With Memorial Day weekend honoring those who have served their country in the armed services, people may want to find out more about their family’s military history. Services and materials are ...

This week, we decided to tackle a common question that we get from people researching their roots: Suggested Reading It’s The Party of The Year! The Root 100 Gala, Honoring These Black Americans, Is ...

With Veterans Day arriving this month, there is probably no more appropriate time for a genealogist to look for information on their military ancestors. Appropriately enough, FamilySearch checks in ...

In this photo provided by the National Archives and Records Administration, records from the sixth floor of the Military Personnel Records Center in Overland, Mo., near St. Louis, are recovered months ...

What if the last words carried across the Pacific held fewer answers than the silence that followed? Newly released ...

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.

EXCLUSIVE: Two top House Republicans are frustrated with the Department of Defense over its delay in providing answers to a series of questions concerning its improper release of military records ...

The apocalyptic scene is still burned into Mike Buttery’s memory 50 years later: Black smoke billowing from the top floor of the Military Personnel Records Center; bits of paper wafting through the ...

Newly uncovered military records obtained by CBS News may explain rare cancers and other illnesses among U.S. servicemembers deployed to an overseas base after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The 2001 ...