Carol Gafford August 15, 2009 at 3:50 pm

I would like to put your information in our local genealogy newsletter. Can I take the information you have written in this blog and use it? All credit will go to this blog. Thank you.

Robert Summers August 16, 2009 at 5:41 am

If there is a way to subscribe to the blog, I don’t see it. How about an RSS feed or email subscription mechanism?

Jill (admin) August 16, 2009 at 9:44 am

Carol,

Feel free to include any of the info in your newsletter. Thanks!

- Jill (Admin)

Jill (admin) August 16, 2009 at 9:59 am

Robert,

There is a way to subscribe. RSS feed options are at the bottom of the blog’s home page. The links are labeled “Entries (RSS)” and “Comments (RSS).” Let us know if you have any other questions about the RSS feeds!

- Jill (Admin)

Wanda August 16, 2009 at 10:20 am

For research purposes I would place the items in simple to understand catergories.
The word tag to me covers to wide of a range of items including graphics some people in the internet world use the word tag to descibe catergories which to me is very misleading with to many results when seaching for an item. Good luck.

Jenna August 16, 2009 at 10:43 am

Is the RSS feed working? I am unable to subscribe also. Thanks!

Jill (admin) August 17, 2009 at 8:35 am

Jenna,

We’re going to check with our tech staff about the RSS feed and will post more info soon.

Thanks,
Jill (Admin)

Jill August 25, 2009 at 8:51 am

Our RSS feed seems to be working fine.

Our tech staff let us know about this tutorial (Video: RSS in Plain English) on YouTube that you might want to check out. It’s 3:44 minutes long.

Erik Larson August 26, 2009 at 11:49 pm

If anyone would like to see NARA’s 9/11 Commission records, I’ve been scanning the 35% that was released Jan 09; close to 50,000 pages uploaded here:
http://www.scribd.com/911DocumentArchive

“Everyone would love to see all of the records available online as high-resolution scans with full-text searchability and a variety of ways to tag, search, browse, and discover the documents, photographs, maps, and films. And how about we get this completed by yesterday?”

You said it!

Thanks for launching this blog, bookmarking it.

Trish Lewis February 26, 2010 at 11:35 am

I dislike rss feed subscriptions for many reasons I won’t get into. Can you provide a way to subscribe so I can get your posts delivered to my email? Thank you…

Claire Bettag March 6, 2010 at 12:22 am

I’m with Trish Lewis. Please let us subscribe by email…AND please provide the option for subscribing in digest mode. It’s the only way I participate in blogs. Ditto for the “Open Government Idea Forum”–please make subscriptions available in digest form.
Thank you!

Bonnie November 28, 2010 at 7:15 pm

For genealogy purposes, i would like to know what to do to enable me to access my deceased fathers war record. Enlisted 1944-to 1945. I do not have his social security # and was told I would need that to access records.

John December 1, 2010 at 10:20 am

Hi Bonnie,

There are two options you can pursue to locate your father’s World War II service record. Online, you can go to NARA’s web site at http://www.archives.gov and check the Access to Archival Databases (AAD). There you will find an electronic data file for “World War II Army Enlistment records, 1938-1946.” If you find him there, you can then use the information to write to the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri to locate further information (you will need to fill out Standard Form (SF) 180 to request records from St. Louis; the form is also available to download on the NARA web site). If you don’t find your father in AAD, you will still need to contact St. Louis, because they will have personnel files for the other branches of service as well. One thing to keep in mind, though, is that a fire at St. Louis in 1973 destroyed 80% of the Army personnel files for veterans discharged between 1912 and 1960, so that includes the World War II servicemen. If that happens to affect your father’s service, you should still contact St. Louis because they may be able to recreate some service information from other existing records. Good luck!

- John

John April 11, 2011 at 5:05 pm

Hi Susie,

You certainly can request files for any Civil War veteran! Civil War records are not affected by any privacy or next-of-kin restrictions. You can request service records for any soldier by downloading NATF form 86 from NARA’s web site at http://www.archives.gov/forms/pdf/natf-86.pdf. Good luck!

- John

Susie April 12, 2011 at 12:13 pm

Thank you John.

Sam Bishop August 1, 2011 at 6:59 pm

Hi. I’ve tried to subscribe via e-mail, and have gotten the message:
“Subscribe to Email Updates
A confirmation message is on its way!
You can also subscribe to the RSS feed.”
However, the confirmation email never arrives. Is this service functional?
Thanks,
Sam Bishop

Nichole (admin) August 2, 2011 at 10:56 am

Hi Sam,

The email updates should be working. Did you ever receive a confirmation email? I checked the subscribers list and it looks like your subscription has been confirmed. Let me know if you’re not getting updates.

Thanks!
Nichole

Barbara Y. Williams August 28, 2011 at 4:40 pm

I would like to know the unit or squadron number OCD James M. Landis ,Director to the Civil Air Patrol Cadets in NYC,1Oct 1942. Manhattan H.S.of
Aviation Trades @220 E.63rd St.

Barbara Y. Williams August 28, 2011 at 5:01 pm

I would like to know the unit or squadron number OCD James M. Landis ,Director, gave to the Civil Air Patrol Cadets in NYC,1Oct 1942. Manhattan H.S.of
Aviation Trades @220 E.63rd St.

Nguyen Duc Nguyen September 12, 2011 at 4:13 pm

I have my NARA Research Card (041815) with Expiration date: 8/21/2004. Could I have it renewed ON LINE?
I suppose that I could send my expired card with ID photo as attachment. I would appreciate your reply asap. Thank you. NDN

Nguyen Duc Nguyen September 12, 2011 at 4:29 pm

I ‘ve just sent my request for research card’s renewal. As I was going to terminate my email, I found the “Thank you for your comment!” I suppose that the acknowledgement had been automatically set up! “Bravo!” and Thanks.

Meredith D. (admin) September 13, 2011 at 10:28 am

Hi Barbara,

The best way to find the information you’re looking for would be to send your question, including everything you know about the soldier, to our general reference email: inquire@nara.gov. That way, your question can be directed to the appropriate reference staff. Good luck with your research!

Meredith

Meredith D. (admin) September 13, 2011 at 10:51 am

Hi Nguyen,

We don’t renew research cards online, so please bring your expired card with you on your next visit. Since your card is only needed to access the research rooms, we renew research cards in person at the time of your visit. More information about research cards is available on our website: http://www.archives.gov/research/start/researcher-card.html

Good luck with your research!
Meredith

busybee October 7, 2011 at 3:52 pm

I have been searching the hertiage of my ancestors for 5 years now an i’m getting to old now, i found these numbers under NARA on each of there names yet I cannot find what it means are where i can locate the information please help! NARA publication T626- roll 2334, film number 2342068, digital number 4547957, image number 00046, this all i have and it shows up on all my great grandparents and their sister, brothers to.

Marty Blackmore January 13, 2012 at 3:22 pm

I am attempting get info on Col Warren Colville, MSG Kerwin Stackpoole and MSG Jack Shea.

madeline vernon March 2, 2012 at 4:56 pm

looking for 1940 census for
Harry Deiter (spouse Beatrice)
Harry Berger (spouse Rebecca)
Joel Deiter (spouse Fannie (y?)
all resided in Brooklyn New York
Thank you Madeline Vernon

nancy mc shane March 6, 2012 at 9:20 pm

I am trying to locate a birth record for my grandmother who was a orphan train rider that originated in NYC. Her name was Marie Perrine and she was in a catholic orphanage and at age 10 was adopted by the gilmore family in whiting Indinan, she was born in the 1880-1890′s. Any direction to where I might inquire will be greatly appreciated. Do you have the 1860 census?

Judy Reed April 7, 2012 at 7:50 pm

I am trying to locate my mother’s family in Germany. She came to the US in 1960′s. I have her passport number and want to know if I will be able to use that number to find her family in Germany.

Thomas Hudson May 10, 2012 at 2:54 pm

I am trying to obtain a copy of my Grandmothers Birth Certificate. She was born ” Elizabeth Martin about 1840, in Birkenhead, Englandand and died June 17, 1925 in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her father his James Martin, born in Ireland. Her mother is Ann Callahan, born about 1833 in Wales, England.FATHER WAS jAMES mARTIN

sp4 w. muchler June 19, 2012 at 3:20 pm

i was a combat photographer with 69th sig. btln., detachment “b” in cam rahn bay, vietnam in 1967. i had photos in the stars and stripes newspaper. i would also like to see some of my other phots i took wile i was in the army over there. thank you very much, BILL

Meredith D. (admin) June 28, 2012 at 2:36 pm

Hi Bill,

We recommend contacting our modern military staff at archives2reference@nara.gov for information about your photos. The reference staff will be able to determine where they are located within our holdings.

Good luck with your research,
Meredith

Laura August 9, 2012 at 10:35 am

Could someone address the problem of locating original records when one has found images on the M598 images that NARA sent to Ancestry? Ancestry bucketed the entire 145 rolls on one loooonnnnngggggg series of 54,896 images. The problem is that one cannot tell, for an individual record, on which of the 145 reels the image appears. This renders the M598 finding aid, which is done by individual reel, useless. I am glad to come to NARA to find the original ledger for microfilm image 43,068 (as Ancestry has numbered it), but when I arrive at NARA, then what? I have been asking this same question of NARA for two years and there’s never any answer except come there.

Rebecca August 24, 2012 at 10:40 am

Hi Laura – We checked the images from M598 on Ancestry. For each name, a roll number is provided in the descriptive information for each person. For the page you mention, the names are all found on roll 7. If you wish to look at the microfilm, instead of the online images, the microfilm is available at our Washington, DC, building and may be available at some of our regional archives as well.

Carole Ann September 15, 2012 at 7:06 pm

I’m looking for an E&E report for Lt. Carl Gooch the pilot of a B-17 that crashed on 26 September 1944 in South Holland. I tried searching using “Carl Gooch” and Lt. Carl Gooch with no luck. Any suggestions on a better search term?

James Hilton Darragh November 28, 2012 at 3:50 pm

I served as Captain in the U S Army Medical Corps from 1 July 1953 to 30 June 1955, mostly stationed at U S Army Hospital at Fort Knox, Kentuky.
I have lost the copy of my discharged summary.
Could I get a duplicate copy.
James Darragh

James Hilton Darragh November 28, 2012 at 3:54 pm

I meant to write ‘discharge summary” or discharge paper, not discharged summary.
James Darragh

James Hilton Darragh November 28, 2012 at 4:04 pm

I hope you will be able to trace my military record.
James Darragh

James Hilton Darragh November 29, 2012 at 11:03 am

I would like to get a ccpy of my 30 June 1955 discharge summary.
James H. Darragh MD

Meredith D. (admin) November 29, 2012 at 11:32 am

Hi James,

You can obtain copies of your military discharge papers by filling out a Standard Form 180 (SF 180). Information about starting your request can be found on our website: http://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/index.html

Also, you can find more information about military records at the National Archives here: http://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/about-service-records.html

Best of luck with your research,
Meredith

Peyton December 9, 2012 at 11:05 am

I need some assistance in finding links to the After Action Reports for the 173rd Abn Bde for 1968. I have those for 1967, but need 1968 for info in a book I am writing.

Joe Edwards January 14, 2013 at 10:23 pm

John
I forgot to include my company in the 1/8/4ID. I was in 1st platoon of Delta Company. Platoon leader was Lt Tim Baker and the company CO was Capt Charles F. Burke.

Terry Hopkins January 29, 2013 at 4:07 pm

I’m trying to get a copy of the USS KOINER DER331 muster list from 1964 to 1965

Joe Edwards January 29, 2013 at 6:21 pm

You’ve answered a query from Terry Hopkins regarding his question. My question is regarding information on Delta Company 1bn 8Inf 4ID in Viet Nam 8/67-8/68. I was a squad leader in the 1st platoon whose Platoon Leader was Lt Tim Baker. Our CO was Capt. Charles Burke. Thank you!

Meredith D. (admin) February 1, 2013 at 4:06 pm

Hi Terry,

Please contact our military reference staff to obtain copies of the muster list; they will need to locate the unit recs/Navy muster rolls. You can email them directly at: archives2reference@nara.gov

Good luck with your research!
Meredith

Joe Edwards February 1, 2013 at 4:47 pm

Meredith D.- My name is Joe Edwards but you keep sending me a message that is meant for Terry Holmes and his query. I am looking for info on D Company 1st Bn 8th Inf 4th Inf Div. Trying to find company rosters from 9 Aug 67 through 8 Aug 68 in Pleiku, South Viet Nam.

Meredith D. (admin) February 1, 2013 at 4:59 pm

Joe, I apologize for any confusion. Our military reference staff will be able to look into your request more thoroughly and help you find information on company rosters from D Company 1st Bn 8th Inf 4th Inf Div. Please contact them via email at: archives2reference@nara.gov.

Thank you!
Meredith

Joe Edwards February 1, 2013 at 5:04 pm

Thank you so very much. Have a great weekend!