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From: "Sandra Ferguson" <>
Subject: Veterans info
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 09:26:06 -0500


In honor of all our veterans, on their day...
(rootsweb has a couple of primers for those interested in military family research;
Military Records (worldwide) http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/lesson13.htm
and Lesson 14 -- U. S. Military Records
http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/lesson14.htm .]


All of the services have outstanding home pages. The URLs are:

U.S. AIR FORCE -- http://www.af.mil/
U.S. ARMY -- http://www.army.mil/
U.S. COAST GUARD -- http://www.uscg.mil/uscg.shtm
U.S. NAVY (includes MARINE CORPS pages) -- http://www.navy.mil/
VIETNAM VETERANS Home Page -- http://www.vietvet.org/index.htm

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES in Washington, D.C.
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/genealogy/index.html/
has an easy online option for ordering NATF Form 80 to request
a search in pre-WWI military service and pension records. These
forms are free and you can order several at time.

The National Archives, 8th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.,
Washington, DC 20408, has other military-related records that
may be of interest to family historians. They include:

-- Application for Headstones (1879-1903). Arranged on cards,
alphabetically by soldier's surname. Most applications are
arranged by place of burial and then by cemetery. Soldiers
buried in foreign countries are arranged alphabetically by name.

-- The Cemetery Service, National Cemetery System, Veterans
Administration, 810 Vermont Avenue N.W., Washington, DC 20422
has records from 1861 to present. Its records identify almost
all soldiers buried in national cemeteries and other cemeteries
under federal jurisdiction. These records are arranged on cards
alphabetically by name of soldier.


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