If you have an old military serial number the information on your father is probably available. There are several archives. Probably someone can be more specific but I ran a search at www.google.com using "US Military Personnel Archives" (without quotation marks) as a search argument which produced over 47,000 links in less than a second. Try it. Google is one of the best search engines there is. Henry M. Whitney (hwhitney@cpcug.org) ----- Original Message ----- From: "vttrails" <vttrails@adelphia.net> To: <WHITNEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000 1:45 AM Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Military Records > This is a shot in the dark and not related to any Whitneys but I thought it worth a try. Does anyone know how I can find or where I can go to find someone's( who may still be living) mitiltary record if I don't have a social security number and extremely limited info. on them? I'm trying to find my biological father/father's family and don't know much as I never knew him. Although I don't have a SS # I do have another number for him that I've been told was used by the military prior to the use of SS # 's. > > In a more related vein if anyone has info on Private Abel Whitney(of Tunbridge,Vt) of the 9th Infantry from Vermont and in regards to his death from starvation at Andersonville Prisoner of War (Civil War) Camp in Georgia please let me know. I'd be most grateful. > Thanks, > Noreen LaTour > >