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"These began as around 60 amazing, handwritten burial registers -- more than 9,000 pages of American heroes, where they are buried and other details," says Dan Jones, Vice President of Content for Ancestry.com. "And today they can be searched by individual names and viewed online on Ancestry.com, allowing family historians everywhere greater insight into the military experience of ancestors as well as notable personalities."
Highlights of the collection include:
From the 1860s until the mid-20th century, in some places, U.S. Army personnel tracked burials at national cemeteries and military posts in registers that included name, rank, company/regiment, date and cause of death, age, grave number, and original place of burial in the case of re-interments. The U.S. Army was responsible for all national cemeteries from the 1860s until the early 1930s, and they were responsible for depositing most burial registers at NARA. In 1973, the Army transferred 82 national cemeteries to what is now VA, where the National Cemetery Administration (NCA) oversees them.
Concerned for the fragility of these documents and wanting to expand public access to the contents, NCA scanned about 60 handwritten ledgers to produce more than 9,344 pages of high-quality digital images. Then in 2011, NCA initiated a partnership with Ancestry.com to index the ledgers so users can search them easily. At no cost to the government or taxpayers, Ancestry.com spent close to 3,000 hours indexing NCA's ledgers records to make them searchable by name.
The ledgers are one of two new Ancestry.com collections, U.S. Burial Registers, Military Posts and National Cemeteries, 1862-1960 and U.S. Headstone Applications, 1925-1963, both launching for Veterans Day 2012. More than 500,000 individuals are included in these records.
"We are excited to be able to share this wealth of primary documentation," said VA's Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs Steve L. Muro. "With the help of Ancestry.com, we have opened the doors to thousands of service members' histories through the information contained in these burial ledgers."
The Ancestry.com partnership supports NCA's commemoration of the Civil War 150th anniversary (2011-2015). More than 72 of NCA's 131 national cemeteries originated with the Civil War. More than 3.7 million Americans, including Veterans of every war and conflict -- from the Revolutionary War to the Global War on Terror -- are buried in VA national cemeteries in 39 states.
About Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Inc. (NASDAQ: ACOM) is the world's largest online family history resource, with approximately 2 million paying subscribers. More than 11 billion records have been added to the site in the past 15 years. Ancestry users have created more than 40 million family trees containing approximately 4 billion profiles. In addition to its flagship site, Ancestry.com offers several localized Web sites designed to empower people to discover, preserve and share their family history.
For media inquiries: Heather Erickson Ancestry.com 801-705-7104 herickson@ancestry.com
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