• The Library of Congress commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with "The Civil War in America," a free exhibition revealing the complexity of the war through those who experienced it firsthand. More than 200 items, many of which have never been seen by the public, are featured in the exhibition that will be open through June 1, 2013. A complete list of related programming and events is available here.

• Ancestry.com, in partnership with the US Department of Veterans Affairs and National Archives and Records Administration, has released two new online searchable collections, the US Headstone Applications, 1925-1963 and US Burial Registers, Military Posts and National Cemeteries, 1862-1960. 

• Familyrelatives.com has released three new military collections containing lists of more than 35,000 British and Dominion Officers who were killed or captured during the Great War:

British Officers Prisoners of War 1914-1918

Officers Who Died in the Great War 1914-1919 

The Bond of Sacrifice (a biographical record of British officers who fell in the Great War)   

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