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I have used the burial cards to help verify the names and numbers reported by the ABMC. Searching the data allowed me to identify a soldier killed who was previously unidentified in my research.
American WWI Burial CardsAbout American WWI Burial Cards
This card register documents the death and burial information of over 78,000 American soldiers in World War I. Each card contains the name of the individual who died, the unit they were assigned to, the nature of their death and the burial location(s) of the soldier, up to and including their final resting place.
Information from these cards will be useful to researchers, genealogists and historians interested in the personal history of World War I.
The index created from the first task will be made freely available to the public on Fold3.com and will link directly to the original card images. Subsequent tasks will collect more detailed data such as cause and date of death and initial and final burial places.
Any public entity interested in working with this data should contact the research team through the contact links on this site.
Digital archive hosted by U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6943087)
Record Group 92: Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, 1774 - 1985
Series: Card Register of Burials of Deceased American Soldiers, 1917 - 1922
NAID: 6943087