possible would be appreciated but is not obligatory. Those two fields are not included in the online SOTQ Index because it is an index to information available elsewhere - not an alternative source of that information. Rather, the rank and number data is to help identify Australians serving in the Boer War in non-Australian units for the Oz-Boer Database Project.

^ If an online source is not sufficiently self explanatory then some additional details will be needed.

~ Publication/availability details of documents that are not accessible online is needed for the sources page.

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Note: The Index of Soldiers and Nurses of the Queen in the Second Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 is a strictly non-commercial 'enthusiast' project.

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