Free military records
There’s some good news for all those genealogy buffs out there.
The folks at the National Archives and the genealogy Web site Ancestry.com announced today they are teaming up to digitize U.S. military records.
And for a limited time (until May 31), you can search for free those military records digitized so far at the Ancestry.com site. It’s part of the site’s commemoration of the upcoming Memorial Day holiday.
You still have to log in and pick a user name and password, but it took me less than a minute to find the World War I draft card of my step-grandfather in Rusk, Texas.
–Paul
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Comments
What about now that it is no longer free? How much do we pay to get this access to U.S. military records?
I’m trying to find the military record for my grandfather. His name was William Harvey Hensley, born 2/25/1888 in Morganton, GA, wounded in World War 1.
Please advise how I can obtain any information on him.
Thank you
Sue Smith
i am tring to find out what unit my dad was in duing world war II—his shoulder patch was a helmet with thompson machine gun through it any help would be great
This is very, very cool.