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February 05, 2006Library of Congress' WWII Military Situation Maps
The Library of Congress has announced a new American Memory Collection release. "World War II Military Situation Maps, 1944-1945" is available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/maps/wwii/. The collection contains 416 printed maps and covers June 6, 1944 to July 26, 1945. The maps...
Continue reading "Library of Congress' WWII Military Situation Maps" » December 25, 2005VA Adds Names to Grave Site Locator
Government Computer News has noted that the Veterans Administration has added almost two million veterans' records to its grave locator -- mostly veterans buried in private cemeteries. That brings the number of names in the grave site locator up to...
January 11, 2005Variety of Civil War Maps Now Available Online
The Library of Congress has posted a large number of Civil War maps online. The collection is not complete -- eventually it'll contain selections from the over 2200 Civil War maps and over 70 atlases owned by the LOC --...
Continue reading "Variety of Civil War Maps Now Available Online" » December 28, 2004Library of Congress Releases World War I Rotogravures Collections
The Library of Congress has announced a new digital collection, "Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures." It's available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/rotogravures/ . Rotogravure, for those of you who missed that word in English class, is "An intaglio printing process in which...
Continue reading "Library of Congress Releases World War I Rotogravures Collections" » November 30, 2004Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
Holy cow. How did I miss THIS? How-da-heck-did-I-miss-this? "This" is the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, at http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ . It contains information on information on over six million soldiers and sailors from 44 states and territories who were involved...
November 16, 2004Database of Missouri Soldiers Enhanced
The state of Missouri has updated their database of state soldiers to include soldiers from the War of 1812 through World War I, which means that the new database includes over 550,000 Missourians. It's available at http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/soldiers/ . The site...
November 09, 2004World War I Records for British Soldiers w/ Service Medals Now Available
The National Archives of the United Kingdom has released a new Web site that contains information on over five million men and women of the British Army and Royal Flying Corps who won medals during World War I. It's available...
Continue reading "World War I Records for British Soldiers w/ Service Medals Now Available" » September 15, 2004Camp Ruston Information Now Available Online
Camp Ruston was one of the largest prisoner of war camps in the US during World War II. At its peak the camp held over 4,300 prisoners. Information about the camp is now available via the Louisiana Digital Library at...
Continue reading "Camp Ruston Information Now Available Online" » July 26, 2004Vivisimo Clusters 9/11 Report
Clustering meta-search engine Vivisimo has added a new special search: the 9/11 Commission report. Available at http://vivisimo.com/911, you can keyword search the report and get the first 200 matching paragraphs of your query divided into clusters, which you can then...
May 31, 2004UK Archives to Make WWII Awards Database Available
The BBC is reporting that a new database will "cover all those given awards for bravery in north west Europe between D-Day and the war's end." That's apparently about 12,000 people, though only 600 or so are available at the...
Continue reading "UK Archives to Make WWII Awards Database Available" » NARA Offers Records Information for WWII Soldiers
NARA, the National Archives and Records Administration, offers several databases related to WWII. There are two in which I think you'll be particularly interested. There's the "ARMY SERIAL NUMBER ELECTRONIC FILE: MERGED PROCESSED FILE ENLISTMENT CARD RECORDS," covering almost...
Continue reading "NARA Offers Records Information for WWII Soldiers" » WWII Government Pamphlets Available at U of Richmond Site
The University of Richmond (GO SPIDERS!) is offering for Memorial Day a collection of 60 digitized World War II pamphlets. They can be searched and browsed at http://oncampus.richmond.edu/is/library/digital/america_at_war/Gateway.html , while the university announcement is at http://oncampus.richmond.edu/news/press/may04/WWII.html . You may search...
Continue reading "WWII Government Pamphlets Available at U of Richmond Site" » April 06, 2004New Civil War Collection from Library of Congress
The Library of Congress has announced A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers. It's available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/tcrhtml/ . Tilton C. Reynolds was a member of the 105th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers,...
Continue reading "New Civil War Collection from Library of Congress" » March 16, 2004Valley Forge Muster Roll
(I'm getting all historical today.) Genealogists who had family in the American Revolution, you'll enjoy this. The Valley Forge Muster Roll (pick "Muster Roll" from the left side of http://valleyforgemusterroll.org/ ) contains information on those soldiers who served at the...
January 07, 2004Portal to Information About Military Conflicts
The War Times Portal is a subject index providing links about wars and conflicts. It's available at http://www.wtj.com/portal/ . Categories on the front page include Wars & Periods, Fighting Forces, and Museums & Battlefields. There are subcategories here too. Click...
Continue reading "Portal to Information About Military Conflicts" » September 30, 2003Archive of Canadian Newspapers During WWII Released
The Canadian War Museum has released Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War. The site features more than 144,000 articles from the Hamilton Spectator and is available at http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/newspapers/index.html . You may search the site by keyword...
Continue reading "Archive of Canadian Newspapers During WWII Released" » July 05, 2003Library of Congress Adds Stars and Stripes from WWI
The Library of Congress has announced the online collection of The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919. It's available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/. This collection contains the complete run of the newspaper -- that's 71 weeks....
Continue reading "Library of Congress Adds Stars and Stripes from WWI" » June 12, 2003Memories of World War I
The National Archives of Canada is now offering "War Diaries of the First World War" at http://www.archives.ca/02/020152_e.html, a digitized archive of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) units, who were required to keep a daily account of their "Actions in the...
June 11, 2003Pennsylvania Archives Add Civil War Card File
The Digital Archives of the state of Pennsylvania (http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp) have added a new item to their collection -- the Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, at http://tinyurl.com/e0ic. (Or use the digitalarchives link above. You'll find a link to the card...
Continue reading "Pennsylvania Archives Add Civil War Card File" » January 01, 2003Missouri's Union Provost Marshal Papers, 1861-1866, Indexed Online
So what did a provost marshal do during the Civil War? According to the State of Missouri's Web site, "These provost marshals were assigned regardless of the level of active warfare within a state or district. In districts with active...
Continue reading "Missouri's Union Provost Marshal Papers, 1861-1866, Indexed Online" » December 17, 2002WWII Radio Broadcasts in Flash-Based Exhibit
Voices of World War II, at http://www.umkc.edu/lib/spec-col/ww2/main.htm , contains more than 200 clips from the World War II era. The primary version of the exhibit is Flash-based but there is a text-based version available if you don't have Flash. I...
Continue reading "WWII Radio Broadcasts in Flash-Based Exhibit" » December 09, 2002ECU Unveils Online Pearl Harbor Document Collection
East Carolina University has unveiled an online collection of Pearl Harbor documents online at http://www.lib.ecu.edu/SpclColl/showcase/ . The site is divided into several sections, starting with War Begins and ending with Looking Back. Each section contains an introduction to the period,...
Continue reading "ECU Unveils Online Pearl Harbor Document Collection" » October 23, 2002Cuban Missile Crisis Documents From the Washington Post
The Washington Post has announced a special seven-day opportunity to view newspaper articles written between October 22 and October 29, 1962 -- the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. You can get to the newspaper sections at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/digitalarchive/index.html . Every...
Continue reading "Cuban Missile Crisis Documents From the Washington Post" » July 08, 2002US Naval History Sources in the US
The Naval Historical Center has updated their 1979 US Naval History Sources in the US with an online guide. The guide's available at http://www.history.navy.mil/sources/ . The front page of the site has a list of US states on the left....
December 27, 2000Civil War from a Soldier's Perspective
I'm always reluctant to cover sites that are not large data collections, but sometimes when they have unusual and interesting information I'm persuaded. Please check out the Civil War letters of the Christie family at http://www.mnhs.or g/library/Christie/intropage.html . This site,...
December 16, 1999Civil War Maps
The LOC has added another collection -- the Civil War Maps collection. There are approximately 2240 maps in this collection with 76 atlases and sketchbooks. The collection will be updated on a monthly basis. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/cwmhtml...
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