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Your Local Military Museum - A Family History Treasury

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The subject of family history research is one that has shown increasing ever-increasing public interest over the last few years. Most researchers, whether professional or amateur are now very familiar with such major sources as The Family Records Office in London and the Public Records Office in Kew. There are also various major national and international web sites offering on-line details of births, deaths and marriage records, census records and a wide variety of other records from passenger lists for immigrant ships, lists of prisoners in particular prisons and any number of other valuable sources.

However there are numerous small local archives that also offer researchers a unique opportunity to supplement these bare facts with much more details about the lives of their forebears. Among these, there are few places more steeped in the history of local families that the small county museums of military history. It is a little known fact, but there are over 130 of these doted all over the British Isles, each representing some unique aspect of local military heritage. They often have archives full of unpublished private papers and diaries dating back to the origins of the British Army in the late seventeenth century plus photographs, some of which date back to the dawn of photography in the 1840's. The website of the Army Museums Ogilby Trust contains a directory of these which are open to the general public, although researchers are advised to telephone ahead to ensure that their visit will be fruitful. Although existing on relatively meagre funding some such museums have developed their own web sites and provide on-line databases for the internet researches.

One such in the Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum based in Gloucester which has a website offering on-line databases of over 40,000 soldiers who served with the Gloucestershire Regiment in the First World War as well as a second database of over 7,000 enlistment records from the late 1790's to the middle years of the 19th century. This latter is particularly revealing showing the high percentages of Welsh, Irish and Scots serving in what were essentially English Regiments. During their time, the Glosters and their antecedent regiments (28th and 61st Regiments of Foot) served all over the Empire in Africa, India, North America and in Australia. Many settled abroad and their descendants still look back to roots in the county of Gloucestershire. In addition to these personal databases, the Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum has digitized its collect including many thousand photographs and these are available as on-line resources.
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The website of the Army Museums Ogilby Trust is located at http://www.armymuseums.org.uk and there is further information about the Glosters at http://www.glosters.org.uk

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