A Free Resource for WWII Records, Military and Civilian

A terrific new resource will help you unearth family history records from the 1940s and 1950s. And guess what...it's free! 

Preparing for D-Day

Digging through World War II era records is very challenging, both because there's so much available online, but also because so many important records haven't been digitized yet. The folks at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans have put together Researching American Military and Civilian Records from World War II to help you sort it all out. Just register at the site, and download the guide at no charge.

There's good stuff here for researching veterans, employees of the military and plain old civilians. The guide includes write-ups on specialized sources including:

• MEDICAL RECORDS
• NAVAL AVIATION TRAINING JACKETS 
• MISSING AIR CREW REPORTS
• MERCHANT MARINES
• PRISONERS OF WAR (POWS)
• FEDERAL CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES
• JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNEE RECORDS
• RED CROSS RECORDS
• US CADET NURSE CORPS

Some of it's online, most of it isn't, but the document is a good guide to what's what. Hopefully, it will help you track down genealogy information that would have been elusive otherwise.  

And don't forget, a few other pages on my blog here include enlistment records and American military records from the Revolutionary War onwards.

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Don't forget to also check for your family history at NewspaperArchive and Newspapers.com. These are subscription databases, but they are among the most powerful research tools available for looking into family roots. And visit the main page of Free Genealogy Tools for more, umm, free genealogical tools.