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Tag Archives: WWI service files
This week’s crème de la crème — March 9, 2024
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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Tagged FamilySearch, Ireland, legacy, Library and Archives Canada, methodology, MyHeritage, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, RootsTech, WWI service files
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Library and Archives Canada webinar — WWI photos online
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
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
LAC reaches half-way mark in WWI service files digitization project
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
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
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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Tagged Canadian Expeditionary Force, Library and Archives Canada, WWI service files
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This week’s crème de la crème — April 16, 2016
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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Tagged blogs, Franco-Americans, Grey Nuns, homesteading, Irish, Irish Famine, John Grenham, Louis Riel, Loyalists, Manitoba, Ontario, United Empire Loyalists, Vimy Ridge, WWI service files
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H is for Holland — LAC WWI digitization project update
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
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
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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