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As orderly as the soldiers therein, military records seem ideally suited for online research. Though military documents can be found in many of the databases in this year's 101 list, sites in this section are especially useful for finding your ancestors' service records and exploring the wars they fought.
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Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System Currently, 3.5 million soldiers from 30 states are named in this searchable database. CWSS also includes histories of more than 4,000 Union and Confederate units, which are linked to the soldiers and the battles. Although all 5.4 million soldier names have...
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Launch an offensive to discover your family's military history—but first, arm yourself with these records and resources.
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American Revolution The American Revolution and Its Era memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/armhtml/armhome.html Spy Letters of the American Revolution www.si.umich.edu/spies RevList—The Revolutionary War Mailing List www.liming.org/revlist Black Loyalists: Our History, Our People collections.ic.gc.ca/blackloyalists Maryland Loyalists users.erols.com/candidus The War for...
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Illinois has long led the nation is putting genealogical records online. Most recently, the state archives has added the Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls Database to its offerings. (Other searchable databases include public land sales, Black Hawk War and War of 1812 military records, along with marriage records—see...
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Got a soldier, sailor or marine ancestor who served in the War of 1812? Search these free genealogy War of 1812 websites.
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On Sept. 27, 2004, a special ceremony at Ford's Theatre National Historic Site commemorated the completion of the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database (CWSS). This online, searchable database contains 6.3 million names of Civil War veterans, both Union and Confederate. In case you've never used this database, it's...
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As Civil War researchers know, Andersonville was one of the most notorious Confederate prisons. During the year and a half that Andersonville was in operation, nearly 13,000 Union soldiers died there, mainly of malnutrition and disease. Imprisonment at Andersonville was often synonymous with a death sentence. If your...
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