As of today, 240,545 of 640,000 files are available online via our Soldiers of the First World War: 1914–1918 database. Please visit the Digitization of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Service Files page for more details on the digitization project.
Library and Archives Canada is digitizing the service files systematically, from box 1 to box 10686, which roughly corresponds to alphabetical order. Please note that over the years, the content of some boxes has had to be moved and, you might find that the file you want, with a surname that is supposed to have been digitized, is now located in another box that has not yet been digitized. So far, we have digitized the following files:
- Latest box digitized: Box 3962 and surname Halliwell.
Please check the database regularly for new additions and if you still have questions after checking the database, you may contact us directly at 1-866-578-7777 for more assistance.
Reblogged this on Roots to the Past and commented:
It’s great to see another update on these files.
It says that files are added every two weeks, but their has not been any additions in 3 weeks, curious to when more are going to be put up?
Thanks
Hello, thank you for your interest in the CEF files. We add new files to the database every two weeks, but publish a monthly progress report on the blog.
Thank you for the fast reply, the relative I have been anxiously waiting for is only a few hundred off the last blog post in the box 4200 range so I have been checking daily to see if that file has been added, for I don’t know when the 2 week additions dates are, thanks again