Ancestry.com free military records until June 6

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Laurie S

Ancestry.com free military records until June 6

Legg inn av Laurie S » 25 mai 2007 04:53:31

"Ancestry.com has made access to its military records collection free
through June 6 to commemorate the anniversary of D-Day, when the
Normandy invasion began in 1944. You can both search and download record
images (you'll need to register with the site before viewing records)."

Laurie

Darlene

Re: Ancestry.com free military records until June 6

Legg inn av Darlene » 25 mai 2007 21:48:04

Laurie S wrote:
"Ancestry.com has made access to its military records collection free
through June 6 to commemorate the anniversary of D-Day, when the
Normandy invasion began in 1944. You can both search and download record
images (you'll need to register with the site before viewing records)."

Laurie

And comes the following from ancestry.com:

Love the guy's name!

It was a historic day for Ancestry.com.

Dear Friend,

Today’s massive launch of military records and historical newsreels was
a big hit in the press. So much so that Ancestry.com experienced record
traffic — and some of our valued members experienced slow-downs and
other issues on the site.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. We’re
working nonstop to get Ancestry.com up and running in top form. Please
check back with us soon to access the exciting new Military Collection
and the rest of our collections.

Thank you for your patience,

Andrew Wait
General Manager, Ancestry.com

clifto

Re: Ancestry.com free military records until June 6

Legg inn av clifto » 26 mai 2007 05:19:55

Darlene wrote:
It was a historic day for Ancestry.com.

Where is this military stuff normally found by subscribers? I could get to
it from the library account, most likely.

--
We can't possibly imprison 300 million Americans for not paying their taxes,
so let's grant all of them amnesty NOW!

Laurie S

Re: Ancestry.com free military records until June 6

Legg inn av Laurie S » 26 mai 2007 05:32:40

I've had no problems with access but I use a cable modem. I usually go
to the "My Ancestry" page and then on the right side they list the
categories. In the "Military" category, you can search all the related
databases at once and view, save and print images. Otherwise from the
main page, choose "Advanced Search" and then enter the person's info and
at the bottom choose "Choose which category to search" and choose
military. If you have FTM, search from within the program.
Laurie


clifto wrote:
Darlene wrote:

It was a historic day for Ancestry.com.


Where is this military stuff normally found by subscribers? I could get to
it from the library account, most likely.

Tim Johnson

Re: Ancestry.com free military records until June 6

Legg inn av Tim Johnson » 26 mai 2007 15:17:43

Im glad they added them. What a find!


Laurie S <loriannsk@comcast.net> wrote in
news:Xc-dnSTR1tTlJcrbnZ2dnUVZ_q-vnZ2d@comcast.com:

I've had no problems with access but I use a cable modem. I usually go
to the "My Ancestry" page and then on the right side they list the
categories. In the "Military" category, you can search all the related
databases at once and view, save and print images. Otherwise from the
main page, choose "Advanced Search" and then enter the person's info
and at the bottom choose "Choose which category to search" and choose
military. If you have FTM, search from within the program.
Laurie


clifto wrote:
Darlene wrote:

It was a historic day for Ancestry.com.


Where is this military stuff normally found by subscribers? I could
get to it from the library account, most likely.



ntantiques

Re: Ancestry.com free military records until June 6

Legg inn av ntantiques » 26 mai 2007 22:14:09

On May 24, 8:53?pm, Laurie S <lorian...@comcast.net> wrote:
"Ancestry.com has made access to its military records collection free
through June 6 to commemorate the anniversary of D-Day, when the
Normandy invasion began in 1944. You can both search and download record
images (you'll need to register with the site before viewing records)."

Laurie

No trouble accessing the site on my creaky dial up, but want to warn
people not to be disappointed if their "folks" don't pop up in a
search of these records...although they're supposed to include WWI,
WWII, & Viet Nam I had very spotty results. No results at all for my
husband (Viet Nam Marine), his father (WWII Navy and Marine - and a
career Marine officer), or his uncle (WWII Navy). Draft registration
card for my WWII Army vet Dad showed up as did his father's - but not
for his WWI Army service...Ancestry just had my grandfather's WWII
draft registration card. Realize some records have been destroyed,
but those aren't great results.

Shouldn't complain, since they were free, but I'd be peeved if I'd
paid for the service. Had the same experience with their Immigration
records, which I was able to search on another of their temporary free
periods a while back.

That said, I really do appreciate those who take the time to give the
rest of us a "heads up" when there are free search offers at Ancestry
- hate to miss an opportunity to dig out another piece of the puzzle,
and you never know when you'll get lucky.
Thanks Laurie,
Nancy T

Jim Elbrecht

Re: Ancestry.com free military records until June 6

Legg inn av Jim Elbrecht » 27 mai 2007 14:02:27

On 26 May 2007 14:14:09 -0700, ntantiques <ntantiques@aol.com> wrote:

-snip-
No trouble accessing the site on my creaky dial up, but want to warn
people not to be disappointed if their "folks" don't pop up in a
search of these records...although they're supposed to include WWI,
WWII, & Viet Nam I had very spotty results. No results at all for my
husband (Viet Nam Marine),

As far as I can see, the Vietnam data set is casualties and valor
awards. If I remember right- 'casualties' is the common misuse that
only included those killed. [*real* casualties include wounded,
mishaps and captured] [That said- it still isn't complete- but
there is no complete list of those of us who served over there]

I'm not on either list- but I thought of two Marines who are- Emilio
DeLaGarza should be on both- but only occurs twice on the casualty
list.

The "Combat Area Casualties Current File" listing seems accurate as
far as I can remember.
[He was older than I remembered- and married, which I did not
remember.]

The "Coffelt Database" mentions that he was awarded the Medal of
Honor.- and that he was with 2nd Bn. , 1st Marines. [the Medal of
Honor write up is at
http://libertyyes.homestead.com/Awards- ... Garza.html ]

The other Marine that should appear on the awards list is Lewis
Puller, another 2/1 Marine. He received the Silver & Bronze Stars-
a bit about him at
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.h ... wanted=all


his father (WWII Navy and Marine - and a
career Marine officer), or his uncle (WWII Navy).

Looks like it is just Army for WWII

For WWII - I found my father and uncle in the enlisted database---
It said my uncle was 88 inches tall and weighed 100 pounds. I thought
*he* was skinny-- my father was listed as 70inches- and 000 pounds.<g>
Unfortunately no images so you can see if the transcriber erred or the
original was wrong. Found wife's uncle in Army enlistment list.

No listing for Mother-in-law - Army Nurse Corps, or father-in-law,
SeaBees.

Draft registration
card for my WWII Army vet Dad showed up as did his father's - but not
for his WWI Army service...

Army service doesn't mean he had to register for the draft.
from http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/wwidraft.htm

There were 3 drafts-
"The first, on June 5, 1917, was for all men between the ages of 21
and 31.
The second, on June 5, 1918, registered those who attained age 21
after June 5, 1917. (A supplemental registration was held on August
24, 1918 for those becoming 21 years old after June 5, 1918. This was
included in the second registration.)
The third registration was held on September 12, 1918 for men aged 18
through 45."

There were also exemptions- farmers and folks born in Germany and
Austria were two. Not sure if you still had to register.



Ancestry just had my grandfather's WWII
draft registration card. Realize some records have been destroyed,
but those aren't great results.

The destroyed records- if you are referring to the fire- wouldn't have
included draft registrations. The straight scoop on that is here;
http://www1.va.gov/opa/fact/stlouis.asp

Shouldn't complain, since they were free, but I'd be peeved if I'd
paid for the service. Had the same experience with their Immigration
records, which I was able to search on another of their temporary free
periods a while back.

I'm paying for it now after trying it free several times over 10
years. It is frustrating sometimes-- but when it works it more
than makes up for the bad days.

I've been transcribing 100 yr old letters from a couple of my wife's
ancestors and it sure is handy to be able to see a name and just go
online to look at a few census records or whatever to see how that
person fits into the grand scheme of things.


Jim

ntantiques

Re: Ancestry.com free military records until June 6

Legg inn av ntantiques » 27 mai 2007 23:29:57

On May 27, 6:02�am, Jim Elbrecht <elbre...@email.com> wrote:
On 26 May 2007 14:14:09 -0700, ntantiques <ntantiq...@aol.com> wrote:

-snip-

No trouble accessing the site on my creaky dial up, but want to warn
people not to be disappointed if their "folks" don't pop up in a
search of these records...although they're supposed to include WWI,
WWII, & Viet Nam I  had very spotty results.  No results at all for my
husband (Viet Nam Marine),

As far as I can see, the Vietnam data set is casualties and valor
awards.   If I remember right- 'casualties' is the common misuse that
only included those killed. [*real* casualties include wounded,
mishaps and captured]      [That said- it still isn't complete- but
there is no complete list of those of us who served over there]

I'm not on either list- but I thought of two Marines who are-   Emilio
DeLaGarza should be on both- but only occurs twice on the casualty
list.

The "Combat Area Casualties Current File" listing seems accurate as
far as I can remember.
[He was older than I remembered- and married, which I did not
remember.]

The "Coffelt Database" mentions that he was awarded the Medal of
Honor.- and that he was with 2nd Bn. , 1st Marines. [the Medal of
Honor write up is athttp://libertyyes.homestead.com/Award ... Garza.html]

The other Marine that should appear on the awards list is Lewis
Puller, another 2/1 Marine.    He received the Silver & Bronze Stars-
a bit about him athttp://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage ... 3AA25755...

 his father (WWII Navy and Marine - and a

career Marine officer), or his uncle (WWII Navy).

Looks like it is just Army for WWII

For WWII - I found my father and uncle in the enlisted database---
It said my uncle was 88 inches tall and weighed 100 pounds.  I thought
*he* was skinny-- my father was listed as 70inches- and 000 pounds.<g
Unfortunately no images so you can see if the transcriber erred or the
original was wrong.  Found wife's uncle in Army enlistment list.

No listing for Mother-in-law - Army Nurse Corps, or father-in-law,
SeaBees.

Draft registration
card for my WWII Army vet Dad showed up as did his father's - but not
for his WWI Army service...

Army service doesn't mean he had to register for the draft.        
fromhttp://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/wwidraft.htm

There were 3 drafts-
"The first, on June 5, 1917, was for all men between the ages of 21
and 31.
The second, on June 5, 1918, registered those who attained age 21
after June 5, 1917. (A supplemental registration was held on August
24, 1918 for those becoming 21 years old after June 5, 1918. This was
included in the second registration.)
The third registration was held on September 12, 1918 for men aged 18
through 45."

There were also exemptions- farmers and folks born in Germany and
Austria were two. Not sure if you still had to register.

Ancestry just had my grandfather's WWII
draft registration card.  Realize some records have been destroyed,
but those aren't great results.

The destroyed records- if you are referring to the fire- wouldn't have
included draft registrations.  The straight scoop on that is here;http://www1.va.gov/opa/fact/stlouis.asp



Shouldn't complain, since they were free, but I'd be peeved if I'd
paid for the service. Had the same experience with their Immigration
records, which I was able to search on another of their temporary free
periods a while back.

I'm paying for it now after trying it free several times over 10
years.      It is frustrating sometimes-- but when it works it more
than makes up for the bad days.    

I've been transcribing 100 yr old letters from a couple of my wife's
ancestors and it sure is handy to be able to see a name and just go
online to look at a few census records or whatever to see how that
person fits into the grand scheme of things.

Jim

Jim,

I've been paying for the basic Ancestry.com service for years and
agree it's useful - especially the census files. But based on my poor
results on recent "free" military & immigration searches, I just can't
see increasing my payment to include any upgrades. Seem to remember
that when I started w/Ancestry, those searches were both included free
in the results. Every time they change their format, another little
padlock seems to show up next to something I used to get as part of my
membership.

Can't tell you how much I envy your coming up with family letters on
Ancestry...although I'd always get plenty of hits when I did a search,
invariably I'd come up frustratingly empty - never, ever was it my
ancestor. Usually it wasn't even close.

My dead-end Ancestry military records seaches were done through their
general Military Records search portal, with the pertinent war
highlighted. In noodling around again this afternoon (thanks to the
Oregon rain gods), I re-ran my FIL - this time using the specific
file on Marine Rosters through 1940. Although he's a "no show" on
Ancestry's main Military Search, he's there, big as life, on the
Roster search. Will have to try with my other "missing in action"
relatives.

Nancy T

Jim Elbrecht

Re: Ancestry.com free military records until June 6

Legg inn av Jim Elbrecht » 28 mai 2007 02:29:05

On 27 May 2007 15:29:57 -0700, ntantiques <ntantiques@aol.com> wrote:


-snip
I've been paying for the basic Ancestry.com service for years and
agree it's useful - especially the census files. But based on my poor
results on recent "free" military & immigration searches, I just can't
see increasing my payment to include any upgrades. Seem to remember
that when I started w/Ancestry, those searches were both included free
in the results. Every time they change their format, another little
padlock seems to show up next to something I used to get as part of my
membership.

I just started paying last Nov. after they simplified things- "U.S
Deluxe". or "World deluxe". Didn't know they still offered a
basic- maybe you've been grandfathered in.

Can't tell you how much I envy your coming up with family letters on
Ancestry...

Sorry to mislead you. The letters are from several boxes in
mother-in-law and her sisters' attics. Ancestry has been useful for
pinning down who many of the distant relations were. I wouldn't
spend the time necessary in libraries and archives to connect every
person mentioned, but ancestry makes it much easier---- usually.


-snip-
My dead-end Ancestry military records seaches were done through their
general Military Records search portal, with the pertinent war
highlighted. In noodling around again this afternoon (thanks to the
Oregon rain gods), I re-ran my FIL - this time using the specific
file on Marine Rosters through 1940. Although he's a "no show" on
Ancestry's main Military Search, he's there, big as life, on the
Roster search. Will have to try with my other "missing in action"
relatives.

grrrr--- One of the frustrations of database searches. We think
something should show up under one heading - but the compiler has
other ideas.

Happy hunting-
Jim

Sir Creep

Re: Ancestry.com free military records until June 6

Legg inn av Sir Creep » 07 jun 2007 19:54:58

On May 24, 11:53 pm, Laurie S <lorian...@comcast.net> wrote:
"Ancestry.com has made access to its military records collection free
through June 6 to commemorate the anniversary of D-Day, when the
Normandy invasion began in 1944. You can both search and download record
images (you'll need to register with the site before viewing records)."

Laurie

I found the 'offer' uninspiring. Seeing as it excluded WWI records,
it was of little value to me -- I've either already got the info on
WWII/Korea vest or can ASK THEM for it.
Thanks for little, Ancestry. You never cease to amaze.

SC

f/fgeorge

Re: Ancestry.com free military records until June 6

Legg inn av f/fgeorge » 07 jun 2007 20:07:48

On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:54:58 -0700, Sir Creep <sircreep@hotmail.com>
wrote:

On May 24, 11:53 pm, Laurie S <lorian...@comcast.net> wrote:
"Ancestry.com has made access to its military records collection free
through June 6 to commemorate the anniversary of D-Day, when the
Normandy invasion began in 1944. You can both search and download record
images (you'll need to register with the site before viewing records)."

Laurie

I found the 'offer' uninspiring. Seeing as it excluded WWI records,
it was of little value to me -- I've either already got the info on
WWII/Korea vest or can ASK THEM for it.
Thanks for little, Ancestry. You never cease to amaze.

SC
Considering that D-Day was for WWII, it makes sense that no WWI

records are included for free. They ARE in it for the money! They are
trying to wet your appetite, not give away the store.

singhals

Re: Ancestry.com free military records until June 6

Legg inn av singhals » 07 jun 2007 20:58:57

f/fgeorge wrote:

On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:54:58 -0700, Sir Creep <sircreep@hotmail.com
wrote:


On May 24, 11:53 pm, Laurie S <lorian...@comcast.net> wrote:

"Ancestry.com has made access to its military records collection free
through June 6 to commemorate the anniversary of D-Day, when the
Normandy invasion began in 1944. You can both search and download record
images (you'll need to register with the site before viewing records)."

Laurie

I found the 'offer' uninspiring. Seeing as it excluded WWI records,
it was of little value to me -- I've either already got the info on
WWII/Korea vest or can ASK THEM for it.
Thanks for little, Ancestry. You never cease to amaze.

SC

Considering that D-Day was for WWII, it makes sense that no WWI
records are included for free. They ARE in it for the money! They are
trying to wet your appetite, not give away the store.



Well, now, I dunno -- I saw WWI draft registration cards
with the freebie; I also looked at some US WBtS records and
some other military records.

OTOH, anyone who still have living WW-2 relatives better ask
questions while they can. Someone else can do the math, but
2007 less 1945 plus a minimum age of 16 in 1945 ...

Cheryl

James A. Doemer

Re: Ancestry.com free military records until June 6

Legg inn av James A. Doemer » 09 jun 2007 02:28:30

In News DI6dndy7EMkc_vXbnZ2dnUVZ_jSdnZ2d@rcn.net,, singhals at
singhals@erols.com, typed this:

f/fgeorge wrote:

On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:54:58 -0700, Sir Creep <sircreep@hotmail.com
wrote:


On May 24, 11:53 pm, Laurie S <lorian...@comcast.net> wrote:

"Ancestry.com has made access to its military records collection
free through June 6 to commemorate the anniversary of D-Day, when
the Normandy invasion began in 1944. You can both search and
download record images (you'll need to register with the site
before viewing records)." Laurie

I found the 'offer' uninspiring. Seeing as it excluded WWI records,
it was of little value to me -- I've either already got the info on
WWII/Korea vest or can ASK THEM for it.
Thanks for little, Ancestry. You never cease to amaze.

SC

Considering that D-Day was for WWII, it makes sense that no WWI
records are included for free. They ARE in it for the money! They are
trying to wet your appetite, not give away the store.



Well, now, I dunno -- I saw WWI draft registration cards
with the freebie; I also looked at some US WBtS records and
some other military records.

OTOH, anyone who still have living WW-2 relatives better ask
questions while they can. Someone else can do the math, but
2007 less 1945 plus a minimum age of 16 in 1945 ...

Cheryl

I've interviewed all of my uncles, most now gone and have it chronicled,
first on Video Tape, and recently transferred it to DVD. Lots of
interesting stuff there. The one Uncle I missed getting was my Granduncle
Donald, who died the year after I was born of Leukemia. Unfortunately, no
one thought about talking to him of his Army/Air Force years. The only
ones left now is my Uncle Harold, Army, and his brother, Uncle Warren who
actually served in Korea, Marines. One of the few survivors of the Chosin
Reservoir.

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