Military Records         October 2005 issue         Current issue     .         Ethnic Toolkits Web Exclusive Forms Bookstore Soundex Code Generator Article Search Writing Workshops Newsletter		Military Records Toolkit Launch an offensive to discover your family's military history—but first, arm yourself with these records and resources. Web Sites 1840 Census of Pensioners, Revolutionary or Military Service www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/colonial/census/1840 Access to Archival Databases: World War II Army Enlistment Records aad.archives.gov/aad/title-list.jsp: Select AllSeries, then scroll down and click the database name. Andersonville Prison Lookup www.montezuma-ga.org/chamber/plookup.htm Birth Info in WWI Civilian Draft Registrations members.aol.com/rayhbanks/cos.html Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System www.itd.nps.gov/cwss Cyndi's List: Civil War www.cyndislist.com/cw.htm Cyndi's List: US Military www.cyndislist.com/military.htm HeritageQuest Online: Revolutionary War Era Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files www.heritagequestonline.com: Available free through subscribing libraries. Military Research Room: 1820 Pension List www.lineages.com/infocenter/databases/1820pension.cfm Research in Military Records www.archives.gov/veterans/research/genealogy.html RootsWeb User-Contributed Databases userdb.rootsweb.com/regional.html: Under USA, scroll to Military Records. Sources2Go.com www.sources2go.com US Military Records Research Outline www.familysearch.org/eng/search/rg/frameset_rhelps.asp: Click on Sorted by Subject, then on M. Scroll down to Military Records, item number 34118. USGenWeb Archives Pension Project www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pensions Valley Forge Muster Roll Project valleyforgemusterroll.org Books and CDs American Civil War Research Database CD (Historical Data Systems, $89.95) Army Service Records of the First World War, revised edition, by Simon Fowler, William Spencer and Stuart Tamblin (NARA, $12.95) Index to Mexican War Pension Applications by Barbara Schull Wolfe (Heritage House, out of print) Index to War of 1812 Pension Files by Virgil D. White (National Historical Publishing Co., out of print) Military Service Records: A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications (NARA, $3.50) Naval Pensioners of the United States, 1800-1851 by Lloyd deWitt Bockstruck (Genealogical Publishing Co., $30) Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants Awarded by State Governments by Lloyd deWitt Bockstruck (Genealogical Publishing Co., out of print) Revolutionary War Pension Records CD (Ancestry, $39.99) Roll of Honor: Civil War Union Soldiers CD (Genealogical Publishing Co., $29.99) Soldiers of the Great War by W.M. Haulsee, F.G. Howe and A.C. Doyle (Soldiers Record Publishing Association, out of print) US Military Records: A Guide to Federal & State Sources: Colonial America to the Present by James C. Neagles (Ancestry, $39.95) World War II Military Records: A Family Historian's Guide by Debra Johnson Knox (MIE Publishing, $23.95) Organizations Air Force Historical Research Agency 600 Chennault Circle, Building 1405 Maxwell Air Force Base, AL 36112 (334) 953-2395 www.au.af.mil/au/afhra Confederate Research Center Box 619 Hillsboro, TX 76645 (254) 582-2555 www.hillcollege.edu/museum/crc.html Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 503 S. Walnut St. Springfield, IL 62704 (217) 544-0616 www.duvcw.org Descendants of Mexican War Veterans Box 830482 Richardson, TX 75083 www.dmwv.org Family History Library 35 N. West Temple St. Salt Lake City, UT 84150 (800) 346-6044 www.familysearch.org Grand Army of the Republic Museum and Library 4278 Griscom St. Philadelphia, PA 19124 (215) 289-6484 garmuslib.org National Archives and Records Administration 700 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20408 (866) 325-7208 www.archives.gov National Museum of the Marine Corps and Heritage Center Box 998 Quantico, VA 22134 (800) 397-7585 www.usmcmuseum.org/store/mchf National Personnel Records Center 9700 Page Ave. St. Louis, MO 63132 Military records: (314) 801-0800 www.archives.gov/st-louis National Society Daughters of the American Revolution 1776 D St. NW Washington, DC 20006 (202) 628-1776 www.dar.org Naval Historical Center Washington Navy Yard 805 Kidder Breese St. SE Washington, DC 20374 (202) 433-3224 www.history.navy.mil Sons of the American Revolution 1000 S. Fourth St. Louisville, KY 40203 (502) 589-1776 www.sar.org Sons of Confederate Veterans Box 59 Columbia, TN 38402 (800) 693-4943 scv.org Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Box 1865 Harrisburg, PA 17105 (717) 232-7000 www.suvcw.org United Daughters of the Confederacy 328 North Blvd. Richmond, VA 23220 (804) 355-1636 www.hqudc.org US Army Center of Military History Collins Hall 103 Third Ave. Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, DC 20319 (202) 685-4042 www.army.mil/cmh US Army Military History Institute Army Heritage and Education Center 950 Soldiers Drive Carlisle, PA 17013 (717) 245-3971 carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi US Department of Veterans Affairs 810 Vermont Ave. NW Washington, DC 20420 (800) 827-1000 www.va.gov For our in-depth article on finding military records, see the October 2005 Family Tree Magazine.

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