Ok so I gave in and bought some credits on Find my Past, 60 for just over £6, as I had found 5 records relating to my grandfather's military service, census and birth/marriage.
What did I expect?
Well I have used up most of the credits already the first morning, 2 service records were almost exactly the same (1 number different, which was annoying!) and the census record image was far too small to see the writing! It disappeared half way through my download. I couldn't find anywhere to resize the image before printing.
The site says the images are full screen but they don't say that they revert to just half a page when you print them off? I would have liked to save it to my computer to enlarge further but I couldn't?
So what did I do wrong? I'm a bit disappointed.
Also how accurate are the records?
I had a totally different Army unit to the one I got, but if it's true that that was his first unit then I have found something out I didn't know.
What did I expect?
Well I have used up most of the credits already the first morning, 2 service records were almost exactly the same (1 number different, which was annoying!) and the census record image was far too small to see the writing! It disappeared half way through my download. I couldn't find anywhere to resize the image before printing.
The site says the images are full screen but they don't say that they revert to just half a page when you print them off? I would have liked to save it to my computer to enlarge further but I couldn't?
So what did I do wrong? I'm a bit disappointed.
Also how accurate are the records?
I had a totally different Army unit to the one I got, but if it's true that that was his first unit then I have found something out I didn't know.
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