With Memorial Day weekend honoring those who have served their country in the armed services, people may want to find out more about their family’s military history. Services and materials are ...

What are the best resources for finding records on African-American veterans of the 19th and 20th centuries? Military draft, enrollment and service records can provide a gold mine of information about ...

AncestryDNA offers DNA kits and memberships to explore family history, including military records. Memberships range from $69 to $149 during the Memorial Day sale, offering varying levels of access to ...

Correspondent photo / Nancilynn Gatta Tim Seman, president of the Mahoning County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society, gestures to his laptop during his presentation “Military Genealogy: ...

One group of records that can provide a lot of detail on an ancestor’s life is military records. These sources begin with some limited militia records from colonial times up to the present day.