It’s a good question, actually. If you’re on the record page that shows you the results of your search, you should have a link to “View the original image.” Click that link (which you may have already done). When the image comes up, use the arrow buttons at the top right of the image screen (next to the button that says Go) to move from page to page in the file.

If this isn’t clear, let me know. I work on a Mac, and my screen sometimes displays a bit differently.

Thanks to anyone/everyone who can give me instructions.

Don’t get me wrong. I shudder to think where my research would be if I had to do this by foot and not the internet. Ancestry has saved countless hours of research and expense (as well as the free sites and I could name a bazillion).

The global search is misleading and wish that ancestry would do more to make this clear.

Without knowing the specifics of your searches, I don’t know if I can offer much help. I do limit my searches sometimes by going to the collection page and searching from there. For example, searching the Boer War casualty lists from here

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1912

will limit your results to just those records.

After you start a search, the Narrow by Category options that come up at the left of the screen could be helpful, if you haven’t tried those already.

Thank You for your time.

Hmm. My short answer: I’m not sure.

I did run into a situation where the person I was looking for had two files under two different spellings of the last name—and tied to two different states. One had only the card, and the other was pages long, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here.

Have you seen a paper copy of John’s pension file? The images in this database were taken from the NARA microfilm of the files. I was wondering if we had missed some pages, but there is no break in the roll sequence on the database here (John Roe is on microfilm page 0208, which is followed by 0209, etc.). If I remember right, some records associated with the pension files were moved to other government departments somewhere along the line, but I don’t know if this would explain why a file had not been filmed at NARA. I will have to look into that a little more.

Thank you.