CINCINNATI (AP) -- The names and Cincinnati-area burial locations of soldiers who served in conflicts from the Revolutionary War to World War I are being made available online thanks to a genealogist who rescued records that were bound for the trash.

A Works Progress Administration project in the 1930s catalogued that information from Hamilton County cemeteries in five books. The Cincinnati Enquirer ( http://cin.ci/K9fzKn ) reports the county recorder's office had the documents on microfilm and planned to scrap the 2-by-3-foot volumes until Mary Remler asked to take them home in 1979.

That became a blessing when the recorder's office recently learned the books still existed and could be scanned to preserve grave information better than the fading and out-of-focus microfilm.

It's useful information for historians and groups that decorate veterans' graves for holidays.

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Online:

Hamilton County Recorder: www.recordersoffice.hamilton-co.org

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Information from: The Cincinnati Enquirer, http://www.enquirer.com