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WEBSITES, ARCHIVES AND RESOURCES FOR ONLINE HISTORY RESEARCH

USA RESEARCH LINKS & ARCHIVES:

 

The main repository for Veterans-related records is the National Archives and Records Administration. 

 

Frequently Requested Records Quick Guide:

https://www.archives.gov/research/genealogy 

 

USA National Archives Request Military and Veterans Service Records:

https://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records

 

Individual Deceased Personnel File (IDPFs) can be requested directly from National Archives-St. Louis:

https://www.archives.gov/st-louis

 

Keep in mind that there are not IDPFs for World War I; the equivalent is the WWI burial files here: 

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/595318

 

WWI burial cards, which give basic information of burials, have been fully digitized: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6943087

 

Visit National Archives Locations in the USA:

https://www.archives.gov/locations

 

Military Service or Veterans Pension Records:

https://www.va.gov/records/

 

Burial Records in the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemeteries:

https://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/ngl/index.jsp

 

West Point Graduate Archives:

https://www.westpointaog.org/findagrad

 

West Point Oral History Archives:

https://www.westpointcoh.org/

 

Women’s history:

https://www.womenshistory.org/about-us/contact-museum

 

https://www.womensmemorial.org/memorial/mission

 

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/its-your-war-too-women-wwii

 

World War I United States Military Records, 1917 to 1918 (wikipedia page) 

Tons of resources for all time periods from many non profit association archives and institutions: https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/World_War_I_United_States_Military_Records,_1917_to_1918#Auxiliary_Organizations

 

Governmentattic.org provides electronic copies of thousands of interesting Federal Government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

https://www.governmentattic.org

 

News archive:

https://www.newspapers.com/

 

First World War on Film - News & Research Updates on our Publications about the American Cinematographers and Films of World War I:

https://shootingthegreatwar.blogspot.com/

 

 

FRENCH/INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH LINKS & ARCHIVES:

Le service interministériel des Archives de France (SIAF):

https://francearchives.fr/en/

https://www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/

 

National Center for Educational Documentation (CNDP, now Canopé):

https://www.reseau-canope.fr/pour-memoire/accueil/

 

Department of Heritage, Memory and Archives (DPMA):

https://www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr/en/legal-information

 

Defense Communication and Audiovisual Production Establishment (ECPAD):

https://www.ecpad.fr/

 

Defense History Department (SHD):

https://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/en


The official portal for European data:

https://data.europa.eu/en

 

International Council on Archives:

https://www.ica.org/en

 

Database of the Dead for WW1 France:

https://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/fr/arkotheque/client/mdh/base_morts_pour_la_france_premiere_guerre/index.php

 

Civil status documents (birth, marriage, death certificates):

https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/N359

 

Birth certificate: request for full copy or extract:

https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F1427

 

Marriage certificate: request for full copy or extract:

https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F1432

 

Death certificate: request for a full copy:

https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F1444

 

Death Records France:

https://www.deces-en-france.fr/

 

HERITAGE INSTITUTIONS

 

Museum of General Leclerc de Hauteclocque and of The Liberation of Paris – Jean Moulin Museum of the City of Paris:

https://www.museeliberation-leclerc-moulin.paris.fr/en

 

History Committee of the City of Paris

 

Museum of the Order of the Liberation

 

Center for the History of the Resistance and of Deportation (CHRD) in Lyon

 

Shoah Memorial

 

National Library of France (BnF)

 

Center for Study and Research on the Loiret Internment Camps (CERCIL)

 

Regional Center for Resistance and Freedom (Thouars)

 

Museum of Art and History of Judaism (MAHJ)

 

Library of Contemporary International Documentation (BDIC)

 

Museum of Resistance and Deportation – Citadel of Besançon

 

Memorial of Caen

 

Museum of Resistance and Deportation of 'Isère (Grenoble)

 

Internment and Deportation Memorial – Camp de Royallieu (Compiègne)

 

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington (USA) Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials (Germany)

 

Institute for Resistance Studies in Turin (Italy)

 

Breendonk Memorial (Belgium), etc. .

 

Associations and Foundations  :

 

National Association of Families of the French Resistance's Shot and Slain and Their Friends (ANFFMRFA)

 

French Buchenwald-Dora Association

 

National Federation of Combatants

 

Prisoners of War and Combatants of Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco (FNCPG/CATM )

 

National Federation of Resistant and Patriotic Deportees and Internees (FNDIRP)

 

The Companions of November 8, 1942 – Acts of Resistance: Memory and Research

 

Foundation for the Memory of Deportation (AFMD)

 

Foundation of the Resistance

 

Charles de Gaulle Foundation

 

Fondation de la France Libre

 

Foundation for the memory of the Shoah

 

Le Souvenir Français

 

Foundation for the Memory of the Deportation

http://www.bddm.org/