From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Wed Mar 22 13:47:23 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 k2MKlNjb001789; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:47:23 -0700 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 k2MKlLo4018657 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:47:21 -0700 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 k2MIGLFI002782 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:16:21 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k2MIGLrE002781 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:16:21 -0500 Received: from bw-10.mtpinos.com (bw-10.mtpinos.com [63.173.235.138]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k2MHeqFI002605 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:40:52 -0500 Received: from bw-10.mtpinos.com (bw-10.mtpinos.com [127.0.0.1]) by bw-10.mtpinos.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k2MKBfW7022333 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:11:41 -0800 Received: (from karen@localhost) by bw-10.mtpinos.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id k2MKBeta022331 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:11:40 -0800 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 k2MK7wjb019408 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:07:58 -0700 Received: from imo-m18.mx.aol.com (imo-m18.mx.aol.com [64.12.138.208]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2MK7u0K029556 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:07:56 -0700 Received: from RslJo8@aol.com by imo-m18.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.3.) id e.313.ce4d04 (4230) for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:07:49 -0500 (EST) From: RslJo8@aol.com Message-ID: <313.ce4d04.31530894@aol.com> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:07:48 EST To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5301 X-Spam-Flag: NO Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Subject: [ROOTS-L] military Personnel Records, St. Louis, Mo. My mother sent in a request for her fathers World War I records, which I might add Gretchen informed me that Leon Mckinley Wise was indeed in the military according to the 1930 Laramie, Wyoming census, listed as Laon Wise. Here is an important exerpt of the letter my mom received. "The record needed to answer your inquiry is not in our files. If the record were here on July 12, 1973 it would have been in an area that suffered the most damage in the fire on that date and may have been destroyed. The fire destroyed the major portion of records of Army military personnel for the period 1912 through 1959, and records of Air Force personnel with surnames Hubbard through Z. for the period 1947 through 1963. Fortunately, there are alternate records sources that often contain information which can be used to reconstruct service record data lost in the fire; however, complete records cannot be reconstructed." you can contact them online at _http://vetrecs.archive.gov_ (http://vetrecs.archive.gov) . We did get verification of him being in the service so the picture my mom has of the man in the WW I uniform is indeed her father. thanx Rebecca Bral