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The following news release is from the PRWEB UK: Forces War Records holds the most extensive database of British Armed Forces who either died in battle or are still alive today. New records are added on a daily basis – Continue reading Forces War Records Now Stores Over 4 Million British Armed Forces Military Records
PROVO, UT- (Marketwire – May 24, 2012) – Ancestry.com (NASDAQ: ACOM), the world’s largest online family history resource, today announced that more than 27 million new records and images detailing U.S. Marine Corps activities during World War II and the Continue reading 27 Million New Records & Images of U.S. Marine Corps Activities During WW II & Korean War Now Available on Ancestry.com
The following news release was received from Matthew Deighton at Ancestry.com: In Honor of National Nurses Week, Online Family History Leader Adds More Than 300,000 Cadet Nursing Corp Files to Its Military Collection PROVO, UTAH – (May 7, 2012) – Continue reading WWII Cadet Nursing Corps Memorialized as Ancestry.com Publishes Collection of Records Online
The following news release was received from Fold3: War is waged primarily in battle, yet made possible by operations beyond the battlefield as revealed in the WWII European Theater Army Records, a collection of administrative documents compiled by the U.S. Continue reading WWII European Theater Army Records, 1941-1946 Now at Fold3
Several weeks ago, my friend, Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak, sent me a copy of her new book. It’s titled “Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing.” I finally got the chance to sit down and read it cover to cover. Megan knows Continue reading A Review of “Hey, America, Your Roots are Showing“
In 2008, WWII highly decorated First Lt. George Balthazor died alone, an “unclaimed indigent” in San Diego, CA. Through the research efforts of a nephew and records found on the Social Security Death Index, Balthazor’s story is told and a Continue reading Research Perseverance Leads to WWII Hero Getting a Proper Military Memorial Service
Air Force Records: A Guide for Family Historians, Second Edition is part of a series of books covering military records available at the British National Archives. From the Boer War, through two World Wars, Korea, Kenya, Suez, and other interwar Continue reading Air Force Records: A Guide for Family Historians
And the controversy continues… The following is from an extensive article written by Howard Berkes, and posted at the kuhg Houston Public Radio website. He wasn’t Jewish and he wasn’t a victim of the Holocaust, but the discovery of Jan Continue reading LDS Posthumous Baptism Controversy Includes Polish Catholic Witness To Holocaust
The following excerpt is from an article posted at rafu.com: In remembrance of the 70th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, which placed more than 120,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps, Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family Continue reading Ancestry.com Offers FREE Access to its Japanese Internment Camp Record Collections Until Midnight ET Feb. 23, 2012
The Bowerman family of Ohio will represent the families of 18,096 MIA Americans lost in the Pacific during WWII on this week’s Dan Rather Reports. Dan Rather Remembers: Pearl Harbor will air this Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 8PM ET Continue reading Family History and Those Missing in Action
The following news release was received from Heather Erickson at Ancestry.com: Information on Holocaust survivors and victims of Nazi persecution available online at no cost through efforts of World Memory Project. WASHINGTON, D.C./PROVO, Utah, November 2, 2011 – The United Continue reading Ancestry.com and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Release First Searchable Online Records Collections From World Memory Project
The formal dedication of the new National Personnel Records Center took place this last Saturday, October 15, 2011. To celebrate the dedication, the Archives made up three videos that take us behind the scenes. These National Archives’ produced videos are Continue reading National Archives Dedicates the New National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis & Makes 3 New Videos Available
The following news release was written by FamilySearch.org staff: 21 September 2011: Among the 16 million records added to FamilySearch.org this week, over six million are from the United States, including new collections from California, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, New York, Continue reading FamilySearch Adds 16M New Records, including those for Brazil, Canada, Cote d’Ivoire, Czech Republic, Ecuador, and the U.S.A.
Made available through an affiliation with Footnote.com, FamilySearch.org recently added millions of Confederate and Union Service Records for soldiers of the American Civil War. The newly added database contains millions of indexed, thus searchable, images. The records include the jacketed Continue reading Millions of Civil War Service Records Added to FamilySearch
Footnote.com has long been one of my favorite websites. I’ve had a personal subscription for years, and plan to keep it for a long time. The site is reasonably priced, and the data is etrememely valuable for any genealogist with Continue reading Footnote.com Announces New Focus on Historical U.S. Military Records & Changes Name to Fold3