This info has also been added to our "What's New" link on the main OKGenWeb page. --- Linda Haas Davenport <lhaasdav@cox.net> wrote: > From: "Linda Haas Davenport" <lhaasdav@cox.net> > Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 04:07:03 -0500 > To: USGENWEB-SW-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [USGenWeb-SW] New Veterans Affairs web site and cemetery locator > > VA has made it easier and faster for the public to get answers about family > history, old war buddies or famous war heroes. The agency put on the Web 3.2 > > million records for veterans buried at 120 national cemeteries since the > Civil War. > > The VA's Nationwide Gravesite Locator, at http://www.cem.va.gov, also has > records for some state veterans cemeteries and burials in Arlington National > Cemetery since 1999. > Joe Nosari, VA's deputy chief information officer for Memorial Affairs, said > the records used to be on paper and microfilm. Private companies have put > some of the information online and charged for it, but the VA information is > free, he said. > Naporlee, of Spokane, Wash., also learned her grandfather served with the > Army's 161 DB unit, enlisting June 24, 1918. He was honorably discharged > December 17, 1918. > The VA's gravesite navigator includes names, dates of birth and death, > military service dates, service branch and rank if known, cemetery > information and > grave location in the cemetery. The VA will withhold some information, such > as > next of kin, for privacy purposes. > The site will be updated daily. Annually, about 80,000 veterans are buried > at > national cemeteries. > The VA also hopes to add records for veterans whose families requested grave > > markers from the VA. Those markers may go to private cemeteries or > cemeteries > overseas. > > Search site > http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/servlet/NGL_v1 > > This site was really busy yesterday and people reported it timed out off and > on. > > Linda > homepage: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas > MarionCoAR: http://www.rootsweb.com/~armarion/ > TulsaCoOK: http://www.rootsweb.com/~oktulsa2 > > > > > > ==== USGENWEB-SW Mailing List ==== > The CC representatives for the SW-SC region are currently Phyllis Rippee > & Bettie Wood. The SC representative is Larry Flescher. > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html