My father Edward Aviles was in The United States Army from 1943 - 1950. He told us that he married a
Edward Aviles 1924 - 2004. I can provide his serial #, social security #, and dates of birth and death if that would help.
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Duane, do you have his service records that show where in Japan he was stationed, and when? I note that he was married in 1940 in Manhattan, New York. Do you know whether the Japanese marriage was an official marriage, or just a local common law marriage? Sometimes the US embassy and/or consulates in Japan and the US Army people in Japan will help find information on marriages during the US occupation assuming the marriages were properly registered. Other times, it is very difficult to find the records of the fathers of occupation children. BTW I entered some source records I found for Edward Aviles into his Familysearch record when I was looking to see what I could find. Perhaps you already have these records from Ancestry.com. John
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Thank you John I do not know if the marriage in Japan was considered legal, reported or exactly where he was stationed during WW11, just what he told our family. I also do not know what records of my father you found on ancestry. I found his dates of service, his serial number, his rank his social security number, and his hospital admissions. What did you find?
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Duane, I found several sources for your father and added them as sources on his Familysearch record. You can view them by looking him up by his unique Familysearch record number, which is GMYD-21Q On Ancestry.com there are several family records (records that individual families have shared on Ancestry) that have your father listed. The Corpas Family Tree 2 https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/88604966/person/240003070384/facts is the family tree that has the most sources for him. A soure is a record, like the Social Security Death Record, the Military Draft Record, a Birth Certificate, a Marriage Certificate, etcetra.
Because I am not a next of kin, I cannot request his complete military records. You or another child can request his military records from the National Archives and information on how to request his records will be found at https://oureverydaylife.com/fathers-military-record-8042390.html These records may tell of his overseas duty stations, and if he was married in Japan, may give additional information on any Japanese family.
I do not know the circumstances of your father's Japanese family. For general information I have lived in Japan for several years and have heard of orphanages and other Japanese organizations that worked to find American Servicemen fathers for Japanese children who stayed in Japan when the servicemen returned to the United States. In some instances, there were not formal marriages and thus, no records of US citizenships for the children. In others, the marriages were registered in Japan but never with the occupation forces or the US government and there are no English-language records of the children. In yet others, the wives (and minor children) opted not to immigrate to the United States. Some children were raised by grandparents, others put into orphanages, others by their mothers. It is a complicated process to find siblings who have spent all their lives in Japan. Sometimes the children, having reached adulthood long ago, seek to know of their heritage. In these cases, there may be records with a few organizations of those seeking siblings in the United States. I visited one orphanage this April that raised several children of American servicemen who lived in Beppu, Japan, and listened to its history. It was an eye-opener to me. John
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John, Thank you so much for your very detailed answer. Your information is very helpful, and I will forward it to my siblings. You may find it interesting to know that I am the creator of The Corpas Family Tree 2. That is part of the reasons that our family looks to me for answers for hard to find questions.
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