Australian & New Zealand Military Records FREE on Ancestry
25 April. Anzac Day. A sacred day on the Australasian calendar. A day of commemoration and remembrance of those who took part in war. Those who returned, and those who didn’t.
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Tag: New Zealand military history
FREE Access to 70 Million Military Records for Remembrance Day
Findmypast are making their entire collection of more than 70 million world military records free for four days to coincide with Remembrance Day 2016.
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Worldwide Honour Roll Project
Back in 2013 Heather Rojo, of the Nutfield Genealogy blog fame, started her Honor Roll Project. To...
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Ancestry’s WW1 Military Records are FREE until Remembrance Day
Take advantage of Ancestry’s offer of searching all of their WW1 records for FREE up until Remembrance Day, 11 November 2015.
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“Discovering Anzacs” Website Launched
Australia’s Governor-General, Sir Peter Cosgrove launched the “Discovering Anzacs” website yesterday. This new website is a joint collaboration between the National Archives of Australia and Archives NZ, and lists over 600,000 men and women who were involved in the Boer War and WW1.
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World War 1 Centenary Projects #3
World War 1 Centenary Projects are well underway, with more being started all the time. The aim with this (and my earlier) World War 1 Centenary Projects posts is to list a few of them, so others know what is going on.
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Ancestry’s New Zealand’s Records FREE Until Monday 19th May
If you have New Zealand ancestors, cancel any plans that you had this weekend as you’re in for a weekend-long genealogy-fest. You can thank Ancestry.com.au for that, as they are offering FREE ACCESS to their entire New Zeleand collection from 16-19 May.
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Explore New Records from New Zealand on findmypast
Findmypast, one of the big names in the genealogy field, are part-way through their 100 in 100 project (100 new data sets in 100 days). And as part of that they have just released a whole bunch of New Zealand records.
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World War 1 Centenary Projects #2
After putting the call out for information on World War 1 Projects that people were doing, I posted the World War 1 Centenary Projects #1 post. But there were simply too many projects to include in a single post, so here is list #2.
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ANZAC Day Blog Challenge is Back for 2014!
This is the fourth year that Auckland Libraries and the Kintalk blog have issued the Trans-Tasman ANZAC Day Blog Challenge. So do you have a story to share about an ANZAC? Stories they’d like to hear about could be about their sacrifice, or the way it shaped or impacted on their family history. Or maybe you want to blog from the perspective of those that were left behind?
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World War 1 Centenary Projects #1
There’s no doubt that 2014 is the year military historians have been working towards for years as it marks the 100 year anniversary of the start of World War 1. The Great War. The “war to end all wars”. As you can imagine there are literally thousands of World War 1 projects going on right around the world. Some big, some small. All important in recording history. And it’s going to be hard keep up with them all, but through a series of “World War 1 Projects” posts I shall share at least some of them with you.
Read MoreThe ANZAC Day Blog Challenge is on Again
With the beginning on April only a day away, it also means that ANZAC Day is coming soon. This is the day that is a national day of remembrance for Australian and New Zealanders who died during armed conflict. Seonaid from the...
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