Genealogy Roundup, November 7
In this week's Roundup: Veterans Day film coming up on HBO; the remains of a soldier lost in WWII accounted for and returned home for interment
In this week's Roundup: Veterans Day film coming up on HBO; the remains of a soldier lost in WWII accounted for and returned home for interment
In this week's Roundup: Memorial service for Pvt. Willard Jenkins, who lost his life in WWII; clutter transformed in film, and more...
In this week's Roundup: Welcome home to Master Sgt. Charles Hobart McDaniel (lost in the Korean War) and Pfc. Willard Jenkins (lost in WWII), a new research resource for those with Catholic heritage, a forgotten library for sale, and more.
In this week's Roundup: A news story about the DPAA's work to find and identify U.S. service members from conflicts dating to World War II (and even occasionally World War I); plus two soldiers–one who gave his life in the Korean War and the other in World War II–whose remains have been recently identified.
In this week's Roundup: creating catalogs of ancestors' lives, genealogy tourism, a new resource coming for tracing Jewish genealogy, and much more.
In this week's Roundup: Tuskegee Airman Capt. Lawrence E. Dickson's daughter receives a memento of her late father, a crack squad of librarians, two sons receive their missing father's Korean War dog tag, and much more...
In this week's Roundup: The variety of tools used to identify decades-old remains of soldiers unaccounted for, the remains of Tuskegee Airman Capt. Lawrence E. Dickson have been officially identified, books that had once belonged to Thomas Jefferson found in a dumpster and returned, and more.
In this week's Roundup: A soldier killed in World War II is returned home for burial nearly 74 years after his death, an exciting new project from Reclaim the Records, DNA braids, and more.
In this week's Roundup: Welcome home and RIP Staff Sgt. David Rosenkrantz and Pfc. Willard Jenkins, myths about immigrant ancestors debunked, century-old divorce records, and more...
In this week's Roundup: A sweet story about a 96-y-o WWII veteran who received unexpected help to visit his wife's grave, new DNA technology (and lots more on genetic genealogy), a missing soldier from the Korean War identified, and much more!