Military Monday – Memorial Day 2013
Today we wish to honor all those men and women who have served and are currently serving our country.
How are you honoring your military ancestors? Are you writing their stories? Sharing photos? Using Sort Your Story to preserve their stories?
Please share with us how you are honoring your ancestors today.
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Follow Friday – May 10, 2013
This Friday in honor of this month having both V-E Day and Memorial Day, we will focus on military ancestors. Here are some websites, articles, and blog posts we encourage you to read. If you have a story to tell about one of your military ancestors, please write and share it with your family and consider having it published in a genealogical society’s newsletter, blog, magazine, or quarterly journal. Talk to area museums and historical societies about donating written copies of your work for their archives. Through your stories, their lives will be remembered and honored.
Pritzker Military Library article in the Chicago Tribune
StoryCorps This organization helps everyone tell their stories, but if you are a veteran or know of a story, please have it preserved.
National Archives and Records Administration Veterans’ Service Records and Research section
What are some other military websites you find useful? Please share with us in the comments.
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Motivation Monday – Remember Your Veterans on Memorial Day
Today is a day to remember and honor our veterans. Did you know Memorial Day began three years after the Civil War? You can read more about that on About.com’s Memorial Day – Origins and History.
Sort Your Story can help you remember and honor your veterans. Simply create a profile for a veteran in your family, or open one already created. Add a military folder if one has not been added. Drag and drop military records and photos and record the notes and sources attached to each.
Still have records to locate? Add another military folder and make some notes about the records you want to find. Create a research plan. Then when you locate the records and add them to the original military folder, you can delete that note from your research plan.
What stories do you know about your military ancestors? How are you honoring them today? Please share with us in the comments.
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