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  • Charleen Vocca
    The SF 50: That Elusive Form Everyone Needs ASAP (Revised Nov 22)
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  • The SF 50: That Elusive Form Everyone Needs ASAP (Revised Nov 22)

    Charleen Vocca
    Charleen Vocca
    So many of us have been in this anxiety-inducing position - you’re applying for a job with the federal government’s USAJOBS website and are required to submit your most up-to-date SF 50 along with your application package. But where is i...
    • 8 Sep 2021
  • Pre-World War I US Army Service Records

    Jason, National Archives
    Jason, National Archives
    Introduction The records below are the main series used for documenting military service in the US Army prior to the time period just before World War I. Questions about the records listed in this blog as well as other pre-World War I Army and War De...
    • 13 Aug 2020
  • Students Create Tool Using Records to Help Navy Vietnam Veterans Get Benefits

    dcole
    dcole
    A group of University of Virginia graduate students created a project using data from U.S. Navy deck logs—held at the National Archives at College Park and available via the online catalog—to pinpoint locations of various ships during the...
    • 20 Jun 2019
  • Selective Service System Classification & Registration Records for 1940 – 1975

    Holly Rivet
    Holly Rivet
    Selective Service System Classification & Registration Records for 1940 – 1975General Information and DescriptionsAll Selective Service System Classification and Registration Records: 1940 – 1975 have been consolidated from state hold...
    • 3 Dec 2018
  • Researching Veterans: Personnel vs. Unit and Ship Records

    Lauren Van Zandt
    Lauren Van Zandt
    NAID 26398321When researching individual veterans, researchers have two types of records to pull information from: personnel records and operational records. Personnel files for individual soldiers- stored in the National Personnel Records Center (NP...
    • 7 Nov 2017
  • Requesting Old Military Service Records in person

    Cherkea Howery
    Cherkea Howery
    The National Archives in Washington DC maintains military records from independence to the beginning of the twentieth century.  Review what records we have available in our facilities in this Prologue article. When visiting Archives I, you are a...
    • 17 May 2017
  • Civil War Veterans' Pension Applications - A "Prologue" Article

    Alan Walker
    Alan Walker
    From the Summer 2010 issue of "Prologue":"A Reasonable Degree of Promptitude"
    • 8 Feb 2016