Military Records Toolkit

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.
• WWI Draft Registrations at RootsWeb
  www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rwguide/WWIdraft.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.
• 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.
• 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/info/texasheritagemuseum
• 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
  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 Heritage and Education Center
  950 Soldiers Drive
  Carlisle, PA 17013
  (717) 245-3971
  www.carlisle.army.mil/ahec/index.cfm
• US Department of Veterans Affairs
  810 Vermont Ave. NW
  Washington, DC 20420
  (800) 827-1000
  www.va.gov