One would think after the 1890 Census was mostly destroyed, both by accident and then intentionally, they would have learned. https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1996/spring/1890-census-1.html
My Navy reserve and active duty records were destroyed by that fire. Fortunately, my own personnel files and discharge papers/data are still around. Other government organizations accept my data, yet Navy Bupers doesn’t accept that data.
Cal DMV is so screwed up. I have been recognized as a Vet on my last two driver’s licenses.
Yet Cal DMV does not consider that data, old passports and other older data for the new fly anywhere ID/Driver’s licenses.
I was also able to get the complete records of my husband’s father, who died when my husband was three to four months old, having never seen his only child!
Yup. Mine were there and the only record they have for me is the cover page from enlistment to the 4 ships I was on to my discharge. One reason I’ve had an issue at the VA. No records to back up anything I tell them. As I understand it the history is supposed to lean in the vets favor. Not quite.
My granddad’s records were in that. All gone now.
My great uncles records, a US Corps of Engineers reservist who served in Bataan, were also lost in that fire. He died in the concentration camp at Cabanatuan. We don’t know what units he served in in 1941-42.
All we know was that he was called up, went to Bataan, and was on the list of remains recovered from the death camp.