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.

You wouldn't think that genealogy websites would have much need to defend copyrights, but they're apparently quite zealous -- so long as you're interested in alien spaceships, at least. Ancestry.com ...

PROVO, UT--(Marketwired - Nov 11, 2013) - Fold3, the U.S. military record specialist in the Ancestry.com family of brands, today released The Honor Wall (www.fold3 ...

As America marks Veterans Day on Monday, Ancestry is opening its Fold3 archive free of charge. This makes more than 350 million military records from both World Wars available through midnight. It’s ...

Honor Wall site begins with pages created for more than 20 million servicemembers Creators encourage visitors to scan and post family heirloom photos of ancestors who served A subsidiary of ...

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – Genealogy enthusiasts now have access to a military genealogy database — Fold3 — at the Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library (CMCPL). Fold3 joins the genealogical database ...