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What a good point, isaac, I thought of that the minute I read of this being available. I'd love to think it may be of help. My own small efforts didn't go all that far, but I haven't given up.

Either an Uncle of mine that served in the Military was one heck of a BS'er or their records are, on him at least, highly suspect. Say's he was 78" tall, @636 lbs., 2 years of college. According to the year of birth they show for him he would have been 55-56yrs of age upon entering the Army in 1940, that would make his mother (my grandmother) still an infant herself when he was born.

In truth, my 'Uncle Tanner' was almost a foot shorter, weighed 500lbs less, was at least 15-20yrs. younger, and as far as I've ever heard, never attended college. It appears the only info. I feel confident they have correct about him is his name and the county/state where he enlisted.

Wow ! I found my grandfathers draft registration from WWII. He was in the Fourth Registration conducted 27 April 1942. This was called the "old mans registration" , registered men who were between 45 & 64 years old & not already in the military. My grandfather was 50 years old at the time , born in 1891.

Mike

All they had on my dad was his enlistment date, marital status, height and weight. Should probably do a search on the Army's web site or something to get all the dope.

The best thing I can suggest is have a really unique name like mine, the records are few, mainly in Penn.
I even found the log entry discharging Harry S. Shreck hisself, even his final pay settlement of $126.35. My hat's off to the crew of the USS Deleware as they kept excellent records.
Even in 1920 they were into NavSpk, "Disch upon exp of enl Char. Ex. Awd. GC Medal $126.35 and HDB Parch disch and final settlement given."

Very cool, got totally hooked and have been struggling to remember maiden names all morning.

Found my dad's dad in the 1942 "old man's draft," too--he was 54, and was already in the WW I records as exempt because he was his mother's sole support!

I typed my last name and let it use the 'soundX' search, holy cow, my family is Japanese!

Is there anyway to search medals granted to service members? I have an Uncle that fought in WWII and recently found out that he received the Distinguished Service Medal. Mom could not tell me anything else (she got the info from my Uncle's sister). I know he flew in the Pacific and received the medal from a General, but don't know who that might have been. Curtis LeMay?

Anyone able to find wwII navy on that site, plenty of army, but can't find any navy.

thanks

I'm bumping this to top for those who haven't yet seen it but might find it of interest.

41...I just received an e-mail last night from the MOTHER of one of my divorce clients. I had earlier taken your thread info and forwarded it to my e-mail friends and clients. No friends responded but this one client's mother thanked me profusely for providing the site to her daughter. Said she gave up her errands and her Bridge club meeting to spend near 5 hours working the site. She said nothing however, about the job I did for her daughter!!

Just wanted to let you know you really made someone's day!

I thought my bunch showed up in the colonies in the 1840s. Seems there were some fighting in the revolution and every fight since.
Seems James was a popular name for Irish boys, for the past 200 some odd years.
Jim

Yeah, the common name thing is a drag for genealogy...I did pretty well putting together a family tree back to about 1830-1840 (when a lot of my British ancestors came over). Beyond that, I get stymied by a pair of Richard Bennetts who were born a couple miles apart in the same year.

And it seems like half the male population of central England around 1800 was named William Bostock!

I'm thinking if I ever have kids, I'll have to go way back for a distinctive family name...for a boy, how about naming him after my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Conchobhar Mac Nessa? (A branch that's totally undocumented but shows up in someone else's tree with consistent dates/places and linking through another ancestor with an unusual name.)

I have to say that the coolest thing was finding not only the passenger manifest for the ship that brought my great-grandfather here in the 1880s, but a picture of the ship itself.

Today this free offer ends, so I'm bumping it to top for those who haven't seen it.