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The following teaser is from a story posted Nov 11, 2106 at the New York Times website. As nations honored their war veterans on Friday — Armistice Day and Veterans Day — a 19-year-old in California is trying to preserve Continue reading Honoring WWII Veterans
Over 2.8 million additional records were available to search at Findmypast this last week, including: United States Marriages Over 2.7 million additional records have been added to our collection of United States Marriages. The new additions come from 13 different Continue reading FindMyPast Adds Over 2.8 Million records this last week
The following teaser is from an article posted August 21, 2016 at theguardian.com: The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich is recognised as one of the most audacious operations of the second world war. But Ján Kubiš and Josef Gabcík, the two Continue reading Heroes’ Memorials Demanded for Czech Assassins of Holocaust Chief
The following teaser is from an interesting article posted August 1 , 2016 at http://alittlebitofstone.com: Stories of [British] conscientious objectors and how bakers, butchers and farmworkers fought conscription are amongst a rare collection of Military Appeal Tribunal records being published Continue reading Records of WWI British Conscientious Objectors Come to Light
The following press release is from Mark at War-Memorial.co.uk. War-Memorial.co.uk, the brand new website dedicated to Photographing, Transcribing and preserving war memorial records for the future, has just launched online providing a unique service that allows the researcher to find Continue reading War-Memorial.co.uk Launches Online
The following teaser is from an article posted on usatoday.com The Nazis aimed to erase the Jewish people. Now, 70 years later, contributors around the globe are etching victims’ names back into memory through an online memorial that’s just hit Continue reading Online database of Holocaust victims hits 1 million records
The following is from FamilySearch: You will find new marriage records from Kansas and Maryland this week along with England Devon Bishop’s Transcripts 1558-1887, England Lancashire Oldham Cemetery Registers 1797-2004, and United States World War II Prisoners of War 1941-1945. Continue reading New FamilySearch Database Collections Update for February 16 & 22, 2016
The following teaser is from the January 18, 2016 edition of belta.by: MINSK, 18 January (BelTA) – Austrian historian Hubert Steiner gave Belarus the copies of the deportation orders from the Austrian State Archives containing the names of the Austrian Continue reading Belarus Receives Copies of Deportation Orders of Austrian Jews Murdered in the Trostenets Concentration Camp
The following is from the San Jose Mercury News website: Over the next two years, San Jose State and 14 other campuses in the California State University system will be digitizing 10,000 documents into a searchable database called the CSU Continue reading Japanese Internment Camp Documents to be Digitized
The following is from the National Archives Press/Journalists webpage. November 2, 2015 Washington, DC… The National Archives today announced its partnership with the National Collection of Aerial Photography (NCAP) to digitize historic World War II aerial photography. For the first Continue reading The National Archives Announces Partnership to Digitize WWII Aerial Photography
National Public Radio has posted a database of American veterans who were secretly exposed to mustard agent during WWII. I tried out the search engine and immediately located two Canfields in the database. Click on over, read the full article, Continue reading National Public Radio Has Posted a Database of American Vets Secretly Exposed to Mustard Agent During WWII
With the release of the British 1939 Register at the FindMyPast website, we’re once again discussing WWII research. When I got involved in genealogy forty years ago, WWII was a rather recent occurrence and many of us just skipped right Continue reading The World War II Research and Writing Center Website
A Holocaust museum has opened in the Pacific Northwest. According to the website, it’s called The Henry and Sandra Friedman Holocaust Center for Humanity, and is located at 2045 2nd Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121. For those familiar with downtown Seattle, Continue reading The Holocaust Center for Humanity Opens in Seattle
The following is from FamilySearch: Major additions this week to the United States World War II Draft Registration Cards 1942, Brazil Sao Paulo Immigration Cards 1902-1980, Colombia Catholic Church Records 1576-2014, Italy Asti Civil Registration (State Archive) 1803-1814 1911-1935, Maryland Continue reading New FamilySearch Database Collections Update for October 5, 2015
The following excerpt is from an article posted at luerzersarchive.com: Google collects the biggest online archive of war letters in Russia. The project is fronted by a typographic illustration by Willem Rabe. A typographic illustration made up of characters from Continue reading Google Posts Largest Online Archive of WWII Russian War Letters