British Red Cross Posts Database of Over 28,000 Artifacts

The following teaser is from the Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine website.

The British Red Cross’ has launched a new online database, allowing the public to explore its collection of historic artifacts.

The British Red Cross Museum and Archives has about 56,000 items, one of the largest Red Cross collections in the world. It has now published an online database of 28,752 items.

These include approximately 11,000 museum objects and catalogued archive items such as letters, posters, photographs and films…

It published a database of First World War Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs) some time ago. Click on this link to search that database. Note that the link in the article itself is out-of-date.

Thanks to ResearchBuzz for the heads-up.

About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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