Hello Paul, Its a problem with Ancestry. A number of people have experienced this. I'm able to access the record. My advice would be to keep trying. If it continues to be a problem let me know and I will download them on your behalf. I could zip them and put them on my webspace for you to download from there. Regards Mike S Sunday, August 5, 2007, 10:53:59 AM, you wrote: > Mike, > I tried to look at the pension record of my grandfather Wilfred George > Glover on ancestry.com but when I click on view original image it is > blank. Do you think this is an error by ancestry.com or is it because > the document is missing/damaged/burnt? > Regards, > Paul Glover > Germany > Mike Shingleton schrieb: >>Bill, >> >> >> >>>are all Great War soldiers service papers published on Ancestry" >>> >>> >> >>Simple answer - no. Only some 30% to 40% of records have survived. >>The vast majority of records of First World War soldiers were >>destroyed during WW2. Those which survived are fire and water >>damaged, often fragmentary (in terms of both individual pages and >>complete records) and are known as 'the burnt records'. They can be >>found on microfilm under catalogue class WO 363 at the National >>Archives at Kew in London. >> >>There is another set of service records held on microfilm at the >>National Archives in catalogue class WO 364. These papers are service >>records which were being used for pensions purposes and being held >>elsewhere survived the attentions of the Luftwaffe. >> >>It is these records which have just appeared online at Ancestry. >> >>My understanding is that Ancestry intend to put the 'burnt records' >>in WO 363 online by the end of 2008. >> >>Hope this helps >> >> >> >> >>Mike S >> >> >> >> >>------------------------------- >>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 >> >> >> > > ------------------------------- > 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

Can I just add that I am frequently getting blank pages when using Firefox as my browser, but that the same pages load perfectly well in Internet Explorer. Regards ----- Sue Sue Light [Lancing, West Sussex] www.scarletfinders.co.uk On 05/08/07, Mike Shingleton <shinglma_64@btopenworld.com> wrote: > > Hello Paul, > > Its a problem with Ancestry. A number of people have experienced > this. I'm able to access the record. My advice would be to keep > trying. > > If it continues to be a problem let me know and I will download them > on your behalf. I could zip them and put them on my webspace for you > to download from there. > > Regards > > > Mike S > > Sunday, August 5, 2007, 10:53:59 AM, you wrote: > > > Mike, > > > I tried to look at the pension record of my grandfather Wilfred George > > Glover on ancestry.com but when I click on view original image it is > > blank. Do you think this is an error by ancestry.com or is it because > > the document is missing/damaged/burnt? > > > Regards, > > Paul Glover > > Germany > > >

Hello Sue, That's interesting. I've not been getting missing pages but Firefox frequently crashes on these records whilst IE seems ok. Regards Mike S Sunday, August 5, 2007, 11:55:33 AM, you wrote: > Can I just add that I am frequently getting blank pages when using Firefox > as my browser, but that the same pages load perfectly well in Internet > Explorer. > Regards ----- Sue > Sue Light > [Lancing, West Sussex] > www.scarletfinders.co.uk > On 05/08/07, Mike Shingleton <shinglma_64@btopenworld.com> wrote: >> >> Hello Paul, >> >> Its a problem with Ancestry. A number of people have experienced >> this. I'm able to access the record. My advice would be to keep >> trying. >> >> If it continues to be a problem let me know and I will download them >> on your behalf. I could zip them and put them on my webspace for you >> to download from there. >> >> Regards >> >> >> Mike S >> >> Sunday, August 5, 2007, 10:53:59 AM, you wrote: >> >> > Mike, >> >> > I tried to look at the pension record of my grandfather Wilfred George >> > Glover on ancestry.com but when I click on view original image it is >> > blank. Do you think this is an error by ancestry.com or is it because >> > the document is missing/damaged/burnt? >> >> > Regards, >> > Paul Glover >> > Germany >> >> > > > ------------------------------- > 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

Mike Firefox has never handled Ancestry very well - census, BMDs, everything really. Until about a year ago it wasn't possible to access some of the features, like the buttons at the top of the page that let you scroll backwards and forwards through the pages. Then there was some sort of tweaking, and it improved, but now I get quite a few pages that fail to load and just remain white, often followed by the inevitable crash. I tend to use IE all the time now. But I do believe that many of the reported 'missing pages' are the result of browser incompatibility with Ancestry. It would be interesting to know which browsers are being used when images are failing to load. Sue On 05/08/07, Mike Shingleton <shinglma_64@btopenworld.com> wrote: > > Hello Sue, > > That's interesting. I've not been getting missing pages but Firefox > frequently crashes on these records whilst IE seems ok. > > Regards > > > > Mike S > > Sunday, August 5, 2007, 11:55:33 AM, you wrote: > > > Can I just add that I am frequently getting blank pages when using > Firefox > > as my browser, but that the same pages load perfectly well in Internet > > Explorer. > > > Regards ----- Sue > > > > Sue Light > > [Lancing, West Sussex] > > www.scarletfinders.co.uk > > > > > > > On 05/08/07, Mike Shingleton <shinglma_64@btopenworld.com> wrote: > >> > >> Hello Paul, > >> > >> Its a problem with Ancestry. A number of people have experienced > >> this. I'm able to access the record. My advice would be to keep > >> trying. > >> > >> If it continues to be a problem let me know and I will download them > >> on your behalf. I could zip them and put them on my webspace for you > >> to download from there. > >> > >> Regards > >> > >> > >> Mike S > >> > >> Sunday, August 5, 2007, 10:53:59 AM, you wrote: > >> > >> > Mike, > >> > >> > I tried to look at the pension record of my grandfather Wilfred > George > >> > Glover on ancestry.com but when I click on view original image it is > >> > blank. Do you think this is an error by ancestry.com or is it because > >> > the document is missing/damaged/burnt? > >> > >> > Regards, > >> > Paul Glover > >> > Germany > >> > >> > > > > > ------------------------------- > > 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

On 05/08/07, Sue Light <light.sue@gmail.com> wrote: > > Firefox has never handled Ancestry very well - census, BMDs, everything > really. I've been using Firefox for about 4 years now and I've never had any problem accessing Ancestry using it and I've always been able to use the scroll buttons All in all I think it's a far superior browser than IE Diane