Researching 20th Century veterans is especially difficult as a fire destroyed millions of Official Military Personnel Files in 1973. This class will look at other ways to find the stories of the WWI, WII, Korea, and peacetime veterans in our families.
(The fire at the National Personnel Records Center on July 12, 1973, near Saint Louis, Missouri, pictured above.)
About Our Speaker
Sara Cochran is a full-time professional genealogist with over twenty-five years of research experience. Her research has taken her to nearly every State in the USA and Ireland, Italy, Austria, and Britain. She holds a Boston University Genealogical Research Certificate, a Bachelor's Degree in Library Science, and is an alumnus of the ProGen Study Group. She especially enjoys breaking down brick walls for her clients, discovering the stories of black sheep ancestors, and helping individuals preserve their photographic legacy.
This program is not sponsored or endorsed by L.A. County Library.