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Fold3.com offers free access to military records

in honor of Veterans’ Day, Fold3.com will provide Free Access to its entire collection of WWI and WWII military records today and tomorrow. Explore 350+ million records that capture the service and sacrifice of the veterans in your family. Access to the records in the

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Websites to help research your veteran ancestors

In honor of Veterans’ Day, here are some websites that may help you with genealogy research for ancestors who served in the military. https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/soldiers-and-sailors-database.htm – Database of Civil War soldiers and sailors www.thewall-usa.com/index.asp#search – Listing of those killed in Vietnam who are included on the

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Records of Bath veterans’ home available online

The genealogy database Fold3.com recently added records for the Bath National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. This collection has indexes and registers for Bath as well as a death index for the years 1879-1903. This was a home, funded by Congress, for soldiers and sailors

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New York man researches Long Island Civil War veterans

Huntingon (Suffolk County) resident Robert Farrell was recently featured in a “Newsday” cover story – “Civil War Roll Call” –  for his work on researching New York Civil War soliders and sailors. Farrell has spent 20 years trying to locate every Civil War solider and

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