Around the
world, in November, many remember the men and women who gave their lives in
World War I and later conflicts. In the
UK, Canada and in other Commonwealth countries it’s called Armistice
day, Remembrance Day or Poppy Day while in the US it’s called Veterans
Day and in France in Belgium it’s called Armistice de la Première Guerre Mondiale. As the centenary of the start of the First World War (1914-1918),
this is an extra special year.
Read the
Wikipedia page Remembrance Day to learn about similar days of remembrance
around the world.
Here are
announcements about FREE access to
two major genealogical records websites ....
Findmypast
As we
remember those who have fallen, Findmypast
is making it’s website FREE this
weekend to help everyone find their First World War ancestors and learn more
about their family. The weekend
commences 12:00pm GMT (7am EST) today and runs through Monday (11:59am
GMT). You must be a registered user
(registration is free) to access the website.
You will
have access to:
- Birth, death and marriage
records from the
- Travel and migration records
from all over the world
- Millions of newspaper pages
from countries that include
- Military records from the
There will also be a Live Broadcast at 3pm (10am EST) on Saturday, November 8th (GMT), where some of our family history experts will be giving you advice to help you make the most of your research.
Ancestry.com
Subscription
genealogy site Ancestry.com announced that its top collections of old
military records are FREE to access in
honor of Veterans Day from now through Nov. 11 at 11:59 p.m. EST.
The free
records include all US
- WWI draft registration cards
- WWI Mothers' Pilgrimage Lists
- WWI, WWII and Korean War
casualty lists
There is
also a guide
to finding clues in WWI draft cards.
You do NOT
have to start a free trial to see the search results, though, you do have to
have an account (registration is free) to access the actual records.
A great way
to “remember” our ancestors who gave our lives is to learn all that we can
about them and make sure that they are never forgotten.
Editor’s Note: You can use worldtimebuddy to
convert the GMT times to those for your time zone.
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