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this was in This Tuesdays July 27th Paper.
Childress
Alvin Roch Childress Jr. age 89 of Charlottsville, VA died Monday July
26, 2004 in a local hospital. Born May 22, 1915 in New Orlens. He was th
son of the late Alvin R Childress and Belle Smart Childress and nephew
of Irme Smart, Hew was proceeded in death by son Alvin R, Rcoky Childress
III, a sister Catherine Meler and 2 brothers, Billl and Joe Childress.
Al was a graduate of Loyola University and a well known athlete. He
served with the United Stats Navy during World War 2 and was founder of
CORBESCO of New Orleans. He is survived by his wife Phyllis Patterson
Childress of Charlottesville VA , several children A private memorial
service will be held in Charlottesville VA with entombment in Lake Lawn
Mausoleum New Orleans at a later date. Services entrusted to Hill and
Wood Funeral Home, Charlottsville, VA.
DOD will preserve veterans' personnel files Indiana Jack, perhaps this will
help your research.
Redd
DOD will preserve veterans' personnel files
By Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Wednesday, July 14, 2004
ARLINGTON, Va. - U.S. government officials have decided to preserve the
personnel files of every military member since 1885, and to allow public
access to such records 62 years after official discharge or separation.
An agreement designating these files as "permanent records" was signed
Thursday by Archivist of the United States John Carlin and David Chu,
undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness.
The National Archives and Records Administration will maintain the records
"forever," according to Greg Pomicter, assistant for operations in the
NARA's Office of Regional Records Services.
Protecting personnel files is crucial because they contain the legal
documents veterans and their families need in order to claim entitlements
that may have accrued from military service, Pomicter said in a Monday
telephone interview from NARA's Suitland, Md., headquarters.
Before the agreement was signed, the U.S. government would release only
basic information, such as the dates of service. Only the member himself, if
alive, or next-of-kin, if the member was dead, had access to the entire
file, Pomicter said.
Under the new policy, the public will have access to records 62 years after
a servicemember's official discharge or separation - "a wealth of
information" that will appeal to a variety of individuals, Pomicter said.
After a six-month survey of records requests, archivists found that the
nature of requests moved from administrative to historical between 56 years
and 62 years after the servicemember's separation, and went with the higher
number to be safe.
People searching for genealogical data will find that the records "give you
a tremendous amount of family history," Pomicter said.
Personnel files contain medical information, performance reports and
disciplinary actions, as well as birth, marriage and death records, and
adoption records and visas for family history purposes.
Academics and other researchers, meanwhile, will be able to use the records
to reconstruct all sorts of information, such as the demographic composition
of a specific military unit and how it has changed over time, Pomicter said.
But if a servicemember is still alive after 62 years, the Privacy Act of
1974 allows NAR officials to "redact," or black out, certain information,
such as Social Security numbers, Pomicter said.
"If we have any indication that person is alive, we'll be very careful
what's released ... to ensure that there's no unwarranted invasion of a
person's privacy," Pomicter said.
It will take at least a decade for government archivists to transfer all 56
million eligible records to the public domain, however.
That's because before 1960, DOD did not necessarily file its personnel
records by date of discharge, requiring archivists to sort through the
jackets one-by-one to discern whether they meet the 62-year age requirement,
Pomicter said.
The first major block of files - nearly 1 million personnel records for
sailors and Marines that date back to World War I - will be released this
fall, Pomicter said.
To learn how to search records maintained by the National Archives and
Records Administration including records that have been archived
electronically, go to: www.archives.gov.
My Dad, James Childress is a WWII Navy vet. His boat was sunk by kamakazi
pilots in the Pacific. He would be happy to participate. Please let me know
how we should contact you for this.
Betty Childress Moderno
Incidently, Dawn & Jim Childress of Asheville, North Carolina are
celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary this weekend.
There is a Childress family reunion at Jellystone Park, Cherokee, NC this
weekend, July 10-11.
Pictures will be posted if anyone is interested.
----- Original Message -----
From: <INJACK1(a)aol.com>
To: <CHILDRESS-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 11:03 PM
Subject: [Childress-L] CHILDERS/CHILDRESS VETERANS PROJECT
> Given currently have a lot of time on my hands due to an early
> retirement or semi-retirement I have decided to embark on some new
projects that being
> a complete listing of Childers/Chuildress veterans from ALL WARS in an
effort
> to honour in some small way all the kin that gave so much to provide the
> freedoms we have today. Being July 4th, I can think of no better day to
begin this
> project.
> Those men that died in WW2 will be the first to be posted, however
> finding those that went to war and returned will require some help from
all my kin
> and readers of these newsgroups.
> I also have a questioinaire for all those WW2 vets I would like to
> collect to present an oral family history. So if you have a
Childers/Childress
> relative that served in WW2 and you have a chance ask them please do. Or
if they
> would like to participate just drop me a line and I'll sent the form.
> Or if you have a family war story I would love to hear it and include
it
> on the new site. Please lend me a hand in this effort, it will benifit
all now
> and in the future to record these things. Over a thousand WW2 vets are
dying
> every day don't let this family history die with them.
>
>
>
>
> INDIANA JACK
> CHILDERS/CHILDRESS CEMETERY DIRECTORY CHILDERS/CHILDRESS CIVIL WAR SITE
>
>
> ==== CHILDRESS Mailing List ====
> Contact List Owners Mark or Gary Childress at
> NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS
> London2005(a)Charter.net
>
Have one relative - Lloyd G. Childress, USMC, Retired, WWII Vet, but
deceased.
Me - Retired USAF - Korea and Viet Nam
Cousin: William Robert III, recently retired USMC, Desert Storm and more
recently Iraq.
Only reason I wasn't in Desert Storm cause they said I was too old.
Ron
-------Original Message-------
From: CHILDRESS-L(a)rootsweb.com
Date: 07/09/04 13:26:36
To: CHILDRESS-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [Childress-L] CHILDERS/CHILDRESS VETERANS PROJECT
Given currently have a lot of time on my hands due to an early
retirement or semi-retirement I have decided to embark on some new projects
that being
a complete listing of Childers/Chuildress veterans from ALL WARS in an
effort
to honour in some small way all the kin that gave so much to provide the
freedoms we have today. Being July 4th, I can think of no better day to
begin this
project.
Those men that died in WW2 will be the first to be posted, however
finding those that went to war and returned will require some help from all
my kin
and readers of these newsgroups.
I also have a questioinaire for all those WW2 vets I would like to
collect to present an oral family history. So if you have a
Childers/Childress
relative that served in WW2 and you have a chance ask them please do. Or if
they
would like to participate just drop me a line and I'll sent the form.
Or if you have a family war story I would love to hear it and include it
on the new site. Please lend me a hand in this effort, it will benifit all
now
and in the future to record these things. Over a thousand WW2 vets are
dying
every day don't let this family history die with them.
INDIANA JACK
CHILDERS/CHILDRESS CEMETERY DIRECTORY CHILDERS/CHILDRESS CIVIL WAR SITE
==== CHILDRESS Mailing List ====
Contact List Owners Mark or Gary Childress at
NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS
London2005(a)Charter.net
Given currently have a lot of time on my hands due to an early
retirement or semi-retirement I have decided to embark on some new projects that being
a complete listing of Childers/Chuildress veterans from ALL WARS in an effort
to honour in some small way all the kin that gave so much to provide the
freedoms we have today. Being July 4th, I can think of no better day to begin this
project.
Those men that died in WW2 will be the first to be posted, however
finding those that went to war and returned will require some help from all my kin
and readers of these newsgroups.
I also have a questioinaire for all those WW2 vets I would like to
collect to present an oral family history. So if you have a Childers/Childress
relative that served in WW2 and you have a chance ask them please do. Or if they
would like to participate just drop me a line and I'll sent the form.
Or if you have a family war story I would love to hear it and include it
on the new site. Please lend me a hand in this effort, it will benifit all now
and in the future to record these things. Over a thousand WW2 vets are dying
every day don't let this family history die with them.
INDIANA JACK
CHILDERS/CHILDRESS CEMETERY DIRECTORY CHILDERS/CHILDRESS CIVIL WAR SITE