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Celebrities of the Army

We usually think of celebrity as a modern invention, but this collected biography of the great 19th century soldiers shows who were the figures of public interest at the height of Britain's imperial power.

The CD contains scanned images from a book written by Commander Chas N Robinson, RN, and includes biographies of 72 high-ranking and prominent soldiers in the armies of the British Empire. It includes well-known figures such as Baden-Powell and Kitchener, and others whose names are now forgotten. Each man has a single page of text and a single colour portrait.

This publication will be useful to anyone with an Interest in the British Army in the late 19th century. The scanning is high quality and the CD is easy to use. Available from S&N Genealogy Supplies.

Related Website: http://www.armylists.org.uk/

Possible Pitfalls in Using the Census Many people don't realise that the census page images we see are actually transcripts of the household census forms, the details were copied into the books by the enumerators.		Case Study - Sir Frank Whittle Sir Frank Whittle (1907 - 1996) was a Royal Air Force officer who invented the Jet engine. This is how his birth record was found.

Can gravestones tell you anything about your ancestry? Monumental Inscriptions (the writing on gravestones) can tell you alot about an ancestor, but you'll probably find more information in a burial register or death record.		Women allowed to enter the Medical Profession from 1876 In the 19th Century, a career as a physician was a highly respected following for a man. Yet it was considered outrageous for any woman to pursue a career in that profession.