Ancestry.com puts 90 million war records online

[one...two...tree 2,762]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070524/ap_on_...ogy_war_records

By DONNA BORAK, AP Business Writer

WASHINGTON - For every generation in this country there has been a war. And with wars come millions of records that can shed light on family history, detailing everything from the color of soldiers' eyes to what their neighbors may have said about them.

On Thursday, Ancestry.com unveils more than 90 million U.S. war records from the first English settlement at Jamestown in 1607 through the Vietnam War's end in 1975. The site also has the names of 3.5 million U.S. soldiers killed in action, including 2,000 who died in

Iraq.

"The history of our families is intertwined with the history of our country," Tim Sullivan, chief executive of Ancestry.com, said in a telephone interview. "Almost every family has a family member or a loved one that has served their country in the military."

The records, which can be accessed free until the anniversary of D-Day on June 6, came from the National Archives and Records Administration and include 37 million images, draft registration cards from both world wars, military yearbooks, prisoner-of-war records from four wars, unit rosters from the Marine Corps from 1893 through 1958, and Civil War pension records, among others.

[Tinker 0]

Do they have online searches?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Do they have online searches?

Yes, and it's free for now....

http://ancestry.com/

Start your family tree. We'll start searching.

It's FREE. Enter a few simple facts about recent generations of your family. We'll use what you enter to try and find more about your family in the world's largest online collection of historical records and family trees.

[Tinker 0]

thank you

[homesick_american 1]

Apparently my mother's father was in this branch:

Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA

And my father's father was in this one:

Air Corps

I have no idea what the first branch thingy is, and it doesn't say a whole helluva lot that I didn't already know, i.e. that they both enlisted in 1942.

[archie07 0]

Do they have online searches?

Yes, and it's free for now....

http://ancestry.com/

Start your family tree. We'll start searching.

It's FREE. Enter a few simple facts about recent generations of your family. We'll use what you enter to try and find more about your family in the world's largest online collection of historical records and family trees.

Thanks Steve, my grandparents came here from denmark thru ellis island LEGALLY

[dalegg 143]

Thanks for this Steve.

This took the better part of my weekend only to find out that both my parents entire line seems to have been in America since the beginning. We are simply almost purely English, and completely from the South. May have even owned slaves, almost certainly fought with the Confederates.

For some reason there is absolutely no record of my Grandmother on my father's side- Anywhere. Don't know who she was and nobody else does either as my Father and Uncle and Grandfather are all dead.

[Nessa 23]

neat