HI All, > I am forward a message received from another list that I am on. I > hope you all check this out. I didn't know that it existed. I went > into the WWII Prisoners of War Data File and found a Daniel Pridemore > from Lincoln county WV. Very likely part of my mother's family. I > have to do some more checking to be sure which Daniel it might be. > > Also, since I knew that my Mom's next door neighbor had been a POW, I > checked for his name and I found it. > Jane > > ___ > Hello all: > | > | Has anyone checked the National Archives website recently? I was just > poking| around there and ran across the Access to Archival Databases > (AAD) > program. The AAD includes a file called the Electronic Army Serial > Number Merged > File, ca. 1938 - 1946. It has records for close to 9 million > enlistees in the > U.S. Army. You can search for individual names or by state and > county. I > searched for the enlistees from Erie county in the main enlistee file and > retrieved 61,327 records --- too many to download or view. Note that > to search by > geographic area you need to select the state and county from the code > list --- don't type in the geographic area names. I found my > grandfather and his > brothers though by typing in TRONOLONE with the State code New York > (29) and County > Erie (029). > > The website is http://www.archives.gov/aad/index.html --- click on > SEARCH, > then select ALL SERIES, the Army file is the sixth entry down. > > Check it out! > Ted