You're entitled by laws to see them if they fall outside 115 years birth ( it's 115 years not a 100 years, so many will have to wait a lot longer than 4 years as suggested in a previous reply (if their ancestor was only 18 years old.).
I've applied for my grandfather's records from the TNA which have been recently moved over to them ( his birth falls just outside the 115 years ) . They have given me an estimate price and I waiting on another letter back for the final price from them. ( I applied to the MOD, and they searched for me and informed me where it could be found , file number , in the TNA)
I think I am more offended that ancestry has got the contract(?) . I didn't know that.
Yuk!
There are living people on those records, children of the soldiers.
I am not too happy about that being published. I hope they are going to redact
the children's births on the records . It may be OK for England and Wales , but other countries such as N.Ireland have stricter privacy with publishing births online under 100 years.
My mother's and her siblings births aren't online and their births can't be searched for by any Tom Dick and Harry on the net , but yet if my grandfather's record was online, they would be publishing my living mother's birth details . Why should people be able to track her down? ( and I do have an extremely good reason for not wanting her name on the net, so that she can't be tracked down - which I won't go into the details here)
I also know ( knew)my grandfather only too well , he certainly would not have wanted his records published on the net. He'd be absolutely mortified!
It is too soon, My grandfather spent his entire career in the army and only retired from it in the early 1960s
No thank you.
I won't be signing for countless reasons, but mainly because it does actually affect the living.
Kind regards
