The Two Best Places to Begin Researching your 20th Century Veteran’s War Service
Maybe it’s because I’ve spent the last eighteen years as part of the military community; Or perhaps it’s because I grew up in a family largely comprised of history buffs. But in any case, I find that many Americans have a desire to learn more about their ancestors’ War time service, particularly that of the First and Second World Wars.
The One Thing I Do Before Starting a New Genealogy Research Project
All good genealogy projects start with known information. We use known information to lead us to sources and records. We then use those sources and records as steppingstones to lead us to unknown information. Probably without exception, if we use this method, we will eventually find ourselves researching a locality or a topic such as a religion, an ethnicity, an occupation, etc. with which we are unfamiliar.
