American WWI Burial Cards

WWI BURIAL CARDS OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS

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 information about each soldier's service, death, burial and emergency contact.

Before making the data available to the public the data will be processed using OpenRefine and reconcile.py. Quality control checks will be performed by members of the Meuse-Argonne.com Facebook group.

Any public entity interested in working with this data should contact the research team through the contact links on this site.

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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