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THE SOCIETY OF GENEALOGISTS
The Society of Genealogists (SoG) is the UK’s largest family history society and runs the National Family History Centre. Its library in Clerkenwell contains everything a genealogist would expect to help them with their research, with free access to major commercial online genealogy sites and published reference materials.
The SoG holds an unrivalled collection of family histories and unique manuscript research notes and pedigrees. The reference collections relating to military history and soldier ancestors are excellent, with extensive runs of army lists, regimental histories, medal rolls, and biographies, as well as numerous family history and biographical research notes on military men.
The Society’s extensive education programme includes several talks and visits for anyone tracing their military ancestors.
Online, as part of the SoG’s website for members, is a database of information relating primarily to commissioned officers in the British Army and the pre-1947 Indian Army, which is particularly useful for locating articles on soldiers that have appeared in some of the journals we hold.
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To see this article as it appeared in issue 53 of Military History Monthly, click here.
Hello Dr Faulkner,
I’m a recent reader of your wonderful magazine and a history teacher at my school. I love all the different articles you write about, but I was most impressed with Kaveh Farrrokh’s article, entitled, “Soldiers of the Sassanian Empire.” I was especially impressed with the fact that he, among very few of your contributors, know that the correct way to write a date is to put the letters BC AFTER the date, e.g. 1200 BC, and more importantly, the letters AD, are meant to be placed IN FRONT of the numerals. e.g. AD 359, as your very eminent writer did, not the other way round (359 AD) as most of your other writers seem to do.
As a history teacher I am always impressing upon my students the importance of these small details and when I get them to read an article from your magazine these points do come up. I do hope your editors will correct these mistakes in your future articles, and my compliments to MR. Farrokh.
Mrs Emma Pippos