– By Ann Cushman
Information gleaned from Air Force Sergeants Magazine and US Dept. of Veterans Affairs:
The uniformed services of the U.S. are the: Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service, and the Commissioned Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Statistics for some of America’s previous wars:
| Members | Deaths |
| American Revolution (1775 – 1783) | |
| 217,000 | 4,435 |
| War of 1812 (1812 – 1815) | |
| 286,730 | 2,260 |
| Indian Wars (Approx. 1817 – 1898) | |
| 106,000 | 1,000 |
| Mexican Wars (1846 – 1848) | |
| 78,718 | 1,733 |
| Civil War (Union) (1861 – 1865) | |
| 2,213,363 | 140,414 |
| Civil War (Confederate) | |
| 1,050,000 | 74,524 |
| Spanish – American War (1898 – 1902) | |
| 306,760 | 385 |
| World War I (1917 – 1918) | |
| 4,734,991 | 53,402 |
If you missed any of this year’s episodes of “Who Do You Think You Are?” you can catch up by going to nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are.
Gleanings from the NEHGS e-newsletter:
An article was carried about mocavo.com. It is the world’s largest free genealogy search engine. It targets genealogical websites and automatically removes results from things like Facebook.
Another article talked about digital technology threatening family history. We all know about 8mm to VHS to the next new thing, etc. If you don’t keep copying you can’t see unless you have the original. The article notes that the city of Lowell, MA is digitizing all their vital records, etc. The originals are then going to be destroyed.
Being the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, there were several sites noted that had information or links to other helpful sites.
- The African American Civil War Museum www.afroamcivilwar.org
- American Civil War Home Page www.civilwarhome.com
- Civil War Home Page www.civil-war.net
- Civil War Rosters www.civilwarroster.com
- Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System www.itd.nps.gov/cwss
This contains the names of 6.3 million soldiers/sailors, names of those imprisoned in Ft. McHenry and Andersonville, Regimental information, and lists of men who served in the units.