----- Original Message ----- From: Deanna Smith To: MICOST-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 5:36 PM Subject: National Personal Records I notice on your site that it is suggested when one is searching for a person who served in WW1 or WW2 to contact the National Personal Records Center in St. Louis. The response to my letters there have been that since there was a major fire there in 1972, the Military Service records for these Wars were burned and other then records for some officers, nothing exists any longer. Imagine storing Historical Government material in a building that isn't fire-proof! Deanna