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How to research prisoner of war ancestors

One of my regular tasks for the Scottish Genealogy Society is to keep an eye on new datasets released by the commercial genealogy websites. Whilst FindMyPast only release new information on Thursdays, this is not the case with Ancestry; updates can happen any day of the week and it is only by going into ‘recently added and updated collections’ ( that one can see what has

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