by Sherry Irvine, CG, FSA Scot
Twenty years ago I spent a number of afternoons in a library sitting on the floor working my way through a set of the "War Graves of the British Empire." I was looking for Corporal S.L. Nuttall, my maternal grandfather's brother. I was new to genealogy; if there was a quicker way to find Corporal Nuttall, I did not know about it.
How things have changed! Not only can I locate my great-uncle's grave, I can find the same information at the website of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission where I can read the details of the inscription, find his father's name, and look at a plan and a photograph of the cemetery.
Ancestry.co.uk is another website presenting records of the first World War. In cooperation with the National Archives of the United Kingdom, it has recently added British Army WWI Pension Records, 1914-1920. Documents for surnames beginning with A and B have been uploaded in the first phase and the remainder will follow over the next eighteen months.
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