2014 Memorial Day Honor Roll Project Contributions

World War II Honor Roll, Concord, NH

The Honor Roll project collects transcriptions of the names of the veterans on military honor rolls seen in parks, schools, public buildings, books and other places all over the USA and abroad.  You can read the complete list at this link:

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/p/honor-roll-project.html

Or you can see them at this Pinterest board

http://www.pinterest.com/geneabloggers/military-honor-rolls/

Twice a year, for Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day, genealogy bloggers photograph and transcribe these honor rolls, and publish them on the internet.   The act of transcribing these names makes them available to be found by search engines such as Google, Mocavo and others.  Family members searching for genealogical or military information on relatives, ancestors or friends will be able to see the honor rolls, read the names, and learn about their family’s military history.

It is a simple, easy project.  However, it brings unexpected joy to searchers who did not know their ancestors were in the military, or did not know the specific military history, or sometimes they did not even know the town where their ancestors lived.  Seeing their family member’s name on an honor roll can be the beginning of finding more genealogy data, military records and historical information.

Eventually I would like to see this list of honor roll transcriptions on a new website.  Any volunteers for this project?

Here are this year’s contributions  (in no particular order):

Rodney Cemetery Cenotaph, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bgwiehle/can-usa/cemeteries/rodney-cenotaph.htm

Abington, Rockland and Whitman, Massachusetts at the Dyer Memorial Library Honor Roll, French and Indian War, Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War, Spanish American War, contributed by librarian Merlyn Liberty
http://www.dyerlibrary.org/honorroll.html

Willamette National Cemetery, Oregon, Korean War, contributed by Theresa Keough
http://keoughcorner.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-oregon-korean-war-veterans-memorial.html

Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Vietnam, contributed by Charlie Purvis
http://carolinafamilyroots.blogspot.com/2014/05/honor-roll-project-chesterfield-county.html

Lowell, Massachusetts ~ Civil War Soldiers and Sailors mustered out of Lowell, a transcription project by the Lowell Genealogy Club (thanks for the heads up from Barbara Poole)
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maglgc/lowell.civil.war.soldiers.htm

Pocahontas, Virginia, World War II, Vietnam and Korea, contributed by Paula Williams
http://cousinsintheshadows.blogspot.com/2014/05/memorial-day-honor-roll-project.html

Horry County, South Carolina, Vietnam Honor Roll, contributed by Cheri Hudson Passey
http://carolinagirlgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/05/honor-roll-project-horry-countysc.html 

Polk County, Nebraska, Vietnam Honor Roll, contributed by Beth Sparrow
http://geniebeth.blogspot.com/2014/05/polk-county-nebraska-veterans-honor-roll.html

Military Honor Roll, Mercer County, Ohio, contributed by Karen Miller Bennett
http://www.karenmillerbennett.com/mercer-county-ohio/military-honor-roll-mercer-county-ohio/

Person County, North Carolina, Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam, contributed by Judith Richards Shubert (she was VERY busy transcribing all these names!)
http://genealogytraces.blogspot.com/2014/05/for-honor-roll-project-at-nutfield.html  

Kittery, Maine, Civil War, contributed by Steve Dow
http://www.the27thmaine.com/blog/civil-war-monument-of-kittery-maine 

Wallingford, Connecticut, Civil War, contributed by John Tew
http://filiopietismprism.blogspot.com/2014/05/military-monday-heathers-honor-roll.html

Memorial Park, Frederick, Maryland, World War I contributed by Denise Coughlin
http://dencemeteryjourneys.blogspot.com/2014/05/military-week-2014-tuesday-memorial.html

Concord, New Hampshire, World War II, Korea and Vietnam, contributed by Heather Rojo
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/05/concord-new-hampshire-military-honor.html

Lime Creek Cemetery Civil War Memorial, Lime Creek, Lenawee County, Michigan, contributed by Carol A. Bowen Stevens
http://reflectionsfromthefence.blogspot.com/2014/05/remembering-lime-creek-cemetery.html

Center Moriches, Suffolk County (Long Island), New York, World War I and World War II, contributed by Jane E. Wilcox
http://www.4getmenotancestry.com/roll-of-honor-in-center-moriches-suffolk-county-long-island-new-york/

Shrewsbury, Massachusetts Civil War, contributed by Polly Kimmett
http://pk-pollyblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/just-few-civil-war-dead-from-shrewsbury.html
also see this link
http://pk-pollyblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/civil-war-memorial-town-common.html

Woodbridge, New Jersey, World War II, contributed by Judy Russell
http://legalgenealogist.com/blog/2014/05/26/our-honored-dead/

Oakridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois, Korean War Memorial contributed by Julie Cahill Tarr
http://genealogy.julietarr.com/blog/illinois-korean-war-memorial-oak-ridge-cemetery-springfield/

Bisbee, Arizona, World War II, contributed by Julie Cahill Tarr
http://genealogy.julietarr.com/blog/bisbee-arizona-wwii-memorial/


A supreme effort of transcription!
Brockton, Massachusetts, City Hall Honor Rolls of the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Firemen, Volunteers, and more, contributed by David McRae
http://genealogy-assistance.blogspot.com/2014/05/honor-roll-project-brockton-city-hall.html

Another wonderful blogger! Barbara Poole has 21 different blog posts with Honor Roll transcriptions.
Here are all her blog post links:

Westford, Massachusetts- Colonial Wars, 1812, Civil War, Spanish American War, World War I
http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2014/04/war-memorial-westford-massachusetts.html  

Westford, Massachusetts, Korea and Vietnam
http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2014/02/westford-massachusetts-memorial.html

Westford, Massachusetts, World War II
http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2014/02/westford-massachusetts-world-war-ii.html

Concord, Massachusetts, Civil War
http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2014/03/concord-massachusetts-civil-war-memorial.html  

Concord, Massachusetts, World War I
http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2014/02/concord-massachusetts-memorial-world.html

Watertown, Massachusetts, World War I and World War II
http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2014/02/watertown-massachusetts-war-memorial.html

Watertown, Massachusetts, World War II
http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2014/01/watertown-massachusetts-world-war-ii.html

Amherst, New Hampshire, World War I
http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2014/01/war-memorial-amherst-new-hampshire.html

Acton, Massachusetts, Spanish American War
http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2013/10/acton-massachusetts-men-in-spanish.html

Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, World War I and World War II
http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2013/09/shelburne-falls-ma-town-monuments-and.html

Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Revolutionary War
http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2013/01/chelmsford-ma-war-memorial.html

Chelmsford, Massachusetts, World War I
http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2013/05/world-war-i-monument-chelmsford-ma.html

Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Vietnam
http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2013/05/chelmsford-ma-vietnam-memorial-and-park.html

Rockport, Massachusetts, World War I and World War II
http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2012/12/rockport-massachusetts.html

Bedford, Massachusetts, World War I
http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2012/12/bedford-massachusetts-memorial.html

Simsbury, Connecticut, Revolutionary War
http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2012/12/revolutionary-war-memorial-simsbury.html  

Sunapee, New Hampshire, World War II
http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2011/11/memorial-at-lake-sunapee-new-hampshire.html  




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