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Unlock the Power of Your Veteran Stories: A Transformative Program for 2024!

As we embark on the journey of a new year, let's make 2024 a year of profound transformation by honoring the heroes wh...

I have just updated my Speaking calendar for the end of 2023 and through mid-2024. If your organization would like to book me to speak, please visit my programs page to see what's available and then e...

In 2020-2021, I ran a lot of Zoom meetings for military research and genealogy/ancestral healing. A lot of things shifted and I stopped doing them for a long time. Now, I'm bringing back online comm...

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July 12, 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the fire that destroyed thousands of Army and Army Air Force and Air Force Official Military Personnel Files at the National Personn...

50 years ago today, shortly after midnight, a fire raged at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri, destroying vast numbers of Army and Army Air Force/Air Force Official Military...

Yesterday I had a consultation with a potential research client who was seeking answers about his family's history and his father's military service. He had previously hired another military resea...

The family should be studied as a whole when we talk about the experiences of our veterans and war. 

 Do you agree or disagree with that statement?

As genealogists and military researchers, when the...

Most of my research clients and people I meet and talk to about their WWI or WWII service member tell me the same things.

I couldn't get the military records because the burned.

He never talked about th...