Forces War Records now holds 590 million records <\/p>
Military records Forces War Records<\/a> has relaunched with access to Ancestry<\/a>\u2019s military records collections.<\/p>\n Ancestry, one of the world\u2019s largest family history websites, acquired Forces War Records<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n The site relaunched on 29 March with a new look and access to Ancestry\u2019s military records, increasing its offering from 28 million records to over 590 million.<\/p>\n The Ancestry collections include Women\u2019s Royal Air Force Service Records (1918-1920); Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner<\/a> Soldier Service Records (1760-1920); Australian<\/a> First<\/a> and Second World War<\/a> service records; New Zealand First World War Service Records; Allied Second World War POW<\/a> records; and British First World War pension ledgers and index cards, previously only available<\/a> on Ancestry\u2019s specialist military records website Fold3.<\/p>\n Ancestry said that eventually access to Forces War Records will be included in its All Access Membership, which also includes access to Fold3<\/a> and Newspapers.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Laura Driffield, Director of International Family History Verticals at Ancestry, said: \u201cWe knew that our users loved the military expertise of Forces War Records, including its deep knowledge of wartime events. However, to enable customers to make meaningful family discoveries we had to incorporate better search tools, more image based records, and the ability to save records to their Ancestry family tree.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Rosemary Collins is the features editor of\u00a0<\/em>Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n Forces War Records now holds 590 million records <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":23947,"template":"","categories":[1,16],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2023\/04\/ancestry-military-records-now-available-on-forces-war-records.png",2540,1351,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2023\/04\/ancestry-military-records-now-available-on-forces-war-records-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2023\/04\/ancestry-military-records-now-available-on-forces-war-records-300x160.png",300,160,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2023\/04\/ancestry-military-records-now-available-on-forces-war-records-768x408.png",768,408,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2023\/04\/ancestry-military-records-now-available-on-forces-war-records-1024x545.png",800,426,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2023\/04\/ancestry-military-records-now-available-on-forces-war-records-1536x817.png",1536,817,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2023\/04\/ancestry-military-records-now-available-on-forces-war-records-2048x1089.png",2048,1089,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/wdytya\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Forces War Records now holds 590 million records","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/wdytya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/23946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/wdytya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/wdytya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/wdytya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/wdytya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/wdytya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/wdytya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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