Just in time for Memorial Day, RootsWeb (http://www.rootsweb.com), the Internet’s oldest and largest genealogy community, has created a new Web site to pay tribute to those who served in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II.

&uot;The Greatest Generation: World War II Stories&uot; (http://www.rootsweb.com/WWII) is a place where veterans and their relatives can post narratives and biographies. In addition, although the emphasis is on World War II, submissions are welcome for veterans of Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf War. You may even post photographs.

A &uot;Lost and Found Window&uot; provides a venue to search for old war buddies and memorials to loved ones can be posted in the &uot;Veterans’ Garden.&uot;

There are also links to numerous other World War II pages. &uot;Dad’s War&uot; offers tips on how to conduct research on your ancestors who are war veterans. You will also find such key resources as military records from the Army Military History Institute, the Navy Historical Center and the Air Force Museum.

Links to two offerings from RootsWeb’s Guide to Tracing Family Trees (http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide) are provided. These are easy-to-follow how-to lessons to help search for military records, both in the U.S. and worldwide.

RootsWeb’s Missing Links – which along with its companion publication, The RootsWeb Review, is the largest circulated genealogy publication in the world – provides three helpful articles: &uot;World War II Memories,&uot; &uot;Finding Your Father’s World War II Story Scrapbook,&uot; and &uot;World War II: An American Scrapbook.&uot;

So while you make plans for the Memorial Day holiday, drop by this new RootsWeb site and take time to look at the stories told by and about the men and women who served our country. Add a little bit of your own family history to site or do a little research. There may be all sorts of hidden treasures just waiting for you!

DOES ANYONE KNOW….

n Kay McKinnon (12 Avery Circle, Jackson, Miss. 39211, email unama@attglobal.net) is seeking information about &uot;MILLIE&uot; E. TURNER who was born about 1858 in Sumter County, Ala. Millie was the daughter of Elizabeth PRESTWOOD and James R. Turner. The family moved to the Mississippi Delta about 1875. Millie supposedly lived, married and reared a family in Belzoni, Miss. Her two older brothers, Austin Richard and James Harvey Turner, and parts of their families are buried in the Belzoni cemetery. Millie’s two younger sisters, Edna J. Turner JOINER LANGFORD and Julia Rebecca Turner HILL, are buried in Starkville, Miss. Millie has yet to be found. Does anyone have any information about this Turner family?

n Rebecca Roberts (2941 Fleet Road, Columbus, Ohio 43232-5247, email Honeybz@ee.net) is looking for information on a PRATER family listed in the 1870 Itawamba County, Miss. census. The listing includes a Franklin Prater (32), Jane Prater (43), Cicero (12), Louis (8) and Malinda (5). All were born in Alabama. Louis later married and moved to Monroe County, Miss. to raise his family. This Louis may be Ms Roberts’ great-great-grandfather. Can any reader provide more information on the family?

n Elsie Clemons (4000 Fieldcrest Drive A302, Montgomery, Ala. 36111-3123, e-mail-elsiebc@zebra.net) is searching for information on a DAVID STEPHENS/STEVENS. He was born in South Carolina, was in Oglethorpe County, Ga in the early 1800’s and moved to Calhoun County, Miss. before 1860. He later moved to Lafayette County, Miss. where he died. He had at least two sons, John and Christopher. Does any reader have information on this line?

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