FamilySearch (free) Index records RAF Service Records-already available Findmypast/Ancestry (pay)

[MaureenE]

If you don't have access to the pay websites Findmypast and Ancestry/fold3, you may be interested in a new database on the free website FamilySearch titled

United Kingdom, Royal Air Force Service Records, 1912-1945 , consisting of Index records from the AIR 79 record series at The National Archives, Kew.

Note: You must be signed in to FamilySearch to view the records. FamilySearch do not advise the exact records included, so it is possible that this is only a selection of records from AIR 79. 

https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2305506

(Images are available at FamilySearch Centres and FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries, in addition to images from the same series on Findmypast and fold3).

Maureen

[quemerford]

Which begs the question: what exactly might "Index records from the AIR 79" be?

[PRC]

9 minutes ago, quemerford said:

Which begs the question: what exactly might "Index records from the AIR 79" be?

If you mean what has been indexed for each record then here is a sample:-

 

Image courtesy familysearch. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6VRS-QX3P

I've never found a way with familysearch to get it to return all the records in a particular dataset, but as they have a partnership with FindMyPast, (amongst others). I suspect they may have imported the indexing lock, stock and barrel from there. Certainly it seems like the same errors seem to turn up on both.

Cheers,
Peter

[quemerford]

No idea: just wondered what that statement meant.