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Here Come the Doughboys! (Webinar)

Tracing Your WWI Military Ancestors

Learn strategies and resources for researching your WWI military ancestors, with sessions on service records, nursing, and alien naturalization files.

Lecture Schedule:

Reconstructing Your Soldier's WWI Experience with Tina Beaird 9:30 am-11 am
Break 11-11:30
I Have My Ancestor's WWI Record - Now What? with Debra Dudek 11:30 am-12:30 pm
Lunch 12:30-1 pm
The Spirit of St. Louis: WWI Records atthe NPRC with Tina Beaird 1pm-2:30 pm
Break 2:30-2:45 pm
Allied with the Allies & Aliens in the Army with Debra Dudek 2:45 pm-3:45 pm
Break 3:45 pm-4 pm
Pandemic 1918: Combating the Spanish Influenza During the Great War with Tina Beaird 4pm - 5 pm

The program will be available as a free streaming webinar on YouTube! Visit fountaindale.org/youtube. A recording of each session will be available for free for three years on YouTube.

Additional information and handouts available online at fountaindalegenealogy.org.

This program is part of World War I and America, a two-year national initiative of The Library of America presented in partnership with The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the National World War I Museum and Memorial, and other organizations, with generous support from The National Endowment for the Humanities.

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