Ancestry.com
and Lest We Forget
Search tips:
1.
Put in as much
exact information as you can (you have lots from the service records)
2.
Refine by Country
(Search menu “Card Catalogue” feature –choose North America, then Canada)
3.
In the Search
menu, you can limit to the type of records (eg. “Military”) –make sure that you
make Canadian records a priority (option is at the bottom of the search page)
4.
DO SOME
THINKING! Don’t search outside the
soldier’s lifetime, or from unrelated files –if he wasn’t married, don’t look
for him in the Marriage Index, for example.
5.
Search the Public
Family Trees, and Personal Story databases –these may give you some people to
contact, or more information/photos, etc.
6.
DO NOT GIVE UP
AFTER ONE TRY! This is research, and you
may have to try a few databases, and some different methods to dig up info on
your soldier.
**Remember: You can come in at lunch, or
until 4pm every day to work on Ancestry!!
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