Lay the Foundation for a Successful Research Project. 

Webinar recorded October 2026

WWII military research can quickly become a maze of dates, military units, locations, records, family stories, conflicting information, and unanswered questions. Not to mention all the files you probably downloaded and paper records you have accumulated.

Without a system to document what you found and where you found it, important details get lost, discrepancies go unresolved, and valuable leads slip through the cracks. A military research report brings all the pieces together by:

• Helping you see the bigger picture.
• Helping you track the footsteps or movements and units/ships/stations of your service member through a timeline.
• Understand what the records reveal and identify what is missing.
• Build a reliable foundation for telling a veteran’s story.

A military research report with timeline of military service is more than a place to store your findings. The report will serve as a roadmap that turns scattered information into meaningful, documented history.

In this class, you’ll learn how to use templates to record facts, cite sources, document discrepancies, preserve family stories, track research leads, and connect information from multiple records.

Whether you’re researching a family member or preparing to write a veteran’s story, you’ll learn how to organize your research into a valuable resource for yourself, your family, and future researchers.

What's Included

In this 60-minute program, you’ll learn:

• Jennifer's 2-part research strategy (a brief overview).
• How to create a military research report that cites sources, includes notes, a timeline, and next steps.
• How to create a military timeline of service for Army, Army Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, and Coast Guard/Merchant Marines.
• The program comes with multiple report templates you can make your own.
• For those who need to submit APG continuing education proof, this program comes with a Certificate of Completion.

Source citations were initially created using Evidence Explained by Elizabeth Shown Mills.

This class is designed for genealogists, family historians, military researchers, writers, and anyone researching a veteran or fallen service member. You do not need to be an experienced military researcher. The class is designed to help you take the information you already have—or are beginning to discover—and organize it into a system that makes further research easier.

Access to this program is one year.

Jennifer's courses and Zoom chats have removed so much mystery from the process of researching a military veteran. I appreciate the straightforward approach that avoids going down endless trails of research that does not yield any results. She has designed a method to work through the labyrinth of military records which makes it possible for any level of researcher to understand.

I am an experienced researcher and Jennifer opened research doors for me I was unaware of. If you're serious about your research invest the time with Jennifer, her knowledge is the kind only gained from decades of experience in this field.

~Monique