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Ancestry.com - War of 1812, Prisoner of War Records, 1812-1815 $

Original source: Index to Records Relating to War of 1812, Prisoners of War, 1812; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1747, 3 rolls); Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1780’s-1917, Record Group 94; National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Records Relating to War of 1812 Prisoners of War, 1812; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M2019, 1 roll); Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1780’s-1917; Record Group 94; National Archives, Washington, D.. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

AUSTRALIAN-POWS Mailing List

For anyone with a genealogical interest in Australian soldiers in prisoner-of-war (POW) camps. Archives: browse or search.

British Concentration Camps of the South African War 1900-1902

Online searchable database of the registers of the Boer population forced into the camps. It does not include Boer prisoners of war held by the British. Searchable by name, camp, farm or unique ID. Information includes cause of death, farm history, camp history of the individual, relationships to other persons in the camps and even tent number in the camp.

Japanese-American Internee File, 1942 - 1946

From the National Archives. Personal descriptive data about Japanese-Americans evacuated from the states of Washington, Oregon, and California to ten relocation centers operated by the War Relocation Authority during World War II. Each record represents an individual internee and includes the internee's name, relocation project and assembly center to which assigned, previous address, birthplace of parents, occupation of father, education, foreign residence & more.

My father was a prisoner of War

Tribute to Allen Godfrey Jones 1919-1959, A prisoner of war at Changi, Great World Camp, River Valley Road Camp, Fukuoka #1 and #17.

National Ex-Prisoner of War Association

United Kingdom.

The Ruhleben Story

Genealogical resource aid and project to try and identify the 4,000 British civilian prisoners interned at Ruhleben concentration camp near Berlin in World War One.

The U.S. National Archives & Records Administration - Access to Archival Databases (AAD)

Yahoo! Groups - scottish_war_prisoners · Scottish War Prisoners

A mailing list for those interested in tracing soldiers who were captured at the Battle of Dunbar (1650) or Battle of Worchester (1651) and sent to the American colonies.