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    1. [ANGUS] WW1 Red Cross Records in Geneva
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    3. Today's Anglo-Celtic Connections has a fascinating video about a collection in the Red Cross Headquarters in Geneva.  The researcher had been told no one had asked to see this collection.  We can only hope it can be funded for digitization. http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.com/ An amazing story from the BBC about long-overlooked records of First World War soldiers; 20 million sets of details, carefully entered on card indexes, or written into ledgers, in the basement of the Red Cross headquarters in GENEVA. Researcher Peter Barton who uncovered them said that "To a military historian, this was like finding Tutankhamen's tomb and the terracotta warriors on the same day,"

    03/14/2009 04:42:23