Revised Research guides

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Essential Information

Location	National Maritime Museum

06 Jul 2009

We are pleased to announce that six of our most popular Research guides have been revised and are available on our website, see http://www.nmm.ac.uk/researchers/library/. Researched and written by the highly respected merchant naval historian and genealogist, Dr Christopher Watts, they have been updated to include new online resources such as those in DocumentsOnline at the National Archives and commercial websites. They also contain detailed information, including the NMM's records of the deaths of seamen (C9 & C10). The six guides are:

Research guide A3: Tracing family history from maritime records

Research guide C4: The Merchant Navy: Sources for enquiries

Research guide C5: The Merchant Navy: Sources for ship histories

Research guide C9: The Merchant Navy: World War One

Research guide C10: The Merchant Navy: World War Two

Research guide H5: Lloyd's: Registers held by the National Maritime Museum

We hope you find the new guides useful.

Eleanor (Head of Archive & Library)