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:
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:
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:
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://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):
Defense History Department (SHD):
https://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/en
The official portal for European data:
International Council on Archives:
Database of the Dead for WW1 France:
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/