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Showing posts with label First World War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label First World War. Show all posts
Friday, 7 November 2025

Two new military collections from FindmyPast

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Two new collections from FindmyPast ( www.findmypast.co.uk ) this week: Faces of the Fallen 1914-1918 Explore this unique collection of phot...

TheGenealogist releases 1 million First World War casualty records

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From TheGenealogist ( www.thegenealogist.co.uk ):  TheGenealogist marks Remembrance Sunday with the release of over 1 million WWI Casualty R...
Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Free access to FindmyPast military records from 7-13 November

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From FindmyPast ( www.findmypast.co.uk ): To mark Remembrance and honour those who served, Findmypast is offering free access to millions of...
Monday, 3 November 2025

Special Scottish GENES Webinar for Remembrance Day: Trapped in Brussels in the First World War - A Civilian Story

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Pictured below is my grandfather Charles Paton, born in Brussels in 1905 to two Scottish parents from Blackford in Perthshire and Inverness....
Sunday, 18 August 2024

WW1 sunken ship HMS Hawke discovered off Aberdeenshire coast

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The remains of HMS Hawke, a Royal Naval cruiser sunk in the First World War, have been found in a good state of preservation 70 miles off th...
Thursday, 8 August 2024

TheGenealogist adds more First World War records

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From TheGenealogist ( www.thegenealogist.co.uk ) TheGenealogist Commemorates 110 Years Since the Start of WWI with the Release of First Worl...
Wednesday, 24 April 2024

Ancestry adds WW1 Red Cross volunteers and Derry memorial records

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Just added to Ancestry ( www.ancesty.co.uk ): United Kingdom, Red Cross Volunteers During WWI, 1914-1918 https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/c...
Sunday, 3 December 2023

FindmyPast adds two Canadian military collections

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FindmyPast ( www.findmypast.co.uk ) has released two Canadian First Wold War military collections, Canada, Military Honours and Awards Index...
Saturday, 23 September 2023

Ancestry adds Scottish WW1 Rolls of Honour

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The following have been added to Ancestry ( www.ancestry.co.uk ): Scotland, World War I Rolls of Honour, 1914-1918 https://www.ancestry.co.u...
Friday, 18 August 2023

Battle of Jutland Crew Lists Project

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An interesting site I was drawn to earlier in the week is the Battle of Jutland Crew Lists Project at https://battleofjutlandcrewlists.mirah...

Ancestry adds new searchable indexes for the Ulster Covenant and WW1 Royal Victoria Hospital register

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Ancestry ( www.ancestry.co.uk ) has added two new third party databases of records from PRONI.  The first deals with the Ulster Covenant of ...
Monday, 31 July 2023

Ancestry adds Aberdeen, Scotland, Roll of Honour, 1914-1918, 1939-1945

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Ancestry ( www.ancestry.co.uk ) has added a new military database: Aberdeen, Scotland, Roll of Honour, 1914-1918, 1939-1945 https://www.ance...
Thursday, 4 May 2023

Glasgow Police Memorial included in TheGenealogist's War Memorials update

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From TheGenealogist ( www.thegenealogist.co.uk ): TheGenealogist adds new War Memorial records TheGenealogist has added 56,924 new individua...
Friday, 28 April 2023

Sir Chris Hoy to open Scapa Flow Museum

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This is the formal announcement from Orkney Islands Council for something I briefly mentioned earlier this week (see here ) which is happeni...
Friday, 24 March 2023

TNA outlines Ancestry's Second World War UK military records digitisation plans

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The National Archives at Kew in England ( https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk ) has recently announced that Ancestry would be digitising ser...
Friday, 11 November 2022

TheGenealogist adds Ireland's memorial records 1914-1918

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From TheGenealogist ( www.thegenealogist.co.uk ): Memorial Records of the First World War As we prepare to remember our fallen heroes from t...
Saturday, 29 October 2022

Ancestry's partnership with Imperial War Museums

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From Ancestry ( www.ancestry.co.uk ): Telling untold personal stories from the World Wars     We’ve partnered with Imperial War Museums to h...
Tuesday, 1 February 2022

NLS adds co-ordinates searches to find WW1 military trenches

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The National Library of Scotland ( www.nls.uk ) has added a new way to search for military trenches in its British First World War Trench Ma...
Thursday, 11 November 2021

Tipperary Studies launches The Irish Great War Dead Archive

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Tipperary Studies has launched a new platform entitled The Irish Great War Dead Archive , at https://irelandsgreatwardead.ie . From the site...
Thursday, 17 June 2021

Glasgow's 1920 Absent Voters List now online

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From Glasgow City Archives via Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/GlasgowCityArchives ): New online resource for family historians! Followi...