Jessie, Apropos of your last, we in Australia seem to be lucky, or blessed, with archivists who have retained service records from both WW1 & WW2. Our War Museum & National Archives have and still do a wonderful job in that respect. It seems that the lack of computers has helped our cause. I have photo copies of service records of family members in both wars - from Attestation (at the entry to the service), to Service and Casualty, then Demobilization forms, (including in S & C forms the handwritten originals plus the later typed confirmation copies) . Interestingly the forms and procedures are identical for both wars. The financial records are different - I don't know that they were kept, each serviceman had a pay-book where records were maintained. Regards, from Sydney, Dave - I suspect an even more ancient, failed, computer programmer from Fortran 4 days. JbarL@aol.com wrote: > In the dark ages before modern computers we used keypunch cards and card > readers to collect data and to input data into main frame computers......if the > government still has the data on "hollerith " cards all is not lost. > > I wonder if anyone knows whether the financial records of the individual > service men are still in existence and if so, how does one access them? > > Jessie , Calif A very ancient computer programmer > > > ==== WORLDWAR2 Mailing List ==== > We are an international list! Please, always tell the list what country your ancestor is from. This helps all of us, especially you! If you give dates please help us understand the date you are referring to. For example: 4 Nov 1944 or Nov 4, 1944. > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > > > >