>I can't imagine there are many army records at county hall, as >the army is operated by the federal government, not county >government. I think county hall has records of some military >discharges and not much more. I can confirm the above. My own military discharge is on file at the Erie County Clerk's office, but only because I brought it in and asked them to add it to their records, way back in 1946. This was done as a precaution in case proof of service was ever needed. George

Ditto what George said. My father did the same and on the back of his discharge is similar info that later appeared on the DD 214 forms. I thought I saw those records down in the basement of the courthouse where the immigration/naturalization index cards were housed, which was open to public searches. Kevin -----Original Message----- From: George Richmond <grichmon@localnet.com> To: NYERIE-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 09:42:52 -0400 Subject: Re: [NYERIE] military records >I can't imagine there are many army records at county hall, as >the army is operated by the federal government, not county >government. I think county hall has records of some military >discharges and not much more. I can confirm the above. My own military discharge is on file at the Erie County Clerk's office, but only because I brought it in and asked them to add it to their records, way back in 1946. This was done as a precaution in case proof of service was ever needed. George ==== NYERIE Mailing List ==== List Administrator: Dick Rose <dtrose@cox.net> My Genealogy: http://members.cox.net/dtrose/ Archived Messages at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx