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Offline Philip Reinders

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WOII sources for information about soldiers
« on: Saturday 23 November 24 13:18 GMT (UK) »
For my research about missing soldiers in the Netherlands, I have checked all the Dutch Archives.

At the moment I am on Fold3, Ancestery, Findmypart, Find a Grave, also checking online paper archives.

Any other online sources someone would recommend?

Is British Newspaer Archive the same source as can be found in Findmypast Newspaper search?

thanks in advance

Offline Andy J2022

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Re: WOII sources for information about soldiers
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 23 November 24 14:41 GMT (UK) »
I assume the title of this thread should read WWII not WOII. The only other place I would have suggested was the WW2Talk Forums, but I see you have been a member there since 2008.

And yes the British Newspaper Archive and the FindMyPast newspaper collection are the same database. However their search engines are different with, in my opinion, the FindMyPast one being slightly more user friendly.

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Re: WOII sources for information about soldiers
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 23 November 24 15:07 GMT (UK) »
WOII is the Dutch version! Wereld Oorlog II ;)
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Re: WOII sources for information about soldiers
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 23 November 24 15:20 GMT (UK) »
Thanks, KG. I don't speak Dutch and so I would probably have assumed that the Dutch words would be similar to German Zweite Weltkrieg.