I've just received a copy of the August 2021 edition of Who Do You Think You Are? magazine (www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com), and there's a huge development covered in two parts by the publication with regards to the military records of the Second World War. The headline news is that the great migration of some 9.7 million service records has commenced from the Ministry of Defence in Glasgow to the National Archives at Kew, England (www.nationalarchives.gov.uk), in a process that is estimated will take up to seven years to complete. According to TNA, further details will be announced "in the coming weeks".
You can read more of the development in a letter by Anthony Bevis to the magazine, and in this issue's main news story, which also focusses on the current delays being experienced by those seeking to access post-WW1 service records (which can normally be done for £30) from the MoD.
And if you're interested, there is also a review from yours truly on David Dobson's great new book, Scottish Genealogy: The Basics and Beyond...!
Chris
Just out, Sharing Your Family History Online is on sale at https://bit.ly/SharingFamHist. Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 is also out, as are Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed) at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Irish1 and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scotland1. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.
No comments:
Post a Comment