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World War II Research and Writing Center I assist clients with research, I teach, and I ghost write books & help clients publish. and Europe.

I am also the only firm to help you explore war trauma & patterns in your family. Visit https://wwiirwc.com and email [email protected] for a free consult. Jennifer Holik created the WWII Research and Writing Center while developing the 2-part strategy to research any veteran from World War I - Vietnam, even if the records burned. She has written books on the strategy and taught classes since 2010 in the U.S. She also has helped military research and genealogy clients find the answers to their family history questions. Hers is also the only military research firm which writes books for clients - private projects for families, or for the public for sale. Since 2010 she has written and self-published more than 20 of her own genealogy and military books along with countless client books. Learn more about her writing services at her online course site: https://www.ancestralsoulswisdomschool.com/writing-services

10/15/2026

Well, the 1945 Army Morning Reports we have been waiting for the last year, to be uploaded to NARA Catalog are not there.

Guess where they are....Fold3 and they are incomplete even though Fold3 says 100% scanned. The OCR is ok but if you are new to this research you will probably miss a lot because you don't know what you don't know.

You can download individual images. The option to download the entire roll is there but they are enormous. The January 1945 roll I was looking at for 90th Division had almost 36,000 images. That download would probably not work or kill a computer. So you are back to downloading page by page if you want an entire month.

There are so many issues with this and I'm curious why NARA decided not to put all WWII reports on the catalog where people already know how to search them for FREE.

If you purchased any pre-recorded WWII research programs that have sections on Morning Reports, I will be recording a new lesson once I figure out how to best explain searching them on Fold3 with all the issues they are presenting. Once the products are updated with the new lesson and the workbook is updated, you will be notified.

Would you like more context on what life was like on the home front for families who lost a loved one during war? The ID...
10/12/2026

Would you like more context on what life was like on the home front for families who lost a loved one during war? The IDPF can give you a lot of information you won't find in other record sets. You will also learn different perspectives about what families experienced.

If your family lost someone during any war, I invite you to explore how they handled their grief. What did their processing and integration of the loss look like? Or did they avoid their grief and who was it passed to through the generations? Are YOU carrying an ancestors unhealed pain?

Visit the WWII Research & Writing Center to explore articles and files.

This will probably trigger people but I'm totally ok with that. If I trigger you, it will possibly ask you to consider y...
10/07/2026

This will probably trigger people but I'm totally ok with that. If I trigger you, it will possibly ask you to consider your beliefs, behaviors, and patterns. It may make you question your own family history.

There is no right or wrong here - just an invitation for an exploration into your beliefs, patterns, behaviors, and your family's war trauma.

Have you noticed society been programmed to (primarily) only remember and honor men who fought and died in war. Why are their stories so much more valuable and important than the stories of all the women, children, and men unable to serve in war, who stayed on the home front - no matter where in the world they lived?

When we look at women especially, they are the primarily the ones that kept things going on the home front in the U.S. and Europe and elsewhere. They are the ones who had to work, raise children, help family and community all at the same time. They are the ones who took on the heavy responsibility of caring for the men when they came back - IF they came back. Every man who returned was wounded in some way - visible or invisible. Women were the ones who were supposed to shut up, take it, deal with it, and keep going with little to no support.

When we look at the women who lost a spouse during the war - most people don't talk about her grief, her loss, how she moved on, and what choices she had (or didn't have based on how you perceive things.) How did her moving on affect children she had prior to or during the war with her now dead or missing spouse? How did her new spouse, if she took one, deal with the ghost in the house of the "war hero who died" along with his own war stories, trauma, and grief?

All of these things impact the traumas, unfinished business, undigested and unintegrated pieces of war, that were passed down through the generations by men and women. Today the children, grandchildren, great grandchildren deal with all of this, often on an unconscious level. Women are still pushing to have a voice.

What does the voice of your female ancestor say about WWII or any war? What do the voices of her children, grandchildren, and others say about what they carry? Where are you still trying to have your voice?

This month, on Thurs. Oct. 22 at 7 p.m., I'm teaching The Soul Came Home Wounded if you would like to learn about war trauma and its impact on both veterans and civilians.
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