“There’s a television series for Amazon in the works, from the producers of The Crown.”

P.S. Her latest is brilliant and almost painfully relevant.

New POW/MIA Records Added! – It’s a little strange to see these lists on Ancestry/Fold3 as they’ve been available online elsewhere for years, but perhaps it will help with awareness. This announcement features one of the tragic POW/Shinyo Maru cases, and I’m pleased to say that many of these men’s families have been found – sometimes including relatives in the Philippines. Would be wonderful if it’s possible to identify some of them.

Top Image Credit: Ian O’Byrne under Creative Commons license

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Scranton native killed in 1944 identified, will be buried Sept. 26 – Welcome home, Pfc. Willard Jenkins. Honored to have researched your family.

Here’s what’s new on Findmypast – Hey, genealogy peeps with any Catholic heritage, this is kind of a big deal – especially if you have Baltimore or NYC roots.

Nevada woman has new reason for hope on MIA/POW Day – Briana Erickson and I spoke for over an hour as part of her research for this article. Am delighted to be included.

Stop Everything, Check out this Forgotten Library For Sale – If I lived in Indiana, it would be hard to resist this!

Russian hackers no match for digital archivist – Tom Tryniski is even more amazing than we all thought.

Photo Credit: U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Michael O’Neal

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