WWII POW records go online, fill in the story

For family history buffs interested in more than birthdates and death dates, ancestry.co.uk now lists the records of over 100,000 British POWs captured during World War II, allowing genealogists to learn where their ancestors were held and any escape attempts.

Were your relatives involved in a real-life "Great Escape"? You can find out at this site, thanks to lists compiled by German authorities under the 1929 Geneva Convention. You can also find out if a relative died while a POW and how they died.

This is just the latest in a multitude of online tools that help family history buffs piece together who their ancestor’s were and what they lived through.