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 Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Beat Your Military Research Brick Walls
Posted by Diane
Your great-great-grandfather's military pension records could have
the answers you want about his Civil War service and the widow he
left behind ... if only you could find the records.
Or maybe your military genealogy brick wall is one of these:
- the 1973 fire
at the National Personnel Records Center, which destroyed
most records for Army personnel discharged from 1912 to 1960,
and air force personnel discharged from 1947 to 1964
- privacy restrictions for post-WWI soldiers
- service in a lesser-known war, without widely available or
publicized records
- service during peacetime, rather than a specific war
- several similarly named soldiers, any one of which could be
your relative (at $80 a pop, you won't be ordering that pension
unless you know it belongs to your guy)
- a POW
- a female ancestor in the Army Nurse Corps, Cadet Nurse Corps,
Women Airforce Service Pilots or other unit
- ... or you just don't know what records are available with
regard to your ancestor's military service, or how to get them
Our next webinar, Expert
Tricks for Beating Your Military Brick Walls, may be for you.
David
Allen Lambert, a military research expert and chief
genealogist at the New
England Historic Genealogical Society, will show you the best
strategies for solving difficult military records research
problems—and he'll tackle real-life brick walls of webinar
participants.
You can either submit your military brick-wall questions when you
register or during the live Q&A session. Here are the details:
- Date: Wednesday, Feb. 20
- Starting time: 7pm EST (that's 6pm CST, 5pm MST and 4pm
PST)
- Duration: 1 hour
- Registration: $49.99 (but save $10 if you
register before Feb. 13)
- Includes: participation in the live event, the ability
to watch the webinar again as many times as you like, a PDF of
the presentation slides and our
"Brick Wall Busters: Proving Military Service" handout.
Click here to learn more about the Expert
Tricks for Beating Your Military Brick Walls webinar!
Editor's Pick | Military records | Webinars
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 11:06:44 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00) 
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