I recently wrote that I had sent for my paternal grandfather's military service record. I received it last week, and spent this evening running the 251 pages through a scanner.
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| Cover letter - click to enlarge. |
Here's just one quick reason why this is a good idea and you should do this if you have a close relative who was a military service member:
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| Beneficiary Slip, click to enlarge. |
This Beneficiary Slip contains the names and addresses of the service member's next of kin - who gets the death benefits if he is killed on duty. In this case, it was his family - wife and children. The address is where they lived at the time, which I had from other sources, but would be quite valuable information to help search if I had not already had it. There are a number of these slips in the service record, covering a number of years. This could help document family moves. It can also help document children - names, and when they were born if one shows up on a later slip that was not on an earlier one.
Treasure Chest Thursday – create a post with the main focus being a family treasure, an heirloom or even an every-day item important to your family. A special thanks to Leslie Ann Ballou of
Lost Family Treasures for suggesting Treasure Chest Thursday as a daily blogging theme!
(Blurb shamelessly stolen from Thomas McEntee at
Geneabloggers!)
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