Forces War Records

[yena]

Does anybody know if the information on the Forces War Records site is different to the information on Ancestry? Looking at getting a subscription, but, I don't want to waste the moeny if it's the same.

Thank you

Yena

[Waitabit]

Rather depends on which is the ' Forces War Records' site to which you refer.
also which year. There are a few of them out there. Have you looked at Find my past?

[yena]

Thank you Wendy for your reply. The Forces War Records site I'm looking at:
https://www.
forces-war-records.co.uk/search/search_result.asp?surname=kirk&ref=jubilee_email_f riday&off=QE2
I have used Find my Past a couple of time, but, don't really like the site. I have already got some records from the first world war and some POW records from Ancestry. Was hoping the Forces War Records site, might offer me more.

[TheoWhite]

Well I was a member of Forces War Records for two months and found them to be very useful. !!!
The £8.95 payment wasnt that expensive to have access to that many records from history and you can do a free search to see if they have the record you want, but you have to pay to view. I made good use of it by seaching my family, my wife's and a close friend. Quite impressed with what I found out and the service was good when I had an issue not finding a WWI record and a WWII record. They expalined (by email as no phone service) that many WWI files were destroyed in the Blitz and that many WWII records are not releasable to the General Public by the MoD and only the MoD will hold these records. Though they gave me the details to get them.
Had good information on the unit history and medals. I also noticed they have free POW records which cost £70(ish) to get from the Red Cross.
In all i was happy and would recommend.

[alexei f]

I noticed Forces War Records now have "an online digital library of books, newspapers and magazines, some more than a hundred years old."
https://www.
forces-war-records.co.uk/Library/Search
A quick search of areas I was interested in seems to show 1052 scanned old publications, journals, instruction manuals etc. Though perhaps not directly useful for genealogical research, they may be of interest to some people for general research purposes.

[exiled brummie]

I have a subscription with Forces War Records and like Theo have found the site useful. There I found the record card for my uncle who served in the Royal Navy and was killed in action in 1944, plus another from the Boer War.

[jac65]

When did his mother die? The additional family information on the CWGC website comes from forms that were sent to next of kin some years after the end of WW1, I've a similar situation were a parent who didn't die until 1921 was shown as deceased on the CWGC website, the CWGC confirmed that the forms weren't completed until some time in the 1920s

Andy