Veteran’s Day

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, …

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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 …

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