More than 10 years ago, Jennifer Holik developed a 2-part research strategy to accurately reconstruct military service for any branch from World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. Even if the files burned!
Two Ways We Can Work Together
I’m now offering three ways to work with clients.
- Coaching Session. For people who want to do as much of the research themselves, clients can invest in a 60-minute coaching session. In this session we will construct a research plan, I will advise on what records you need to begin and where to locate them. I will also advise on when or if you’ll need to work with a researcher to obtain some of the records. Want to learn how to research on your own? Purchase access to the Honoring Our Heroes Program.
- Research Project. Work with me on a research project. See below on everything my clients receive.
- Writing or Book Project. I offer ghost writing services, developmental editing and book design services. Preserve and honor the remarkable stories of yourself, your ancestors, veterans, and the legacies they’ve left behind. We understand the importance of capturing and sharing these unique narratives that span generations. Our mission is to guide you through the process of unearthing and documenting your family’s rich history, while also providing a supportive environment to explore and heal from generational and war trauma. All of my writing services are outlined at the Ancestral Souls Wisdom School under Writing Services.
Jennifer provides expert, custom, and confidential military, historical and genealogical research, analysis, travel, and writing services for authors, genealogists, historians, organizations, and many others. We also offer research on all available civilian federal employee and military records at the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC). This includes Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) service, or Works Progress Administration (WPA), which may have impacted your family member’s World War II service.
We have the rare expertise to:
- Locate, analyze, and interpret World War I, World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam records across all branches for military personnel, including individual soldier records, company records, and unit records. We can also obtain Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) files, or Works Progress Administration (WPA), which may have impacted your family member’s World War II service.
- Reconstruct service history, placing pieces of your service member’s puzzle together, even when the records burned! We find the answers where other firms do not.
- Unlike other firms, we provide you with non-watermarked photocopies or digital images so you can read all parts of a document.
- Help you locate information you didn’t realize you had and sort out your family stories.
- Help you process the emotions and questions that surface through your family stories, the research, and final results. Many of our clients discover things through the research they did not know or that changes what they knew. We now offer resources to clients from the start of the project, to help them process what they learn. You can also explore how to heal family patterns, inherited trauma, handle family secrets and trauma, and more. Also explore our Soul Traveler Substack to learn more about inherited trauma, family patterns, and war trauma.
Research Clients Receive
We provide every client with a customized written analysis, fully sourced report of the service history of their soldier with all documentation located. This document is typically 20+ pages in length based on client’s research goals. We do not give you sterile cut and paste unit histories or battle summaries you may receive from other firms.
Each research project scope and cost is different, based on the depth of information a client wishes to receive. Each client, regardless of depth and length of project, receives the following.
- Free consultation and an evaluation of information a client has, what their roadblocks are, and help prepare a list of questions to have answered.
- Time and cost estimates for each phase of the research based on the client’s specific research and/or writing goals.
- Customized research reports which contain a timeline of military service, answers to your questions, detailed written analysis of the soldier’s service, historical context of their service, complete source citations, bibliography of sources used, and additional resources.
- Copies of all records obtained in each phase of research. This often ends up being hundreds of pages of material about your service member’s service.
- Further research suggestions to dig deeper into the soldier’s story.
- The option to have our firm write a book about the soldier or help you write and publish a book.
- Confidentiality.
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