1901 Census Online Historical Newspapers Have you ever wished you could find links to all the online historical newspapers in one place? A place where they were listed by county and city so you could find the newspapers your ancestors read? This is the purpose of the Online Historical Newspapers Website. There's a lot of work that needs to be done to this site, and with all the digitized newspapers becoming available, it's likely this project will be a continuous work-in-progress! My goal is to first list all I can find for the United States and then go on to add newspapers for other countries. These links include both free sites and subscription database websites. Expand your research by checking out the Online Historical Directories Website here. Report errors and broken links or send suggestions for new listings here.
www.medal.net www.medal.net War dead: First and Second World Wars This is an introductory guide to records of deaths of British and Commonwealth servicemen and women and also, to a lesser extent, civilians who died in the First and Second World Wars. This guide will help you to find out if the information you are looking for exists and, if it does, whether it is held at The National Archives or in other archives. What do I need to know before I start? Try to find out:the name of the person the approximate date of death the branch of the armed forces and the unit, if applicable What records can I see online? Army Roll of Honour (1939-1945)Search the Army Roll of Honour for details of British Army casualties in the Second World War (WO 304) on findmypast (£). Indexes to deaths in the armed forces (1796-2005)Search indexes to registers of deaths in the armed forces on findmypast (£). Death certificates are not held at The National Archives.
Merchant seamen: registers of service 1835-1857 2. Essential information 2.1 How do I access these records? All of the merchant seamen service records from 1835 to 1857 are available to view online at findmypast.co.uk. 2.2 What are merchant seamen service records from 1835 to 1857? Merchant seamen service records are made up of four different registers which cover different date ranges. Register of Seamen Series I in series BT 120 (1835-1836) Register of Seamen Series II, in series BT 112 (with its associate name index in BT 119) (1835-1844) Register of Seamen's Tickets, BT 113 (the surname index is in BT 114) (1845-1854) Register of Seamen Series III, in series BT 116 (1853-1857) You may find more than one service record for a merchant seaman if he served for a number of years. 2.3 Records of merchant seamen before 1835 Before 1835 central government took little interest in the activities of individual seafarers. Those searching for further details of seamen, before 1835, must look elsewhere either in: 3. 3.2 What do the records look like?
World War I Document Archive Merchant shipping: crew lists and agreements 1747-1860 1. Early musters No systematic records of the crew of merchant ships was kept until 1747. Until that date, the researcher must rely upon the chance survival of material amongst records kept for other purposes, especially State Papers and those of the Colonial Office, the Treasury, High Court of Admiralty and High Court of Delegates. Most of these records are not indexed in a way which will assist a search for a specific ship or seaman. Details of available sources are described in My Ancestor Was a Merchant Seaman by Christopher T and Michael J Watts (Society of Genealogists, second edition with addendum, 2004) and Records of Merchant Shipping and Seamen by K Smith, CT and MJ Watts. 2. From 1747, masters or owners of merchant ships were required to keep and file a Muster Roll giving details of the number of crewmen and the ship's voyages. There is no index to the ships' or crew's names' and they are arranged by year and port of filing. 3. 4. 5. 6.