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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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Have you always been able to say goodbye to the people you loved? People with whom you had strong energetic connections or were in significant relationships? What happened when you never had the...
The full-day military seminar I was to teach in Zeeland, Michigan on 27 August 2022 has now GONE VIRTUAL! Due to health concerns, we made the switch from live to virtual.
In the Stories from the...