Remembrance Journal
Notes from our researchers on military history, remembrance, and the practical work of tracing a relative who rests on foreign soil.
A step-by-step guide to tracing an American serviceman who rests or is memorialized in one of the overseas military cemeteries.
Margaret Donovan · May 18, 2016
Between 1930 and 1933 the United States sent thousands of grieving mothers and widows across the Atlantic to stand at their sons' and husbands' graves.
Sarah L. Abbott · May 8, 2016
Service numbers, ranks, unit designations and decorations can baffle newcomers. Here is how to read what a record is really telling you.
Thomas R. Clarke · March 2, 2016