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Military service and pension records

Research use: Valuable as a supplement where early records are lacking.

Record type: Documentation of soldiers service record and pensions.

Time Period: 1642- present.

Content: Documents include ages, sometimes birth dates and parentage, marriage and death dates and places, relatives.

Location: National Archives in Amman.

Population coverage: Approximately 40%.

Reliability: Good.[1]

References

  1. The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Jordan,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 2000.