Hi Debrah, I just emailed a retired National Archives employee John Scroggins. He is also a friend who has helped with our endeavor to start a county archives in IL. He gave me this information on WWII veteran records. I uploaded here: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/war.htm#ww2-records To start working on your husband's ancestral lines, you need the veteran's death certificate (not sure what service does for death certs if killed outside of the country), marriage certificate, conversations with family about him and his parents. Start with your husband. Get all the details about your husband on his birth cert then his parents and work back. Genealogy research most of the time is slow and tedious. Lucky if you can move very fast. And, not tedious for "us genealogy nuts."<g> Since I coordinate a county in the USGenWeb Project, I am biased. But some counties don't have much on their sites because we are volunteers and many volunteers also work fulltime. http://www.usgenweb.org To get to the states then to the counties in fast text form: http://www.usgenweb.org/statelinkstext.html Censuses are going online all the time: http://www.rootsweb.com/~cenfiles/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/index.htm Cyndi's List of genealogy links are in the thousands: http://www.Cyndi'sList.com The Mormon church has a search site online: http://www.familysearch.org/Search/searchcatalog.asp The LDS (Mormon) church has filmed most county records. That means they gone to about 99% of the counties of the US and filmed the court records. They are working in other countries. You can go to your nearest LDS (Mormon) churches Family History Center (FHC) - check your phone book for the nearest FHC. .....and order films from Salt Lake City to view at the local church center. Film rental is like $3.75 to keep for 6 weeks at the church and you go to the church to view your films when they come in. The LDS has put up a search site for family lines (other people have submitted but many may not be accurate or not proven but a good place to start: http://www.familysearch.org/ All the mailing lists like this one: John Fuller has made available this mailing list: http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail.html Two good readings here on how to get started in researching ancestors: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/m_steps.htm Good luck and holler if you need help. Gloria At 07:54 PM 2/22/2002 -0600, you wrote: >Hello, >My husbands father was one that was killed during WWII. He was >buried in >Italy then returned to the States at a later time. His name was Homer >Frazier. We have just recently began looking for his family >history. Found a >couple of sites on the internet where folks had quiet a bit of >infromtaion >but can't recall what the address is at the moment. >Debrah Cantrell Frazier >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Carol" <campgreer1@webtv.net> >To: <FRAZIER-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 5:14 PM >Subject: [FRAZIER] Re: FRAZIER-D Digest V02 #14 > > > > i read some were there was a frazier that had died in the > second w.w.. > > i am sure i saw it on the list among the guys that died during that > > time. have to go thru some sites to fine it. later.. > > ------------------ Gloria Frazier <glofra@earthlink.net> Macoupin County ILGenWeb County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/macoupin.htm Maillist manager for FRAZIER-L and ILMADISO-L