Ancestry Canada and Ancestry UK Offering Free Access to War Time Records #unitedkingdom


Jan Meisels Allen
 

Canada
Ancestry is offering free access to all Canadian Military Records >from 8
November 2019 to 11 November 2019 11:59 p.m. ET
Please use the time converter to check the time in your time zone;
http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc

You must register with your name, email address and password. Go to:
https://www.ancestry.ca/cs/remembrance-day
Fill out the form with the person you are searching with their name and
location and birth year if you have it. When the results page comes up
select the record for your person. Then select the record. If you want to
save the record to your computer click on the green save box in the upper
right. If you want to print or download click on the tools icon on the
right of the screen.

to see the list of collections available for free during this promotion go
to:
https://www.ancestry.ca/search/categories/ca_military/

After the free access period ends, you will only be able to view the records
in the featured collection using a paid Ancestry membership. If you try to
access any records not included in the free offer you will be invited to
subscribe.

United Kingdom

Ancestry is offering free access to all United Kingdom Military Records
(World War l and World War ll) >from 8 November 2019 to 11 November 2019
11:59 p.m. ET
Please use the time converter to check the time in your time zone:
http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc
You must register with your name, email address and password. You must
register separately >from your US or Canadian subscription.

to see the records included in the free access to military records go to:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/categories/uk_wartime_collections/
On the top of the page fill out the form with the person you are searching with
their name and location and birth year if you have it. When the results
page comes up select the record for your person. Then select the record. If
you want to save the record to your computer click on the green save box in
the upper right. If you want to print or download click on the tools icon
on the right of the screen.

After the free access period ends, you will only be able to view the records
in the featured collection using a paid Ancestry membership. If you try to
access any records not included in the free offer you will be invited to
subscribe.

I have no affiliation with Ancestry and am posting this solely for the
information of the reader.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

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