Researching Forces Ancestors (England and Wales)

Kirsty Gray
Aug 21, 2018
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About this webinar

Do you have a British ancestor who served as a soldier or sailor? This webinar will highlight the sources available over the last two centuries both online and offline, including researching at The National Archives (Kew), in local repositories and museums, to add flesh to the bones of your ancestor's service history.

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About the speaker

Kirsty is a professional genealogist and ‘people finder’ who runs her own research company Family Wise Limited. As a freelance author, she has published articles in family, local and social history ma...
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    Legacy Family Tree
    7 years ago

    Amazing presenter!\n\nBrilliant webinar with lots of great information to trace family members who served in the military.\n\nClear, good graphics, good topic, practical. It was another great talk. Thanks.\n\nEnjoy learning about other countries than US\n\nExcellent\n\nGood presenter. Thanks\n\nGreat info. Great presenter.\n\nGreat presentation! Thank you\n\nGreat presentation! Thank you!\nGreat webinar! Not familiar with any of this, so will be watching it again. Thanks :)\n\nGreat.\n\nI found the webinar very, very helpful in my quest to find my maternal grandmother's siblings that I have pictures of but no info. Both grandparents and their families are deceased now. I love Kristy's webinars and would like to congratulate her on another webinar very well done!!\n\nI have ancestors from both Great Briton and Wales so this was a very interesting webinar for me. I'm glad to see that there is much more military information available than I thought. Thank you for discussing this topic in such a clear way.\n\nI have not found any ancestors from England but this is good to know. Thanks\n\ninteresting as finding out what exists and was presented to the common listener\n\nInteresting.\n\nInteresting.\n\nInteresting. A bit involved, but anxious to do a bit of research and see what can be found. Thanks!\n\nIt didn't really pertain to me, but I learned some new research websites for Britain.\n\nKirsty gave me SO many tips and ideas for researching my family for their war records. Give Kirsty a big "thank you".\n\nlots of info for researching\n\nLots of information in to short of time. I learned about some other places then what I already have used for finding my records.\n\nSolid knowledge of subject matter & thorough handout\n\nTerrific. Would like to know more about the Boer War. Thanks\n\nThanks for all the info!\n\nThe session was excellent. Well prepared and presented. Some good hints. \n\nvery enjoyable.\n\nVery Good!\n\nVery informative; a webinar to review again.\n\nVery interesting and useful for future research.\n\nVery interesting and well done! My era was before records of this sort were kept, but I have ideas of other people to research. As usual Legacy has the best!!\n\nVery interesting. I now have additional areas to search for my British males ancestors who fought for the UK in WWI and WWII.\n\nVery knowledgeable and provided me with avenues I have yet to explore.\n\nVery well presented and interesting info about researching forces ancestors.\n\nWonderful speaker!\n\nWonderful webinar on military records for England.\n\nWow! Awesome information! Thank you.

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