30 October 2019

Ancestry adds Scotland, Ireland and Wales, Militia Attestation Papers, 1800-1915

NOTE: As of 19 December this database is again showing in the Ancestry Card Catalog after having been missing.

New to Ancestry on 29 October, although plagued by availability and search problems when I tried it, this collection of 129,682 records covers militia attestation from the Napoleonic era to the start of the Great War.
Drawn from collection WO 96 at The (UK) National Archives, the following information should become available:

Name
Name of relative(s)
Relationship to serviceman
Place and date of birth
Place and date of Enlistment
Gender
Regiment and unit
Service rank
Service number

A more complete collection of WO 96 records is available in Findmypast's British Army Service Records collection of more than 8 million documents between 1760 and 1939.

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