Show SERVICE RECORD OF NATION city county and state histories Hlat will afford voluminous and valuable data it the present progress in making county and city find state war his tortes Is maintained thoro there will be a vast v its t library of local who was who in I 1 n tho wail war books by the year 2020 not only are towns counties and states preparing their own war histories but colleges and schools of nil all kinds also are getting up tip collective service records large industrial con corns cerns tire are doing the r same nine thing best results in history making seem to havo love been achieved in counties where the records of tho the county draft bo board rd served as a starting point and wl where ere nil all other sources of information have been utilized livingston county illinois furnishes ft typical example of a county which tins lias been painstaking poin in Us its effort efrost to compile a reliable war history A committee of icv seven n was appointed in this county to have charge of the sold soldiers lers and bailors Bai sal lors record before tile records of tile the local exemption board vero closed a list was compiled of nil all registrants of the county who had entered tho ilia service by enlistment or induction the date of entry into the service and the camp to which they wore first sent bent newspaper flies were combed to obtain as many adal lional names as possible the list was then published la in tho the newspaper with tho the request that all names not included be reported to tho the war records committee A questionnaire then was mailed to each service man or woman letters were used to insure the return of the questionnaires the questionnaires tionna ires bak and spaces for practically till all ilia information which appears on tile soldiers discharge certificate and for many other details such as citations in ili full and special honors A special M section will bo be devoted to tile the records of those who died in service their photographs will bo included |