Wrap up the Second Lives series with reflections on tracing veterans’ lives after war. Learn why postwar stories matter in family history research.
Category - Second Lives: What Ancestors Did After the War
Lost to History: Veterans Who Vanished After Service
You find them in a draft card, a pension file, or a service roster—and then nothing. No census record. No marriage. No obituary. No trace. Every family historian has run into a veteran ancestor who...
Post-War Professions: Careers That Came from Military Skills
Some families have stories that begin with war but continue through decades of work that followed. A man who served in a supply battalion later owned a hardware store. A woman who drove an ambulance...