Is anyone else having trouble accessing ancestry.com right now? On 5/24/07, patricia.manning@comcast.net <patricia.manning@comcast.net> wrote: > > Saw this article earlier today; am only posting part. I know it will be of > interest to all. > > Pat > > WASHINGTON - For every generation in this country there has been a war. > And with wars come millions of records that can shed light on family > history, detailing everything from the color of soldiers' eyes to what their > neighbors may have said about them. > > On Thursday, Ancestry.com unveils more than 90 million U.S. war records > from the first English settlement at Jamestown in 1607 through the Vietnam > War's end in 1975. The site also has the names of 3.5 million U.S. > soldiers killed in action, including 2,000 who died in Iraq. > > "The history of our families is intertwined with the history of our > country," Tim Sullivan, chief executive of Ancestry.com, said in a > telephone interview. "Almost every family has a family member or a loved one > that has served their country in the military." > > The records, which can be accessed free until the anniversary of D-Day on > June 6, came from the National Archives and Records Administration and > include 37 million images, draft registration cards from both world wars, > military yearbooks, prisoner-of-war records from four wars, unit rosters > from the Marine Corps from 1893 through 1958, and Civil War pension records, > among others. > > The popularity of genealogy in the U.S. has increased steadily alongside > the Internet's growth. Specialized search engines on sites like > Ancestry.com, Genealogy.com and FamilySearch.com, along with general > search portals like Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc., have helped fuel interest. > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > POLANDBORDERSURNAMES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Terissa Schor terissa.schor@gmail.com