National Archives Military Records
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National Archives Military Records
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We’re pleased to announce that we've awarded AncestryUK the contract to digitise the first tranche of DefenceHQ (MOD) service personnel records.
Both parties are looking forward to working to make these important records accessible in digital format. Details of the schedule will be announced soon.
More about the records themselves, including answers to the most frequently asked questions about the transfer, here 👇
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/...ilable-update/
We’re pleased to announce that we've awarded AncestryUK the contract to digitise the first tranche of DefenceHQ (MOD) service personnel records.
Both parties are looking forward to working to make these important records accessible in digital format. Details of the schedule will be announced soon.
More about the records themselves, including answers to the most frequently asked questions about the transfer, here 👇
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/...ilable-update/
and of course Ancestry will charge for access........................
I should have added, apart from the many hundreds or thousands of hours in digitising the records, there's a lot more involved in indexing them.
Last edited by DHfan; 2nd Mar 2023 at 21:07.
You search through them with no index...
The records themselves are public property I believe. The index belongs to Ancestry as they created it.
Who did the initial digitising I've no idea, but if it was Ancestry why shouldn't they want, and get, a return on their labour?
Somebody's got to pay for the staff.
Moving the conversation further, you can argue that our military aircraft are ours; few have issues paying a fee to see them in museums though. So why the (fake) outrage here? And as mentioned already, similar records have required payment of a fee for a long time already.
A lot of the transcribers etc are UK prisoners I believe