On the eve of Memorial Day, Ancestry.com is making its entire U.S. Military Collection — the largest online collection of American military records — available for free to the public. From May 20 through May 31, people can log on to http://www.ancestry.com/military to view more than 100 million names and 700 titles and databases of military records, the majority of which come from NARA, from all 50 U.S. states.
They list some of their Feature Databases which are:
- U.S. Navy Cruise Books – Yearbook-style books detailing sailors and others on board U.S. navy ships, dating from 1940
I have been using the Rootsweb County pages almost since its inception. Mainly with mixed results. Some County Coordinators (henceforth abbreviated as CC) do a fabulous job putting relevant information on the web, while others take the CC position and do nothing then disappear. The rest do an average job keeping the pages updated.There is a core group of CC’s that have been there for years and are really dedicated to the rootsweb philosophy of keeping Rootsweb free to all. Some have many websites in order to keep some counties from being abandoned. I have hosted a site or two over the years and it takes a certain amount of dedicated time in order to keep things fresh and active. I salute these people who have now or in the past been a CC of the rootsweb sites.
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