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Tracing Your Naval Ancestors, by Bruno Pappalardo; 240 pg; Paperback; 7.5x9.75; ISBN: 978-1-903365-37-3; 2003; Item TNA15
“Tracing Your Naval Ancestors” is a new and comprehensive guide for British family and naval historians, archivists, librarians and medal collectors. This detailed guide explains the wide and diverse range of records and secondary sources which can be used to trace genealogical and career information in relation to the men and women who have served in the Royal Navy, and the naval reserve and auxiliary forces formed to assist it, from 1660 to modern times. With an easy to follow and accessible format, this up-to-date guide provides illustrations of key documents, lists of useful websites, publications and addresses which will help researchers identify key and overlooked sources vital to tracing naval ancestors.
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Table of Contents - Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Using the PRO
- Identifying and ordering documents
- HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION OF THE ROYAL NAVY
- History of the Royal Navy
- Origins of the Royal Navy
- The impact of the Glorious Revolution, 1688
- Developments in the Royal Navy 1689-1815
- Officers and ratings in the age of sail, 1689-1815
- From Victory to Dreadnought, the transition from sail to steam
- Organization of the Royal Navy
- Officers and ratings
- Commissioned officers
- Admiral of the fleet
- Admiral
- Commodore
- Captain
- Commander
- Master of the fleet
- Lieutenant commander
- Lieutenant
- Master’s mates, mates and sub-lieutenants
- Midshipmen and cadets
- Warrant officers
- Masters
- Physicians and surgeons
- Pursers
- Engineers
- Boatswains
- Gunners
- Carpenters
- Chaplains
- Schoolmasters and naval instructors
- Cooks
- Masters-at-arms
- Ratings
- Master’s mates
- Quartermasters
- Gunner’s mates and quarter gunners
- Captains of the top, waist, afterguard and forecastle
- Able seamen
- Ordinary seamen
- Landsmen
- Boys and volunteers
- OFFICERS
- The Navy List and New Navy List
- Printed and manuscript sources
- General biographical sources
- Published naval reference works
- Manuscript source
- Commissioned and warrant officers’ service records
- Officers’ service records 1660-1913
- Officers’ service records: First World War
- Officers’ service records since the First World War
- Surveys and analyses
- Certificates of service
- Passing certificates 1660-1902
- Training and examinations
- Pay, expenses, and allotment and remittance registers
- Full pay, 1795-1905
- Half pay 1667-1924
- Expenses (bill books)
- Allotment registers
- Allotment declarations on promotion
- Remittance registers
- Commission and warrant books 1695-1849
- Succession books and seniority lists
- Succession books
- Seniority lists
- Applications, appointments, and promotions
- Applications
- Appointments
- Candidates for promotion
- Promotions
- Promotion nominations
- Other documentary sources
- Addresses
- Summaries of confidential reports 1893-1943
- Foreign officers
- Leave books
- Letters
- Marriage certificates
- Oaths of allegiance and association
- Resignations
- Unfit for service
- Case study of a commissioned officer
- Printed sources
- Service records
- Surveys of officers’ service
- Other documentary sources
- RATINGS
- Types of rating
- Sources for ratings before 1853
- Ratings’ service records 1802-94 (ADM 29)
- Applications for admittance to Greenwich Hospital 1790-1865 (ADM73)
- Allotment registers 1795-1852
- Remittance ledgers and registers 1758-1851
- Merchant navy
- Miscellaneous sources for ratings before 1853
- Ratings’ service records from 1853
- Continuous service engagement books 1853-72 (ADM 139)
- Finding a rating’s service record 1853-72
- Details contained in the records
- Registers of seamen’s services 1873-92 (ADM 188)
- Registers of seamen’s services 1893-1923 (ADM 188)
- Ratings’ service records after 1928
- Case study of pre-1853 naval rating
- Which records to search?
- Searching the records
- FEATURES OF NAVAL SERVICES
- Ships’ pay books and musters, record and establishment books, ships’ ledgers, description books, and hospital musters
- Ships’ pay books and musters 1667-1878
- Record and establishment books 1857-73 (ADM 115)
- Ships’ ledgers 1872-84 (ADM 117)
- Description books
- Hospital musters 1740-1860 (ADM 102)
- Terms and abbreviations used in musters and pay and description books
- Operational records and ships’ photographs and histories
- Ships’ movements 1648-1914
- Ship and submarine movements 1915-39
- Ship and submarine movements: Second World War
- Logs and journals
- First and Second World War operational records
- First World War
- Second World War
- Reference works
- Station records
- Ships’ photographs 1854-1945 (ADM 176)
- Ships’ histories
- Construction, maintenance and related subjects
- Reference works
- Medical Records
- Medical officers’ journals 1785-1963 (ADM 101)
- First World War medical records
- Miscellaneous health and sickness returns
- Desertion
- Courts martial
- Indexes to court martial records
- Court martial records
- Black books of the Admiralty
- Prisoners of war
- Prisoners of war: sources before 1793
- Prisoners of war: sources for 1793-1815
- Prisoners of war: 1793-1913 (general sources)
- Prisoners of war: First World War
- Prisoners of war: First World War (general sources)
- Prisoners of war: Second World War
- Prisoners of war: Second World War (general sources)
- Medals and awards
- Naval General Service Medal and campaign medals 1793-1913
- First and Second World War campaign medal rolls
- Naval long-service and good-conduct medals
- Naval Good Shooting Medal
- Gallantry awards
- The London Gazette
- Albert Medal
- Conspicuous Gallantry Medal
- Conspicuous Service Cross and Distinguished Service Cross
- Distinguished Service Medal
- Distinguished Service Order
- George Cross
- George Medal
- Meritorious Service Medal
- Military Medal
- Victoria Cross
- Mentions in dispatches
- Gallantry awards: First and Second World Wars
- Foreign awards
- Miscellaneous documents concerning campaign and gallantry medals and mentions in dispatches
- Casualty and wound records
- Casualty and wound records up to 1913
- First World War casualties
- Second World War casualties
- Casualty and wound records in ADM 104
- Indexes (ADM 104/102-108) and reports (ADM 104/109-118) of deaths on ships of officers and ratings from causes other than enemy action, 1893-1950
- Registers of reports of ratings’ deaths by enemy action between 1900 and October 1941 (ADM 104/122-126)
- Registers of officers and ratings killed and wounded in actions between 1854-1929 (ADM 104/144-149)
- Pensions
- Officers’ pensions
- Ratings’ pensions
- Administration of pensions after 1835
- Searching pension records
- Applications to Greenwich Hospital for pensions or other relief
- Greenwich Hospital out-pension records
- Greenwich Hospital in-pension records
- Officers’ Admiralty superannuation, retirement and other pensions
- Officers’ widows and next of kin pensions and allowances and Charity for the Relief of Officers’ Widows records
- Ratings’ widows and next of kin: pensions and allowances
- Pensions for wounds and disability
- Chatham Chest records
- Pension payment records
- Compensation for wounds: lump-sum payment records
- Payment records indexes
- The Compassionate Fund and Compassionate List
- Victoria Cross and conspicuous bravery pensions
- Greenwich Hospital School and the Royal Naval Asylum
- Nomination, admission, entry and leaver records
- GENERAL GENEALOGICAL SOURCES
- Baptism, birth, marriage, burial and cemetery records
- Census returns
- Wills, administrations, effects papers and associated records
- Officers’, ratings’ and civilians’ effects papers
- Officers’ and civilians’ effects papers 1830-60 (ADM 45)
- Seamen’s effects papers in ADM 80 and ADM 304
- Seamen’s effects papers 1800-60 (ADM 40)
- Registers of seamen’s effects papers 1802-61 (ADM 141)
- Example of how to use the ADM 141 registers to find effects papers in ADM 44
- Warrant officers’ and seamen’s wills
- Warrant officers’ and seamen’s wills 1786-1882 (ADM 48)
- How to use the ADM 142 registers to find a will in ADM 48
- Registers of deceased ratings 1859-78 (ADM 154)
- Miscellaneous probate and power of attorney registers
- Miscellaneous records relating to wills
- Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) wills and administrations 1383-1858
- Wills and administrations after 1858
- Death Duty records
- RESERVE AND AUXILIARY FORCES SERVICE RECORDS
- Sea Fencibles
- Royal Naval Reserve
- RNR officers’ service records (ADM 240)
- RNR officers’ service records: First World War
- RNR officers’ service records 1860-1913 (BT 164)
- RNR officers’ service records 1914-58
- Royal Fleet Auxiliary
- Royal Naval Air Service and Fleet Air Arm
- RNAS officers’ registers of service: First World War
- RNAS ratings’ service records: First World War
- Fleet Air Arm ratings’ service records: 1924 onwards
- Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
- RNVR officers’ service records 1914-22
- RNVR ratings’ service records 1903-19
- Royal Naval Division
- RND officers’ service records
- RND ratings’ service records
- Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service
- Women’s Royal Naval Service
- WRNS officers’ personal records and registers of appointments: First World War
- WRNS ratings’ service records: First World War
- ADM 12 DIGESTS AND INDEXES 1793-1958
- The origin of ADM 12 indexes and digests
- Registration of correspondence
- The format of ADM 12 indexes and digests
- The index volumes
- The digest volumes
- How to use ADM 12 indexes and digests 1793-1912
- Finding the relevant index volume
- Interpreting columns and entries in ADM 12 indexes 1793-1912
- The development of cases
- How to use ADM 12 digests in indexes 1913-19
- How to convert a reference for 1915-19 from ADM 12 to ADM 137
- Identifying the relevant ADM 12 document
- Establishing the HS volume number
- Converting the HS volume number to an ADM 137 document reference
- ADM 12 indexes and digests 1920-58
- Abbreviations used in ADM 12
- Appendix 1: Finding aids
- Appendix 2: Useful addresses and websites
- Bibliography
- Index
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