Forces War Records Now Stores Over 4 Million British Armed Forces Military Records
The following news release is from the PRWEB UK:
Forces War Records holds the most extensive database of British Armed Forces who either died in battle or are still alive today. New records are added on a daily basis – in the last month 29,194 records were added.
(PRWEB UK) 19 June 2012 – Forces War Records is the definitive location for military genealogy records online. The database includes records from WW2, WW1, the Boer War, the Crimean War and beyond. It is the only online database which now includes over 4 million military records of British Armed Forces personnel exclusively cross matched with over 4000 Regiments, Bases and Ships of the British Armed Forces going back to before 1350.
Of interest to the discerning family historian, these records are presented in an easy searchable format, and provide a great resource for family ancestry searches. The online database contains military service records; lists of those who served in regiments and units; information about battles and medals awarded, and allows members to search by unit, name, photo and even electoral roll.
Forces War Records was founded in November 2001 by ex army veteran Dominic Hayhoe, with the aim of simplifying military genealogy searches. The site also includes free access to a lively community of living veterans; Military Genealogy Tutorials and a team of Researchers for detailed research tasks.
“We are the only site to collate military genealogy records in any easy to use database, meaning you find your ancestors’ history in minutes”, said Mr Hayhoe.
Partnering sites include Forces Reunited where individuals can reunite with those they served with; an Army Surplus and Camping Equipment shop; a Careers site and a British Armed Forces Dating site.Search military records by name and unit, and find out more about military genealogy on the Forces War Records website.
June 21st, 2012 at 1:55 pm
I found m ost of my mums side of the family with this site!
Love it!
October 27th, 2012 at 6:38 pm
My experience of the Forces War Records Web site is that it is near to a scam. The information it provides is very basic contrary to its ‘shop window’. It also automatically ticks a box in subscriber profile page without authorisation for automatic renewal of subscription. When this is unticked this is no email advice of the change and in my case mysteriously appeared ticked again resulting in another charge for the next month.
November 5th, 2012 at 2:50 pm
Have to say Ive had nothing but good results from this site, finding 3 of the 4 relatives I was looking for, that I couldnt find on Ancestry.
November 16th, 2012 at 8:39 am
I agree with Simon comments.
I have also had a further subscription taken off me without approval.
Have now unticked box but am really annoyed that this site presumes wrongly that you wish to continue subscription even though you only requested a month…..this a con to get monies out of you before you can alter setting.
Why don’t they make this more clear when you initially subscribe….typical way of confusing and used by a variety of sites.
November 30th, 2012 at 12:44 am
I have used Forces War Records in the past and have found it very useful, they had 3 of the 4 records I couldn’t find elsewhere and a ton of other useful info as well.
I would recommend this site no problem.
December 1st, 2012 at 2:55 pm
My visits to Forces War Records have been nothing but good. I discovered quite a few records I couldnt find on Ancestry and then added them there. I would recommend starting your tree with Ancestry, but no site is going to have every record about everything so using a niche military site for military records make sense to me.
I would happily recommend this site.
December 2nd, 2012 at 4:06 am
I was also a member of Forces War Records for a while. I found the site a bit hard to navigate like Ancestry, but that’s probably just because I’m fairly new to this internet thingy!
I did however discover a record of my granddad who served in India and it was fascinating.
March 9th, 2013 at 2:18 pm
Forces War Records Review
I have used Forces War Records amongst others such as Ancestry and Find My Past and because I am (and my ancestors are) Jewish found Forces War Records had far more to offer me because of the records they have transcribed.
If you are Jewish (or your ancestors are) I would thoroughly recommend it as I found several records on Forces War Records that weren’t on any other site.
April 5th, 2013 at 3:30 pm
I agree with Simon, this site is a SCAM. The information they provide, can be found for free, at the commonwealth war graves commission http://www.cwgc.org
May 2nd, 2013 at 1:31 am
Hi,
John- can’t see what you mean -the site has a LOT more than CWGC -if CWGC stuff is what you want Ancestry/FMP also have the same so no argument really.
Simon & Rob -did you contact the site to ask why you’d been resubscribed?
You’ll find the site refunds immediately without fuss if you think you’ve been wrongly billed, I had the same problem with Ancestry and part from the fact they insist on you ‘phoning -it was resolved very professionally.
FWR do the same so no real moans there.