Archive for the ‘World War II’ Category

Missing Airmen Report Footnote.com

As a serious genealogist there is no doubt that you have earned your position at the research table in many libraries and historical societies in many of your ancestral regions.

You most likely also have subscribed to various online services such as ancestry.com, genealogybank.com and various subscription genealogical societies.

I have written about footnote.com on this blog several times in the past but now I want to call your attention to the massive amount of new information that is available to you on footnote. You will also note that many of the groups of records that are online at footnote also allow you to interact with the original records by submitting your own notations and additional documents, photos and research notes.

News release:

Professional Genealogist in Upstate New York Locates only Surviving Sibling of World War II Parachutist Killed in Action 1945.

In Europe it is quite normal for some citizens to pay honor at the graves of American Service men who died in battle while helping to rid Europe of the Nazi menace. One such lady is Ms. Rianne Prevoo of Margraten, Holland, The Netherlands. Ms. Prevoo has taken it upon herself to visit and decorate the grave of one specific soldier, Pfc. Paul J. Scott, who was killed in the last part of the war in Europe.

Man born in Rochester, New York in 1925, served in U.S Navy during World War II, dies in Motel leaving a large sum of cash. Police are asking for help to locate a possible brother and daughter of John Richard Grant, who was discovered deceased in his motel room at the Sheldon Motel, in Sheldon, Sioux County, Iowa.

Sheriffs discovered some papers, the back of a gold watch and other belongings, and in two vinyl cassette tape cases was $263,000, most of it in $50 and $100 bills.