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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
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- 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
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