Recently added Find My Past

[MaureenE]

I have recently received an email saying that “Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve medal roll, 1914-1920” data has now been added to Find My Past. This is a pay website, but you can search for free.

The Find My Past website says

“The National Archives holds the WW1 campaign medal rolls to 72,000 Petty Officers and Other Ranks of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in the series ADM/171/125 – ADM/171/129 (inclusive) and ADM/171/139.

Jack Marshall has transcribed the medal rolls for findmypast.co.uk and added additional service details for a large number of men.

The Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve medal roll available at findmypast.co.uk records the names of over 72,000 men and details which of the following medals each [man] was awarded:

*1914 Star

*Clasp to the 1914 Star

*1914-15 Star

*British War Medal

*Victory Medal ”

http://www.findmypas...lunteer-reserve

Cheers

Maureen

[MaureenE]

I have recently received an email saying that “Royal Naval Division Service Records 1914-1920” have been added to Find My Past . This is a pay website, but you can search for free.

The Find My Past website says:

The records cover more than 50,000 officers and ratings who joined the Royal Naval Division or who passed through Crystal Palace when it was used as an initial training centre during the First World War.

The Royal Naval Division was formed in August 1914 and included recruits from the following:

*Royal Naval Reserve

*Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

*Royal Fleet Reserve

*Royal Navy

*Royal Marines

*Army

The records do not cover officers who transferred to the Royal Naval Division from the Royal Marines.

The Royal Naval Division fought on land during WWI, seeing service at Antwerp in 1914, Gallipoli in 1915, Ancre in 1916 and Passchendaele in 1917.

The National Archives holds microfiche copies of the Royal Naval Division Records of Service in the series ADM339. The original record cards are held at the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Somerset.

http://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/military/royal-naval-division-service/indexes

Cheers

Maureen

[MaureenE]

New online newspapers on FInd My Past

FindMyPast (a pay site) has added new newspapers to its data base and now include some Irish newspapers, in addition to new British titles.

http://www.findmypast.co.uk/content/news/irishnews

If you don’t have access to FindMyPast, the same newspapers are also available on the British Newspaper Archive, also a pay site.

http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

The new newspapers which include WW1 dates are:

The Cork Examiner 1841-1926

The Sligo Champion 1836-1926

Gloucester Journal 1888-1889, 1905, 1907, 1918, 1920, 1950

Kent & Sussex Courier 1900, 1902, 1904-1905, 1913, 1915, 1918, 1923

Newcastle Journal 1872, 1882, 1898, 1916

Sunday Post, The 1915-1950

Cheers

Maureen

[alf mcm]

Findmypast has just put online the following records:-

British India Office Births & Baptisms 1712-1965

British India Office Marriages 1713-1969

British India Office Deaths & Burials 1709-1965

British India Office Wills & Probate 1774-1948

British India Office Army & Navy Pensions

East India Company & Civil Service Pensions 1762-1947

Many records cover the Great War period.

Regards,

Alf McM

[MaureenE]

FindMyPast has just released its digitised India Office Records from the British Library (nearly two years past the scheduled release date of February 2012) which can be accessed from the Main Page http://www.findmypast.co.uk

I intend to get a subscription, but haven't as yet. From the description, the new recorda are mainly Baptismal, Marriage and Burial records. There are some Army Pension records, but from the description these seem to be payment records with associated family history information.

There are also some wills.

In total probably not much of interest for this Forum, but occasionally you may find something of relevance if you are researching someone.

Cheers

Maureen

Edit I have just seen there has been another Forum post http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=205891&hl=

[Chris_Baker]

And very good too. We found confirmation of my wife's great-grandmother's death and burial in Rawalpindi in 1896.

[spof]

Edit I have just seen there has been another Forum post http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=205891&hl=

I have now merged these two threads.

Glen

[CGM]

Brilliant.

Just 3 days ago I wrote in an email:

"It's difficult with the children being born in India because we can't look at their birth registrations."

And now I have been able to look at them.

Brilliant !

[rolt968]

I have used these myself very successfully. The records gave me valuable information about a soldier who was born into the RA in India and served in the Canadian Army in WW1. The records enabled me to confirm connections which I could only suspect. I suspect that there will be quite a bit more to be found about men born in India who were the sons of serving soldiers.

Roger.

[MaureenE]

Regarding the India Office Records, there has been a FIBIS Blog released recently by the FIBIS webmaster called

""British in India records on findmypast – 11 tips for searching" which includes the tips which have been appearing recently on the FIBIS Facebook page.

‪http://www.fibis.org/archives/1131

The Blog also includes a very helpful link to a British Library page which sets out all the records which have been digitised

http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/britishinindia/index.html

There have been more classes of records digitised than I originally thought. However, some of the classification of records is unexpected - Cadet Papers are not in the military records category but are classified under births. If you are looking for a particular class of records you can enter a keyword, but not apparently the British Library catalogue reference.

Due to privacy reasons, there is only limited information and no digital record for births from 1915 (and marriages from 1930)

Cheers

Maureen