Using 20th Century Military Service Personnel Records to Research Your Family History
To get started with your research please visit Golden Arrow Research: Research a Veteran Most of us have relatives who served in the military at some point in the past. For those of us wanting to pursue genealogical research, the military records created during our ancestors’ time in the service can provide a wealth of information. This includes not only documentation of the individual veteran’s military service but also a number...
Understanding Which Military Service Records are Open to the Public
Understanding the way that the government categorizes and maintains military records can be frustrating. To complicate matters, the rules are often changing as the National Archives attempt to walk the tight-rope of allowing public to access to military service records while simultaneously protecting the privacy of individual veterans. One question that I hear quite frequently is: How do you know which military service records...
