Thursday, May 24, 2007

90 Million War Records Go Online Today

Genealogy website Ancestry.com has just made available 90 million war records, the Associated Press reports. The press release states:
"On Thursday, Ancestry.com unveils more than 90 million U.S. war records from the first English settlement at Jamestown in 1607 through the Vietnam War's end in 1975. The site also has the names of 3.5 million U.S. soldiers killed in action, including 2,000 who died in
Iraq."

BHPL offers access to AncestryPlus through its public internet computers and will be offering a free genealogy program on Tuesday, June 26 at 7:00 pm. Learn how to use the Ancestry database in your genealogy research. Search the U.S. and U. K. Census, family genealogies, military records, maps, charts, birth, marriage and death records, the Social Security Death Index and much more in this huge online repository of information.

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