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Background
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.
Digital archive created and hosted by U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
RG 92: Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, 1774 - 1985
Card Register of Burials of Deceased American Soldiers, 1917 - 1922
NAID: 6943087
Transcription Project
The Zooniverse platform was used to transcribe all information from the cards. Over 6,000 volunteers participated in the project and submitted 4 million transcription tasks.
The data is now available on Fold3 in the Free area of that platform.
It was not a goal or purpose of this project to do any correcting or interpretation of the data, but to create, as close as possible, an exact transcription of the cards as they appear in the digital images. For uniformity and searching purposes, some terms were standardized, such as rank, organization, ship and port names.
Zooniverse
American WWI
Burial Cards
Project
Mapping Project
Burial cards that have coordinates can be viewed geospatially, along with other AEF WWI burial and battle area information on the
AEF Resources Map
AEF Coordinates
Coordinates used by the AEF (e.g. E303.1, N289.2) can be converted to/from lat/long with this tool:
Coordinates Converter v2
**New Version**
Contact
Contact the project coordinator,
Weldon Hoppe, through Facebook (@weldon.hoppe) or Email @gmail.com (w.hoppe58) with questions or comments.
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American WWI Burial Cards Search Tool
** Now includes Missing in Action (MIA) and Burial Case Files (BCF) in the Search Results **
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Instructions
This tool gives the user access to the front and back images of a card or to the Zooniverse discussion comments on a card.
Use any search box or combination of boxes to search the burial cards. The Card ID is shown in the Zooniverse metadata, accessible by clicking the "i" icon at bottom right of a Zooniverse subject image.
Transcriptions of the card data were generally verbatim, including misplaced or incorrect punctuation. However, some fields have been normalized. For example, Co. G may have been Co, G or Co.G on some cards and most variations have been normalized to Company G. The search automatically ignores spaces, periods and commas in a search string unless you check "Exact." Use "%" for wildcard character.
In the Disinterred and Reburied search box, enter desired search strings for one or more of these fields and in this order: cemetery #, cemetery name, section, block, plot, row, grave. For all but the cemetery # and name, include the field title and a colon before the data (no spaces). Separate each field with a wildcard (%).
Example: For cemetery #1232, section 94, grave 96, enter:
1232%section:94%grave:96
Missing in Action (MIA)
Soldiers listed as Missing in Action, compiled from American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) records, have been added to the search. MIA records are not original burial cards. When a soldier also has a burial card, his MIA record appears below the card, and the card view has an MIA tag near his name. MIA results, if any, will be shown at the bottom of the search results page. This is a list of all MIAs:
MIAs
Some soldiers once listed as missing have since been recovered and identified. Their records carry a green "recovered" mark and a link to the source. This is a list of all recovered MIAs:
Recovered MIAs
Burial Correspondence/Case Files (BCF)
Burial case files (burial correspondence) from the National Archives are linked to the burial cards and MIA records they belong to. Links follow the papers inside each file, which sometimes differ from the archive's title. New case files are added as the National Archives puts them online.
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