Hello Peter, See below Monday, August 13, 2007, 8:47:23 AM, you wrote: > I have some questions for you very knowledgable people. > I am researching seven soldiers from my home town who were discharged through illness during > the war and died shortly after. > I found the pension records of only five of them on Ancestry. One of those I couldn't find > was definitely pensioned off as his obituary says so. The other was demobbed then died of > pneumonia shortly after so perhaps he wasn't in receipt of a pension. Ancestry have confused matters by calling these pension records - these are service records which survived the blitz because they were being used for pension purposes and were therefore held offsite. They do not include records for every pensioner and they include an awful lot of records for men who never received a pension. Its even been known for one or two casualties to turn up. > Of the other five, one of the records clearly has two pages missing. There were supposed to > eleven but there were only nine though parts of the missing pages could be seen in the > photographs. This might be browser related. Let me know the details and I'll see if I experience the same difficulties. > My question is will I have to view the original records in Kew to copy these pages or will > they be on the microfilm copy (or is it fiche)? You can't view the original papers for this series - only the microfilms. There has been a rumour that the microfilms will be withdrawn once these papers are online for reasons of space (presumably the rationale being that the FRC has to move in to the NA and you can't fit a quart in to a pint pot). > Though these records are very informative, will there also be records of these men in WO 363? Yes there is some duplication. I would normally check both as papers can be found in both series. > Finally, I have a good digital camera and was wondering if they copy well from microfilm or > fiche. I've not tried it but a pal of mine swears by it. He reckons the result is much better that the microfilm printers (which is not saying much). The flexibility would be an obvious asset. Hope this helps > Regards > Peter > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GREATWAR-request@rootsweb.com with the > word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Best regards, Mike mailto:shinglma_64@btopenworld.com