WWII Digital Detective

In This Class, You'll:

  • Get a brief overview of the 2-part research strategy and a basic understanding of what's online and offline.
  • Get started with an online WWI or WWII military research project.
  • Identify the websites most useful for military research.
  • Search Ancestry, Fold3, FamilySearch, and the NARA Catalog.
  • Use different search strategies when a basic name search doesn't work and learn why the name search doesn't always fill research needs.
  • Search for records using names, service numbers, units, locations, dates, and other clues.

Students Receive

  • Video of the program.
  • Workbooks - Course workbook. Civilian Conservation Corps Toolkit. Library of Congress Toolkit. Search Techniques for Fold3 and NARA Catalog Workbook.
  • Certificate of Completion.

 No refunds.