Today is veteran's day. In honor of all who have served, today's post is going to highlight some of my previous posts about veterans. Last year, my Veteran's Day post, Veterans in My Tree, documented those individuals in my genealogy file with a military service fact. This year, I'm going to create a list of …
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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!):1) Have you found a common document or record (e.g., vital record, military record, …
Mailbag
Do you remember the days of the SASE, putting one in a letter and then waiting for it to come back to you? (SASE: Self addressed stamped envelope) Well, even though I didn't receive a SASE in the mail, I did receive a bounty of genealogy documents in the mail recently! One package was from …
Saturday Tidbits
Nemaha County Men Leave for Camp The Courier TribuneMonday, January 6, 1941page 1 The United States is building for possible war but largely this has been a matter of registration, of steps being taken at other places, no great change close at hand.But military preparedness struck home in Nemaha county Friday of last week, when …
Memorial Day
Today is the day that was established to honor those who died while serving our country. Can you identify your ancestors or cousins whom we would honor today? Although I am aware of some of my cousins, I cannot readily name them. However, my genealogy program is a database. Thus, I should be able to …
Saturday Tidbits
1940 Draft Continued Courier TribuneThursday, November 21, 1940page 1 Draft Order(Official List Continued) 51 Wilbur Louis Roeder52 Virgil Elmer Brockman53 Walter Stauffer54 Vincent Frank Wessel55 Gerald Edwin Wiggins56 Raymond Clarence Shaffer57 George Darrel Hawley58 Bernard Frances Runnebaum59 Ferdinand Henry Niehues60 Sylvester Joseph Wietharn61 Edward john Hasenkamp62 William Joseph Flaherty63 Elmer Walter Allen64 Willis Eugene Barnes65 …
Saturday Tidbits
1940 Draft Numbers from page 1 of the November 18, 1940 issue of The Courier-Tribune First Blanks This WeekTo the Draftees Questionnaires Will Likely Start into the Mails Wednesday The Nemaha county draft board will send the first federal draft questionnaires to “draftees” this week probably starting with 50 on Wednesday.The county has a total …
Saturday Tidbits
Page 8 of the November 11, 1940 issue of the Courier Tribune Ralph Anderson, Hiawatha, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Anderson, Oneida, a lieutenant in the naval radio reserve, has been called to Washington, D.C. His wife is packing her household goods and will join him soon. Ralph’s cousin, Harold Anderson, Sabetha is also …
Saturday Tidbits
Bell Fighter The Army’s newest battle of the skies. Armed with five machine guns, the Bell Fighter is the most formidable fighting plane in the U. S. Air Corps Planes such as the Bell Fighter pictured above are being added to the nation’s air force as fast as modern production methods can supply them. To …
1939 Air Corps
The following articles about Nemaha countians in the air corp were found in the 1939 issues of Seneca area paper. Want Forty Men for the Air CorpsRecruiting activities to strengthen the national defense hit a new high in Wichita recently when Major L. D. Bogan, army recruiting officer, issued a call for 40 men for …