The latest newsletter of the Maine Genealogical Society included the following:
...major new international research project entitled "Civil War Bluejackets" which is examining the common sailor of the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War. The project team is made up of historians and information scientists from the Universities of Northumbria, Sheffield and Koblenz-Landau, working in partnership with organizations such as the U.S.Naval Academy Museum among others.
At the heart of the project is the transcription of all the surviving U.S. Navy Muster Sheets from the Civil War in order to create a freely available database for utilization by historians and genealogists. We also aim to link this database (and the men in it)to other Civil War naval records relating to the individuals we uncover.
Contact is Damian Shiels, PhD. Post Doctoral Research Assistant at Northumbria University ([email protected])
Website is: https://civilwarbluejackets.com/
If anyone is interested, please PM--I'd be delighted to share the original posting.
...major new international research project entitled "Civil War Bluejackets" which is examining the common sailor of the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War. The project team is made up of historians and information scientists from the Universities of Northumbria, Sheffield and Koblenz-Landau, working in partnership with organizations such as the U.S.Naval Academy Museum among others.
At the heart of the project is the transcription of all the surviving U.S. Navy Muster Sheets from the Civil War in order to create a freely available database for utilization by historians and genealogists. We also aim to link this database (and the men in it)to other Civil War naval records relating to the individuals we uncover.
Contact is Damian Shiels, PhD. Post Doctoral Research Assistant at Northumbria University ([email protected])
Website is: https://civilwarbluejackets.com/
If anyone is interested, please PM--I'd be delighted to share the original posting.
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