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Show SERVICE RECORD OF NATION City, County and State Histories Will Afford Voluminous and Valuable Valu-able Data. If the present progress In making county and city and state war histories his-tories Is maintained, there will he a vast library of local "who-was-who in the war" books by the year 2020. Not only are towns, counties and states preparing their own war histories, his-tories, but colleges and schools of all kinds also are getting up collective service records. Large Industrial concerns con-cerns are doing the same thing. Best results In history making seem to have been achieved In counties, where the records of the county draft hoard served as a starting point and where all other sources of Information have been utilized. Livingston county. Illinois, furnishes a typical example of a county which has been painstaking painstak-ing in Its effort to compile a reliable war history. A committee of seven was appointed In this county to have charge of the soldiers' and sailors' record. Before the records of the local exemption board were closed, a list was compiled of all registrants of the county who had entered the service by enlistment or induction, the date of entry into the service and the camp to which they were first sent. Newspaper tiles were combed to obtain as many additional addi-tional names as possible. The list was then published In the newspaper with the request that nil names not included be reported to the war rec-crds rec-crds committee. A questionnaire then was mailed to each service man or woman. Follow-up Follow-up letters were used to Insure the re turn of the questionnaires. The questionnaires ques-tionnaires had spaces for practically all tho information which appears on the soldier's discharge certificate and for many other details, such as citations cita-tions In full and special honors. A special section will he devoted to the records of those who died In service. Their photographs will be included. |