The National Archives (TNA) at Kew has awarded a contract to digitise service personnel records held by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) to Ancestry.
In a blog post (ancestry.com/corporate/blog/celebrating-40-years-of-family-history-discoveries---ancestry-co), the family history website said that the set of more than three million records will go online between 2024 and 2029.
It added, “This will be the largest project around a particular set of records The National Archives has ever awarded to a partner. The digitization of these valuable records will enable people