From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu Aug 31 17:37:13 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7VNbDjb029835; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:37:13 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7VNb9Ev026109 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:37:09 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k7VKuWFI031482 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:56:32 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k7VKuWte031481 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:56:32 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k7VGEXFI030913 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:14:34 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k7VIsxbS026725 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:54:59 -0600 X-Envelope-From: iowagob1@juno.com Thu Aug 31 12:54:59 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7VIsxjb026716 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:54:59 -0600 Received: from m6.nyc.untd.com (m6.nyc.untd.com [64.136.22.69]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k7VIsrs9026285 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:54:54 -0600 Received: from m6.nyc.untd.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by m6.nyc.untd.com with SMTP id AABCRQNC5AJV7ALJ for (sender ); Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:54:19 -0700 (PDT) X-UNTD-OriginStamp: RU5GAULu9fXrom734xUanOU2rJoozt9LmmTd5OVfpwDWAVn7yVEmIQ== Received: (from iowagob1@juno.com) by m6.nyc.untd.com (jqueuemail) id LY5GCJQ7; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:53:59 PDT To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:53:52 -0400 Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Finding Merchant Marine Records Message-ID: <20060831.145353.1580.0.IowaGob1@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 4.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-22,24-38 X-Juno-Att: 0 X-Juno-RefParts: 0 From: iowagob1@juno.com X-ContentStamp: 10:5:2822138038 X-MAIL-INFO: 18dd98dcdd38f8f838c8f8c9bd7c9dbcb5bc9d39856805317ce8dd312831d1a89da1f5f8dddd68e9fce5e9b11919b1081965181c5d096d095dc99129c5891c1d1525491c4915cc6d58993599cd05bccd7575bc759d28ec413c4928493c8d0c08a9000099 X-UNTD-Peer-Info: 127.0.0.1|localhost|m6.nyc.untd.com|iowagob1@juno.com X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com The U.S. Coast Guard has Merchant Marine records. Check out their web site at: http://www.uscg.mil/welcome.html http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/faqs/faqs.html (history) If he was an officer inquire of the Merchant Marine Academy at: http://www.usmma.edu/ US Merchant Marine Academy 300 Steamboat Road Kings Point, NY 11024 Alumni Services 516-482-5274 Email: usmmaaf@aol.com Fax: 516-482-5308 On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:13:03 -0700 "Yvonne Holste" writes: > Where would I start looking for Merchant Marine records from WWII?? > My > grandfather worked on a cargo ship between England, the US and > Europe in the > late 20's, 30's and early 40's. His ship was hit by a German > torpedo off of > Greenland and he recouped in a British hospital before being sent > home to > NY. I don't know much more than that. Any help would be much > appreciated. > > Yvonne > >