Women's WW1 military collections and Queensland records on FindmyPast

Amongst the latest updates to FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk) are images for the Civil Service Evidence of Age collection, which has been available in index format for some time, as well as the following military collections (with National Archives references for the collections from which they have been sourced):

• Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps Service Records 1917-1920 (WO 398)
• British Women’s Royal Naval Service officer files 1917-1919 (ADM 318)
• British Women’s Royal Naval Service Ratings’ Service Registers 1918-1919 (ADM 336)
• British Women’s Royal Air Force Service Records 1918-1920 (AIR 80)

Also available for Australia are:

• Queensland Assisted Immigration 1848-1912
• Queensland Immigration registers 1922-1940
• Queensland Passport registers 1926-1939

Full details are available at http://blog.findmypast.com/2015/new-findmypast-friday-records-6

Chris

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TNA podcast - The civil service in the First World War

The latest podcast from the National Archives at Kew, England, is entitled The civil service in the First World War.

It's an hour long talk from the archive's family history specialist Audrey Collins, and can be listened to at http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/civil-service-first-world-war/ or downloaded for free from iTunes.

Well worth listening to, Audrey's always good value!

Chris

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