How The Accounted
works.
Every piece of The Accounted starts from a real archival record, not a guess or a secondhand account. Here's how each part of the platform actually works.
Serial numbers and Morning Reports
Record matching
How The Accounted matches soldiers to their real WWII service records using serial numbers, OCR'd archive pages, and careful human verification, not guesswork.
How record matching worksFrom archive to battlefield
The research method
The actual step-by-step process real historians and genealogists use to research a soldier — from a single service number to standing on the ground where it happened — and where The Accounted fits into each step.
Read the research method