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US Servicemen in North Devon, England 1943-1945
Search for over 5,000 US servicemen who were stationed in North Devon during the Second World War. The records consist of an original visitor book kept by the local servicemen’s club which recorded the servicemen’s names, date of signing, service number, location details, hometowns, and states. Images may also reveal additional notes and the servicemen’s signatures.
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/us-servicemen-in-north-devon-england-1943-1945
The book was photographed and transcribed by volunteers of Devon Family History Society to whom we offer our thanks for their hard & sometimes difficult work.

Over 76,000 new records have been added to the Find My Past collection of Devon Social & Institutional Records. Search this extraordinarily rich set of records to find paupers and vagrants, apprentices, peddlers and tradesmen. Find out if they got married, were vaccinated against smallpox or got Christmas presents while their father was fighting WW1. Explore more than two centuries of social history to find rare details of the lives of ordinary people. This collection of records has been gathered by the Devon Family History Society from a wide range of local records covering daily life in the 18th and 19th centuries. There are 132 separate sources mainly covering working life, but also containing a fascinating collection of criminal and poor law records, early local censuses, town lists, photographs and even admission registers for a home for "Friendless and Fallen Girls".

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/devon-social-and-institutional-records

This takes the total of this type of records to over 185,000

Are you a member of the Devon Family History Society? Have you visited the members' area of the website?
There are 25,882 high quality images of the Registers of 49 Parishes uploaded. Date wise these start at the earliest available registers, latest date available is 1915. For the time being this will be the ONLY online source of these images, wonderful value for a membership fee of only £15 in UK or £20 rest of the world:-

the parishes are:-

Abbotskerswell,
Arlington,
Aveton Gifford,
Axminster,
Bigbury,
Bow,
Bratton Fleming,
Challacombe,
Clayhidon,
Coffinswell,
Coleridge,
Combpyne,
Cullompton,
Culmstock,
Exeter St.Matthew,
Exeter St.Sidwell,
Hawkchurch,
Hemyock,
Holsworthy,
Ilsington,
Kennerleigh,
Kentisbury,
Kingskerswell,
Kingston,
Lapford,
Loddiswell,
Loxhore,
Malborough,
Mary Tavy,
Milton Damarel,
Modbury,
Morchard Bishop,
Nymet Rowland,
Peter Tavy,
Plymtree,
Ringmore,
Salcombe,
Shirwell,
South Huish,
Stockleigh English.
Stockleigh Pomeroy,
Stoke Rivers,
Torquay Torwood Holy Trinity,
Torquay St.Marks,
Torquay St.Matthias,
Washford Pyne,
Withycombe Raleigh,
Woodleigh,
Woolfardisworthy East.

Only a few days left for Devon FHS offer price on CDs- http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/shop/product_list.php?cat_id=5 …

A large proportion of the parish registers of Devon has today (30th May 2014) been made available on the Find My Past website (www.findmypast.co.uk).
Spanning 1538 to 1915, the collection comprises approximately 4 million fully searchable transcripts and scanned colour images of the handwritten parish registers held by the record offices in Barnstaple and Exeter.

more information is available on the Devon FHS  WWW Board, go to  www.devonfhs.org.uk and click on WWW board button  or click here to go straight there  http://members.boardhost.com/devonfhs/msg/1401442199.html