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 > > >