The Genealogist's Year 2011 CD desk calendar is a unique genealogy gift for any family historian. An ideal Christmas present to buy now.
The handy CD case desk format takes up only a small amount of desk space and means that the genealogy calendar is always close at hand when researching the family tree. Perfect for planning dates for trips to the record office!
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With November looming, Remembrance Sunday is a day we remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice. However do we also remember the 1,000’s of POW’s (prisoner of war) who were incarcerated in sometimes brutal and appaling conditions?
Researching your ancestry should include finding as much about our ancestors including war records. Today more and more resources are becoming available on the internet. Three great sites (and there are many) are featured below.
Stalag VIIIB/344 Lamsdorf
Lamsdorf was a very large German prisoner of war camp located in SW Poland. More than 100,000 prisoners from Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, France, Greece, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and the United States passed through this camp.
A famous prisoner from here was Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader.
http://lamsdorf.webs.com/
Stalag XVIIIA/Wolfsberg
Wolfsberg was located in Austria and this website is adding names to the roll call of prisoners who passed through. Currently this site has nearly 11,000 names and is being added to as information comes forward.
http://www.stalag18a.org.uk/
Far East Prisoners of War
Approximately 55,500 names of British POWs are on the database, taken from army, navy and air force records.
http://www.cofepowdb.org.uk/cdb2/Index.jsp
