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05-24-2007, 02:44 PM
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Lord Soth
 Join Date: July 25, 2002
Location: Melbourne FL
Age: 60
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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. Read more here...
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05-26-2007, 04:00 PM
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Ironworks Webmaster
Join Date: January 4, 2001
Location: Lakeland, Florida
Age: 52
Posts: 11,727
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That is so awesome! Thank you for posting this. I found my Dad's records. (Alexander K Huling) for the WWII files.
(Yeh, I was a late child-- I'm 34) 
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05-26-2007, 04:45 PM
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Drizzt Do'Urden
 Join Date: April 9, 2001
Location: Massachusetts
Age: 69
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Thanks for posting this, I found my father's records too. Seems he enlisted a month after his 18th birthday in 1943.
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