Tag Archives: WWI service files

This week’s crème de la crème — March 9, 2024

Posted on March 9, 2024 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsAccessing Personnel Records of the First World War: A new database at Library and Archives Canada by Richard Yeomans on Library and Archives Canada Blog. How to navigate Order-in-Council records part three: … Continue reading →

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Library and Archives Canada webinar — WWI photos online

Posted on November 8, 2021 by Gail Dever

Library and Archives Canada will host the free webinar, In the Trenches: Photographs of the First World War, on Wednesday, November 10, at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time, on Facebook and YouTube. Are you interested in the history of the First … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — October 29, 2016

Posted on October 29, 2016 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Launch of First World War personnel records database on Library and Archives Canada Blog. First impressions: LAC’s new Personnel Records of the FWW by Steve Clifford on Doing Our Big. A … Continue reading →

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LAC reaches half-way mark in WWI service files digitization project

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Gail Dever

As of yesterday, Library and Archives Canada had passed the half-way mark, having digitized 320,638 of 640,000 Canadian Expeditionary Force service files and making them available online in its Soldiers of the First World War: 1914–1918 database. Library and Archives … Continue reading →

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J is for Jellyman — Latest update to LAC’s WWI digitization project

Posted on May 16, 2016 by Gail Dever

Library and Archives Canada announced yesterday that the project to digitize all Canadian Expeditionary Force service files has reached the name, Jellyman, in box 4,810. There is a total of 640,000 service files in 10,686 boxes, so they are closing … Continue reading →

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LAC’s WWI digitization project and an impatient genealogist

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Gail Dever

A genealogist recently expressed his impatience with what he saw as the lack of progress in Library and Archives Canada’s (LAC) project to digitize 640,000 WWI service files. The comment was made after LAC announced last week it had digitized … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — April 16, 2016

Posted on April 16, 2016 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Digitization of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Personnel Service Files – Update of April 2016 on the Library and Archives Canada Blog. Gems in Homestead Files by Patricia Greber on My Genealogy … Continue reading →

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H is for Holland — LAC WWI digitization project update

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Gail Dever

It won’t be long before the folks at Library and Archives Canada digitizing the WWI service files see the end of family names ending in the letter H. As of yesterday, LAC had digitized 254,296 of 640,000 files. The last … Continue reading →

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LAC digitizes almost 14,000 WWI service files this month

Posted on February 16, 2016 by Gail Dever

Since January 15, Library and Archives Canada has digitized 13,751 WWI service files for a total of 254,296 to date of 640,000 Canadian Expeditionary Files. The lastest box digitized is number 4224 and surname Hebert. These files are available online … Continue reading →

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LAC digitizes 9,000 WWI service files this month

Posted on January 15, 2016 by Gail Dever

As of January 15, 2016, Library and Archives Canada has digitized 240,545 of 640,000 Canadian Expeditionary Files and these are available online in its Soldiers of the First World War: 1914-1918 database. The lastest box digitized is Box 3962 and … Continue reading →

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