The British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa (BIFHSGO) launched its blog yesterday with an article about the Honouring Our Military Ancestors Challenge and an extract of a biography of a WWI soldier from the public database, Canada’s No. 1 Casualty Clearing Station, that is available on their website.
The purpose of the blog is to share society and industry news “in order to encourage and support genealogy research by people with an interest or ancestry in the British Isles (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands).”
The society’s social media team plans to publish at least one blog post a month. You can follow the blog by signing up for email notifications in the right-hand margin on the home page.
The biography of the soldier is one of 300 researched and written by BIFHSGO volunteers on the 879 soldiers who died at the No.1 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station. Canada’s casualty clearing stations, located within a few miles of the Front, were one of the most important links within the Canadian Army Medical Corps for the treatment of Allied wounded soldiers during WWI.
