Contents

• Getting Started : Where to Start ; Background Research ; The Internet ; Commercial Data Providers ; Where the Records Are ; Undertaking Research ; Making Use of Your Research -- Basic Genealogical Resources : Birth, Marriage and Death Records ; Census Returns ; Wills ; Newspapers and Journals ; Private Papers ; Medals ; Naval Education -- Officers, 1660-1914 : Careers ; The Navy List ; Service Records ; Pay and Pensions ; Memorials ; Admiralty Digests and Indexes -- Ratings and Petty Officers, 1660--1914 : Badges and Uniforms ; The Records ; Men Entering Between 1667 and 1853 ; Men Entering Between 1853 and 1872 ; Men Entering Between 1873 and 1923 ; After 1923 ; Pensions ; Memorials ; Courts Martial ; Women at Sea -- The Navy After 1914 : First World War ; The Inter-war Period and Second World War ; After 1945 ; Royal Naval Air Services ; Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) -- Auxiliary Forces and the Coastguard : Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) ; Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) ; Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) ; Royal Navy Trawler Section (RNR(T)) ; Royal Navy Patrol Service ; Royal Naval Division (RND) ; Service records not yet transferred to TNA ; HM Coastguard -- Care of the sick and wounded : Researching naval surgeons ; Medical officer's journals ; Nurses ; Hospitals ; Lunatics -- The Royal Marines : Officers ; Other ranks ; Two World Wars -- Researching Ships : Resources ; Ephemera -- HM dockyards : The records -- Appendixes

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