So our Lindon Utah based friends at Footnote have been getting a lot of press this week for their work in putting the Vietnam memorial online and indexing all of the names. It is a fantastic project. Check out this video:

I read about Footnote a while ago and even checked it out, but haven’t been back. They really are doing some good work there. I got back on and decided to do a search for my surname. I figure if they have anything with van Drimmelen in there… they are good… well, they have two entries… both from some immigration office in New York from the early part of the 20th century… one for a John and one for a Jasper… awesome!

Unfortunately these images are considered premium content so to see the whole thing I have to pay… but still… awesome! Maybe the footnote guys would hook a blogger up with a free membership if he wrote about them every once in a while…