{"id":10133,"date":"2024-05-25T04:01:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T04:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/?p=10133"},"modified":"2024-05-27T04:03:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T04:03:40","slug":"finding-records-for-your-military-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/finding-records-for-your-military-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Records for Your Military Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we celebrate Memorial Day this weekend, finding our military ancestors in a variety of records can add extra meaning for us. Here are some resources in The Family History Guide that can help point you to the military records you need:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/project-9-united-statese1.html#goal-e1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>United States, Goal E1: Military Records<\/em><\/a> provides an introduction to U.S. military records and how and where to find them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/project-9-united-statese2.html#goal-e2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>United States, Goal E2: Military Records by Conflict<\/em><\/a> helps you learn about the major U.S. military conflicts, such as Revolutionary War, Civil War, World Wars I and II, Korean War, etc.<\/li>\n<li>In each of the U.S. State pages, <em>Goal 6: Military Records<\/em> has links to resources and record collections, including databases that may not be that well-known. Here is the example for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/project-9-us-california06.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/vault.html#us-mil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Vault<\/em><\/a> has links to over 100 additional articles and videos for general military records and records by conflict.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy Memorial Day to everyone!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cemetery-kid1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cemetery-kid1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cemetery-kid1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cemetery-kid1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we celebrate Memorial Day this weekend, finding our military ancestors in a variety of records can add extra meaning for us. Here are some resources in The Family History Guide that can help point you to the military records you need: United States, Goal E1: Military Records provides an introduction to U.S. military records and how and where to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[368,367],"class_list":["post-10133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-records","tag-memorial-day","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10136,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133\/revisions\/10136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}