[Genealib] WWII Ration Book Registry Approaching 5,000 Books

[Illya D'Addezio]

This week I added another 1,198 images to the Registry of War Ration Books,
including 83 Canadian books. For those of you not familiar with food
rationing, during World War Two the government issued ration stamps in books
to each family member. There were four series of books, and there was a
complicated maze of instructions (typically published in the newspaper) as
to which stamps were valid at any given time.

Prior to this project at Genealogy Today, the largest known private
collection of ration books was a 900-book collection housed in Colorado. The
registry I created is rapidly approaching 5,000 books, and is expected to
double again in 2008. In addition to the books I am collecting,
contributions from visitors to the web site are helping expand the database
and ensure these interesting genealogical documents get properly archived.

To view the images, visit this page and search for surnames: 

Index of War Ration Books
http://genealogytoday.com/guide/war-ration-books.html

The database is updated regularly and now contains over 4,900 listings. I
hope this resource will be of some value to your patrons.

Thanks,
- illya


Illya D'Addezio
editor at genealogytoday.com

Genealogy Today
http://www.genealogytoday.com/