Longtime Al's Morning Meeting contributor Jim Sweeney, managing editor of
SIGNAL Magazine, flagged this story to me.
The National Archives announced last week that it has teamed up with
Ancestry.com to make millions of historic documents available for free online in celebration of Memorial Day. Here is some background on the initiative:
Since 1998, Ancestry.com has digitized and indexed
millions of
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) records to create the largest collection of NARA
records online. The collection now includes more than 750 million names
and 70 million images in census, immigration and military records,
among many others.
Click here to see the collections. Search the more than 540 million names included and you could find invaluable information about your ancestors. You may also want to check out the
U.S. Federal Census Collection.
Find your family's heroes in the world's largest online
collection of military records, which includes more than 80 million
NARA records from all major U.S. wars and conflicts.
You can search for:
Many more databases are available
here.