Ancestory.com: Free Access to Military Personnel War records


	Ancestory.com: Free Access to Military Personnel War records

BobbyRutan

5-24-2007 1:37 PM

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military, geneology, ancestory, history, politics, republican, democrat, conservative, liberal, war

BobbyRutan says:

Thought people might be interested in looking up ancestors records, or friends of the family. Know I want to look up some great uncles and regular uncles.

Bet W's record is amongst the classified. Rats!

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5-24-2007 1:38 PM

BobbyRutan

After June 6, users can pay $155.40 a year for unlimited access to thousands of U.S. record databases, Sullivan said.

5-24-2007 1:40 PM

BobbyRutan

Direct Link to the military records search page at ancestory.om -> Link

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