Nevada Volunteers Will Help Transfer Decades of Military Records to Digital

The Nevada Department of Veterans Services, in partnership with the Nevada State Library, Archives and Public Records, will be training volunteers to scan decades old military discharge records into Nevada’s Veterans Information System or electronic database. The work will place discharge information, currently on paper documents, into the electronic database making it easier for veterans to access to their discharge record to file a claim for earned benefits. The documents to be scanned are known as DD214’s. Before the training, the 12 volunteers have to undergo federal and state background checks to be allowed to handle sensitive information. The documents that will be scanned date back to 1945. There are more than 88,000
military service documents stored in the Nevada State Archives.