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What´s in my Database?

When I do my research of the soldiers that you see on my site, you only see a small part of my data that I have collected. In my large database, where I keep all the facts that I find, I collect following data about my around 100 soldiers that I have in the database for the moment:

Soldier Number
Full Name
Unit – Brigade and Battalion
Date of birth
Verified birthplace – Place of birth in Sweden – Churchbook link
Date of decease
Age when they fell
Status of Personal Page on site
Google Earth positions – where they fell – where they are buried (Virtual Tour link)
Unit diary from the day when they fell
Link to cemetery/monument where they are buried or commemorated
Country where they fell
Region where they fell
Participation of any specific battle
My aim is to get as much data as I can about above mentioned subjects, still some data to find, depending on which Army they served for, and the amount of data there is to find from different archives.

Please feel free to look around in the different links in the menu, and please dont hesitate to ask any questions, or post any comments.

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Close but no cigar …

… The work with trying to find all the small pieces in every individial puzzle is not so easy as it look sometimes. You think you are close to some information just to close the gap for a moment, but then you cant find the last information you need to make the initial picture clear enough. Then it is time to try to ask the outer world for some tips, but that can also take some time.

One thing that is good with this work is that you learn a lot of how to find information, and you are also getting better and better to try other ways of finding data.

But the most interesting thing is that you are getting thoughts in your head that opens up other perspectives on things that you bring up in your research. This job will never end, it is so interesting, and will keep me busy for years and years to come.

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Updated soldiers list

The Soldiers list is now updated with more positions in the Google Earth Project. I will soon continue to develop the soldiers own personal pages. Please come back soon for more info.

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Updating Google Earth Project

During this week the google earth project is updated with some more locations of the soldiers in the project. There are still some more to put up there. After that the update of the personal pages will continue.

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Verify through church books

I have now almost found the date of birth of every soldier in my research, in the Swedish National Archive “Riksarkivet”. It is very fascinating to do this detective kind of work, to find their real names, and to get it verified that they were born in Sweden, which is one of my cornerstones in my research.

I have also now removed three of the names from my list, because I found out they were born in another country, but had Swedish parents though.

I still have my around 100 names to continue my work with, and I so long for the next opportunity to continue down to Belgium and France to document where they fell and where they are buried or commemorated.

Please feel free to follow my work here on my page, I will keep it updated with the latest facts along the way!