The digital information is now available on the museum’s website and can be downloaded and searched. Kennedy, a World War II veteran himself, and the other volunteers spent a year keying the information on the cards into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. John Kennedy, one of the volunteers who turned the index card information into digital data. “I’ll bet you that we are the only state that has such an item on the web,” said retired Army Col. Now, thanks to a team of 15 volunteers, those records–listing names, serial number, home, and unit, and later on annotated with hand written notes on whether or not the Soldier was killed or wounded– are available online from the New York State Military Museum. When 28,969 New York National Guard Soldiers mobilized in the fall of 1940 as the United States prepared for war, clerks filled out six-by-four inch cards on each man.
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