Dick Eastman had the following announcement in this morning's newsletter: Largest Collection of Canadian WWI Death and Burial Records Now Online The following announcement was written by Ancestry.ca: Records offer rare insight into the circumstances of death and final resting grounds for Canadian soldiers who perished in First World War -- Ancestry.ca * Famous names include John McCrae, George Lawrence Price and Henry Norwest * Ancestry.ca to offer free access to select Canadian, US and British military records from November 11-14 There are three new databases (available now for subscribers, Nov. 11-14 free for others) and I checked them out. I used the names of three known casualties from my family to search. There is new information in these databases that is not in the service records I hady already obtained from Library and Archives Canada. For instance: the burial locations are exact, the cause of death may be included rather than just "Killed in Action". In one case, it described the wound that killed the soldier in detail. Canada, CEF Burial Registers, First World War, 1914-1919 <http://search.ancestry.ca/search/db.aspx?dbid=1973> Canada, CEF Commonwealth War Graves Registers, 1914-1919 <http://search.ancestry.ca/search/db.aspx?dbid=1952> One of the databases Canada, Selected Service Records of Soldiers, 1914-1918 <http://search.ancestry.ca/search/db.aspx?dbid=1903> - Free Index is very selective indeed. Having read many service records, I am sure there are some that will never be included in this database. But check it out anyway as some of the records contain over a 100 pages for the soldier. Pam