Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics ~~ An online database for researching birth, marriage, and death certificates you can view online and order. http://www.novascotiagenealogy.com Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"
FoundDogTags.com, http://www.founddogtags.com/. This site has been created for the purpose of returning dog tags found from Vietnam to their respective families. Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"
Give this site a try, the oiriginal I sent was a 2-line URL Just used this Site and it worked OK www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=6660418&nav=S6aK Sallie, I can't get the story to open. Would love to read about this. Could not get Into www.wdbj7.com/global either. Thanks Diane Sally Rolls Pavia <sallypavia2001@yahoo.com> wrote: Twenty thousand pages of burial records for Lynchburg's Old City Cemetery Soon will become available, thanks to Tony Gilreath. He creates digital Photographs of old archives and puts them on the Internet for genealogical Research. Tony has spent the past week recording more than 20,000 pages of Burial records from Diuguid's Funeral Home. You can read more about this new resource on the WBDJ web site at http://www Wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=6660418&nav=S6aK Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus" __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos To Unsubscribe email: Candyman-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Yahoogroups URL: http://www.yahoogroups.com/community/Candyman Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch format to Traditional Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe Visit Your Group SPONSORED LINKS Genealogy Family genealogy Family search Internet genealogy service Genealogy family tree Family tree genealogy Yahoo! Groups Moderator Central An online resource For moderators. Yoga Groups Find Enlightenment & exhange insights With other members
Give this site a try, the oiriginal I sent was a 2-line URL Just used this site and it worked OK www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=6660418&nav=S6aK Sallie, I can't get the story to open. Would love to read about this. Could not get into www.wdbj7.com/global either. Thanks Diane Sally Rolls Pavia <sallypavia2001@yahoo.com> wrote: Twenty thousand pages of burial records for Lynchburg's Old City Cemetery soon will become available, thanks to Tony Gilreath. He creates digital photographs of old archives and puts them on the Internet for genealogical research. Tony has spent the past week recording more than 20,000 pages of burial records from Diuguid's Funeral Home. You can read more about this new resource on the WBDJ web site at http://www wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=6660418&nav=S6aK Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"
Give this site a try, the oiriginal I sent was a 2-line URL Just used this site and it worked OK www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=6660418&nav=S6aK Sallie, I can't get the story to open. Would love to read about this. Could not get into www.wdbj7.com/global either. Thanks Diane Sally Rolls Pavia <sallypavia2001@yahoo.com> wrote: Twenty thousand pages of burial records for Lynchburg's Old City Cemetery soon will become available, thanks to Tony Gilreath. He creates digital photographs of old archives and puts them on the Internet for genealogical research. Tony has spent the past week recording more than 20,000 pages of burial records from Diuguid's Funeral Home. You can read more about this new resource on the WBDJ web site at http://www wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=6660418&nav=S6aK Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"
New Zealand Genealogy 1840s to 1980s ~~ These Genealogy pages cover Funeral Notices, Memorium, News Items, Obituaries, Shipping, Te Maori, the Smith Surname, Recent Deaths, Missing People, Cemetery Lists and Worldwide Industrial Weavers Lists. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~funeralnotices/Funeral.html Or http://shorl.com/brodrelagrunyse New Zealanders who did not embarked from New Zealand 1914-1918 ~~ A list of service people who died before they embarked from New Zealand so do not appear in the World War One Embarkation Rolls. http://shorl.com/ribygrymahyre South Canterbury, New Zealand Directories 1872/73 and 1878/79 ~~ The 1875-76 Wise's New Zealand Directory published by Henry Wise was the first national postal directory of householders. Lists people, generally head of household by postal district and sometimes mentions street name and an occupation. Included advertising and indexes. These large Wise's Directories do sometimes contain mistakes and many omissions and can be out of date by a year or two. Beware of surname spelling errors. Occasionally a postmaster Did not file the return for his area in time for inclusion in the directory. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nzlscant/directories.htm Names Indexed from the book St Barnabas Church and Early Auckland (New Zealand) Commemorates 100 years of St Barnabas Church, Mount Eden 1849-1949. www.rootsweb.com/~nzlauckl/archive/stbarnab.txt New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion Roll of Honour, France & Flanders 1916-1918 http://www.geocities.com/wlorac/m-france.htm Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"
Twenty thousand pages of burial records for Lynchburg's Old City Cemetery soon will become available, thanks to Tony Gilreath. He creates digital photographs of old archives and puts them on the Internet for genealogical research. Tony has spent the past week recording more than 20,000 pages of burial records from Diuguid's Funeral Home. You can read more about this new resource on the WBDJ web site at http://www wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=6660418&nav=S6aK Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"
GenDisasters Events that Touched Our Ancestors' Lives Not sure if this site has been listed but it's searchable by state. www.gendisasters.com Subittted by Brenda Parker . Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"
Tips from the Pros: School Records >From George G. Morgan Remember how your parents had to provide information about you, such as date and place of birth, as part of registering you for school? Many schools maintain their records indefinitely, usually in some records retention facility. Registration, grades, yearbooks, and all sorts of other information may still exist. If you can determine the location of the school that your ancestor or relative attended, and the county it is/was in, chances are that you may be able to obtain copies of school records. Also, don't overlook the colleges and universities your ancestor attended. Registrars' offices can be contacted for academic records and alumni associations may have subsequent addresses. Yearbooks are usually a permanent part of the institution's library so be sure to check them for details about your ancestors' extracurricular school activities. Don't forget to check with fraternities, sororities, and alumni offices. Be prepared, however, to provide proof of your relationship in order to gain access to or copies of some of the academic records. Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"
The following announcement was written by Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK) and FamilyLink.com: Volunteers from Around the World to Benefit from New Social Networking Site Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK) has recently partnered with FamilyLink.com, a new social networking site for genealogists. Provo, UT, June 14, 2007 -- Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK), a global volunteer organization in which volunteers perform various genealogy-related tasks for researchers who live far away, has recently Partnered with FamilyLink.com. "We are excited about this opportunity to join forces with FamilyLink.com as we continue to expand our resources in support of genealogists and their research," said Bridgett Schneider, Program Administrator, Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness. As part of the partnership, RAOGK will introduce more than 4,000 of its volunteers to FamilyLink.com, a new free, social genealogy network that is Operated by WorldVitalRecords.com. Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness is an incredible organization in which its members provide free services to genealogists, such as looking up a record from a courthouse or taking a picture of a tombstone. We are so excited to work with this group of volunteers and hope to expand their network, as well as their resources by introducing them to FamilyLink.com, Said Paul Allen, CEO. FamilyLink.com launched its beta site in April 2007 with the goal of helping other genealogists connect with one another throughout the world. Currently FamilyLink.com has nearly 5,000 members and is growing by nearly a thousand Members each week. As part of the FamilyLink.com service, individuals who sign up can indicate on their personal profile page if they are willing to do local or Internet record lookups. RAOGK will also have an area on the site where their members can communicate with each other, post announcements, invite others to join the organization, view photos, and more. RAOGK volunteers who sign up to FamilyLink.com will also be able to place a graphic on their personal profile page that will allow others to see that they are volunteers. RAOGK hopes to recruit additional volunteers and also help current FamilyLink.com members to connect with RAOGK members. RAOGK members are a perfect fit for FamilyLink, they are willing to do so much just for a thank you. They will be a great benefit to our members, said Jason McGowan, Product Manager, FamilyLink.com Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"
The Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) has created the first electronic listing of missing personnel from the Second World War. The records came from two historical sources: Rosters of Military Personnel Whose Remains Were Not Recovered, 1951-1954, and The World War II Rosters of the Dead (All Services). POWs and MIAs are listed as well as those buried at sea. Entries on this website were created by corroborating names and service numbers that appear in both sources. Use of the database is simple: go to the site's web page, and then look for the first letter of the person's last name. There you will find separate listing for Army, Army Air Forces, Navy, Marine Corps, and Others. The Others listings appear to all be civilians, including Merchant Marine. Service personnel who were buried at sea are listed in a separate section of the same web site. Again, this web site contains lists only for those persons whose bodies were not recovered and those who were buried at sea. You can access the "Service Personnel Not Recovered Following World War II" database at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/WWII_MIA/INDEX.HTM Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"
[A few more from Pam. Some of these might have sections that require a fee. Good to check out though. Sally] Do you have these web sites? www.history.com www.quaker.org www.publicrecq.blogspot.com/# www.countyhistory.com Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"
[Another great site from member Pam Drake, in Indiana, she finds some really good ones. Thanks Pam!! Sally] Check out this free site. www.WeRelate.org WeRelate is your Genealogy Community WeRelate is a free public-service wiki for genealogy sponsored by the Foundation for On-Line Genealogy, Inc. In partnership with the Allen County Public Library. We are the world's largest genealogy wiki with pages for over 350,000 people and growing. Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"
June 11, 2007, 8:55PM Researchers seek DNA link to Lost Colony The Associated Press ROANOKE ISLAND, N.C. Researchers believe they may be able to use DNA to help uncover the fate of the Lost Colony, which vanished a few years after more than 100 people settled on Roanoke Island in 1587. "The Lost Colony story is the biggest unsolved mystery in the history of America," said Roberta Estes, owner of DNA Explain, a private DNA analysis company based in Brighton, Mich. The company is working with the Lost Colony Center for Science and Research, An independent group based in Washington, N.C., that is trying to figure out What happened to the colony. It was established 20 years before Jamestown, America's first permanent English settlement. "I don't know what we'll find in the end," Estes told the Virginian-Pilot Newspaper. "Part of the big question for me is, did the Lost Colony survive? Who is their family today? And where did they go?" Fred Willard, director of the Lost Colony center, said some colonists may have moved inland to what are now East Lake, Chocowinity and Gum Neck. The researchers have used genealogy, deeds and historical narratives to compile 168 surnames that could be connected to settlers. Researchers plan to use cheek swabs taken from possible ancestors to test the paternal and maternal DNA lines. "In our case, with the Lost Colony, the only way we're going to trace who was who and if they survived is to use DNA," Estes said. While DNA will not make any immediate connections beyond living relatives, the samples can provide clues to an individual's country of origin and other shared family traits, Estes said. Genealogy will have to fill in the blanks. Researchers may also try to test American Indian remains or known relatives of the colonists in England. More than 100 people settled on Roanoke Island in 1587, but the colonists vanished sometime between August of that year and 1590, when their governor returned to the island from a trip to England. From the Houston Chroncile www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/science/4881089.html Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"
This is a grt. site, hope it hasn't been posted before. http://members.aol.com/bbbenge/front.html -- Proud member of IBSSG
The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster. In the fall of 1918 the Great War in Europe was winding down and peace was on the horizon. The Americans had joined in the fight, bringing the Allies closer to victory against the Germans. Deep within the trenches these men lived through some of the most brutal conditions of life, which it seemed could not be any worse. Then, in pockets across the globe, something erupted that seemed as benign as the common cold. The influenza of that season, however, was far more than a cold. In the two years that this scourge ravaged the earth, a fifth of the world's population was infected. The flu was most deadly for people ages 20 to 40. This pattern of morbidity was unusual for influenza which is usually a killer of the elderly and young children. It infected 28% of all Americans (Tice). An estimated 675,000 Americans died of influenza during the pandemic, ten times as many as in the world war. Of the U.S. Soldiers who died in Europe, half of them fell to the influenza virus and not to the enemy (Deseret News). An estimated 43,000 servicemen mobilized for WWI died of influenza (Crosby). 1918 would go down as unforgettable year of suffering and death and yet of peace. As noted in the Journal of the American Medical Association final edition of 1918: "The 1918 has gone: a year momentous as the termination of the most cruel war in the annals of the human race; a year which marked, the end at least for a time, of man's destruction of man; unfortunately a year in which developed a most fatal infectious disease causing the death of hundreds of thousands of human beings. Medical science for four and one-half years devoted itself to putting men on the firing line and keeping them there. Now it must turn with its whole might to combating the greatest enemy of all--infectious disease," (12/28/1918). To finish reading the article, go to: http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"
FamilySearch is announcing still more content providers that will be offering data through local FamilySearch Centers near you and through the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Note that all the providers listed below except for two have been announced previously in this newsletter and elsewhere. The new additions are: Heritage Quest/ProQuest and Kindred Konnections. The following announcement was written by FamilySearch (formerly Genealogical Society of Utah), a nonprofit organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Popular web sites available for free through local Family History Centers SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH-FamilySearch has announced the addition of more popular online genealogy services available for free through worldwide family history centers. The expanded services are in keeping with FamilySearch's goal to provide increased access to records that will assist individuals in family history pursuits. New resources include: Footnote (www.footnote.com) Footnote is a subscription-based website that features searchable, original documents that provide users a view of the events, places and people that shaped the American nation and the world. The site will have over 25 million digital images by the end of 2007. Footnote is currently working with FamilySearch to index the American Revolutionary War Pension files. Additional projects with FamilySearch are under development. Individuals with Footnote subscriptions will be able to sign in with the same Footnote username and password they use at home in order to save, annotate, and upload content. Godfrey Memorial Library (www.godfrey.org) Godfrey Memorial Library has an extensive collection of essential resources to assist genealogical and historical research. Resources include newspapers city and business directories, vital records, printed census records, state county, and local histories, as well as numerous family histories, family bible records, and service and pension records. Heritage Quest/ProQuest (www.heritagequestonline.com) Heritage Quest online includes the complete set of U.S. Federal Census images from 1790 to 1930 including names and indexes for many of the sets. Users will be able to find people and places located in over 20,000 published family and local histories and PERSI, an index of over 1.9 million genealogy and local history articles. Other online databases include Revolutionary War Pension, Bounty-Land Warrant Application files, and the Freedman Bank Records. Access to this service will be limited to 1,400 family history centers in North America. Patrons should contact their local family history center to see if this service is available. Family history center directors should contact Family History Center Support with questions. Kindred Konnections (www.kindredkonnections.com) Kindred Konnections has over 230 million pedigree linked names with submitter information. The online pedigrees are not merged, but maintained by individual patrons. There are additional databases of birth, marriage, death, and census records that are automatically searched along with the pedigree linked data. Segments of pedigrees can be downloaded. World Vital Records (www.worldvitalrecords.com) World Vital Records provides access to research helps and has a wide variety of international records, including more than 60 parish registers, Scottish death records, UK marriages, and Irish prisoner records. There are more than 300 newspapers with 100,000 pages added a month, and over 500 online databases, including vital, military, land, pension records, reference materials, family histories, maps, gazetteers, and international coops. With the recent Quintin Publications partnership, World Vital Records will soon have more than 10,000 databases online. At least one new database is added every business day. FamilySearch (formerly Genealogical Society of Utah) is a nonprofit organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. FamilySearch maintains the world's largest repository of genealogical resources accessed through www.FamilySearch.org, the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, and over 4,500 family history centers in 70 countries. Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"
Happy Memorial Day!!! Click on the following link. www.bluemountain.com/view.pd?i=168915221&m=2440&rr=y&source=bma999 Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"
1918 ~~ Third Battle of the Aisne begins In the early morning hours of May 27, 1918, the German army begins the Third Battle of the Aisne with an attack on Allied positions at the Chemin Des Dames ridge, in the Aisne River region of France. By mid-May 1918, General Erich Ludendorff, mastermind of the ambitious German offensiveknown as the Kaiserschlacht, or the kaisers battlelaunched that spring, was determined to reclaim Chemin Des Dames from the French with a forceful, concentrated surprise attack on the strategically crucial ridge. There had been two previous battles in the Aisne region, in 1914 and 1917, but both had been offensives by the Alliespredominately the Frenchagainst the Germans; the second was part of the failed Nivelle Offensive, named for Robert Nivelle, the French commander in chief who was summarily replaced in the wake of the offensives disastrous outcome. Nivelles successor, Phillipe Petain, was aware of the likelihood of a German attack at the Chemin Des Dames in 1918, but he failed to anticipate its strength and scale. In the early morning hours of May 27, 4,000 German guns opened fire on a 24-mile-long stretch of the Allied lines, beginning the Third Battle of the Aisne. The Germans advanced 12 miles deep through the French sector of the lines near Chemin Des Dames, demolishing four entire French divisions. Four more French and four British divisions fell between the towns of Soissons and Reims, as the Germans reached the Aisne in less than six hours. By the end of the day, Ludendorffs men had driven a wedge 40 miles wide and 15 miles deep through the Allied lines. Earlier that month, the political and military chiefs of France and Britain had invested supreme control over their joint military strategy on the Western Front to Ferdinand Foch, chief of the French general staff. Fochs control over the other commanders in chief proved relatively limited in this instance, however, as he was unable to force Britains Douglas Haig to transfer more than five British divisions to relieve French troops. The Germans were not as successful elsewhere on the Western Front, however, as an Allied force including some 4,000 Americans scored a major victory at Cantigny, on the Somme River, on May 28. Even as the German spring offensive continued in force, the Allied defense was stiffening, and as the summer of 1918 began, Petain, Foch and the rest of the Allied commanders began to shift their focus to counterattacks, knowing the outcome of World War I hung in the balance. 1940 ~~ British evacuation of Dunkirk turns savage as Germans commit atrocity On this day in 1940, units from Germany's SS Death's Head division battle British troops just 50 miles from the port at Dunkirk, in northern France, as Britain's Expeditionary Force continues to fight to evacuate France. After holding off an SS company until their ammo was spent, 99 Royal Norfolk Regiment soldiers retreated to a farmhouse in the village of Paradis just 50 miles from the Dunkirk port. Ships waited there to carry home the British Expeditionary Force, which had been fighting alongside the French in its defensive war against the German invaders. Agreeing to surrender, the trapped regiment started to file out of the farmhouse, waving a white flag tied to a bayonet. They were met by German machine-gun fire. They tried again and the British regiment was ordered by an English-speaking German officer to an open field where they were searched and divested of everything from gas masks to cigarettes. They were then marched into a pit where machine guns had been placed in fixed positions. The German order came: "Fire!" Those Brits who survived the machine-gun fire were either stabbed to death with bayonets or shot dead with pistols. Of the 99 members of the regiment, only two survived, both privates: Albert Pooley and William O'Callaghan. They lay among the dead until dark, then, in the middle of a rainstorm, they crawled to a farmhouse, where their wounds were tended. With nowhere else to go, they surrendered again to the Germans, who made them POWs. Pooley's leg was so badly wounded he was repatriated to England in April 1943 in exchange for some wounded German soldiers. Upon his return to Britain, his story was not believed. Only when O'Callaghan returned home and verified the story was a formal investigation made. Finally, after the war, a British military tribunal in Hamburg found the German officer who gave the "Fire" order, Captain Fritz Knochlein, guilty of a war crime. He was hanged. 1941 ~~ Bismarck sunk by Royal Navy On May 27, 1941, the British navy sinks the German battleship Bismarck In the North Atlantic near France. The German death toll was more than 2,000. On February 14, 1939, the 823-foot Bismarck was launched at Hamburg. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler hoped that the state-of-the-art battleship Would herald the rebirth of the German surface battle fleet. However, After the outbreak of war, Britain closely guarded ocean routes from Germany to the Atlantic Ocean, and only U-boats moved freely through the war zone. In May 1941, the order was given for the Bismarck to break out into the Atlantic. Once in the safety of the open ocean, the battleship would be almost impossible to track down, all the while wreaking havoc on Allied convoys to Britain. Learning of its movement, Britain sent almost the entire British Home Fleet in pursuit. On May 24, the British battle cruiser Hood and battleship Prince of Wales intercepted it near Iceland. In a ferocious battle, the Hood exploded and sank, and all but three of the 1,421 crewmen were killed. The Bismarck escaped, but because it was leaking fuel it fled for occupied France. On May 26, it was sighted and crippled by British aircraft, and on May 27 three British warships descended on the Bismarck and finished it off. Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"
Special for Memorial Day !!! [Lizzie did such a fantastic job. You can certainly understand why it's the hottest item on "youtube." My friend in Oregon sent this to me, she has a grandson in Iraq. ~~~ Sally ] Very emotional.... This is the hottest thing on youtube. It was done by a 15 year old girl, Lizzie Palmer. It has had 3,000,000 hits as of last Friday. If you missed it here is the link. A very special girl. http://www.youtube.com/v/ervaMPt4Ha0&autoplay=1 Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"