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=== Search Strategies === | === Search Strategies === | ||
It is difficult to locate an individual’s record without knowing his ship or regiment. If you do not know this, you may find it in other types of records. Once you know the regiment or ship, consult the muster rolls, records of service, or other records available for that ship or regiment. Strategies for finding the ship or regiment follow. | It is difficult to locate an individual’s record without knowing his ship or regiment. If you do not know this, you may find it in other types of records. Once you know the regiment or ship, consult the muster rolls, records of service, or other records available for that ship or regiment. Strategies for finding the ship or regiment follow. | ||
==== What is a Service Record? ==== | |||
Many records have been produced to give information about a military man's career. Company clerks were ordered to document certain activities of each regiment and these collections detail specific periods and events. The most useful collections for family historians fall in the following collections: | |||
*Enrollment (attestation) | |||
*Muster Rolls (roll call) | |||
*Discharge | |||
*Stations or assignments | |||
*Diaries | |||
*Medal rolls | |||
*Pensions for disability or death | |||
'''Soldiers'''. If your ancestor married, died, or had children while in the army after 1760, he may be listed in the Chaplains’ Returns or Regimental Registers. If you cannot find your ancestor’s regiment from these records, the other sources you should search will depend on what you know: | '''Soldiers'''. If your ancestor married, died, or had children while in the army after 1760, he may be listed in the Chaplains’ Returns or Regimental Registers. If you cannot find your ancestor’s regiment from these records, the other sources you should search will depend on what you know: | ||