Genealogy

New at NARA - World War II Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File - 9 million records The NARA website says: This series has records on about nine million men and women who enlisted during World War II in the United States Army, including Army Reserves and the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. NARA scanned War Department microfilmed punch cards on enlistments to support the reconstruction of the military personnel records at its National Personnel Record Center. Because of the microfilm's poor condition, approximately 1.5 million records could not be scanned. Also, the file has no records for Army officers, members of other services or enlistments for other time periods. In general, each record has the serial number of a soldier, person's name, state and county of residence, place of enlistment, date of enlistment, grade, branch, term of enlistment, place of birth, year of birth, race, education, civilian occupation, marital status, and component. These records present uniq...

Newly online - Papers of the War Office, 1784-1800 , about 55,000 records of the early US Republic. http://wardepartmentpapers.org/about.php Faces of the Fallen - collection of information about each US service member who died in Iraq: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/iraq/casualties/facesofthefallen.htm National Cemeteries Gravesite Locator : http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov The VA has put a Nationwide Gravesite Locator online, with all the burials in all National Cemeteries nationwide , with the exception of four cemeteries that have not completed their records: Long Island; Los Angeles; Ft. Rosecrans; and the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. Interment.net has Los Angeles National Cemetery online (85,825 records): http://interment.net/data/us/ca/losangeles/lanat/index.htm Fort Rosecrans (71,608 records): http://interment.net/data/us/ca/sandiego/rosecrans/index.htm National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (35,224 records): http://interment.net/data/us/hi/oahu/...