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 [[Portal:United States Military Records|Portal:United States Military Records]]&gt;[[West Virginia|West Virginia]]
-The [http://www.familysearchwiki.org/resolveuid/5b064d1a23681998ba8ead6420975101 U.S. Military Records Research Outline] provides more information on federal military records and search strategies.
+The [[United States Military Records|United States Military Records]] Wiki article provides more information on federal military records and search strategies.
-Many military records are found at the Family History Library, the National Archives, and other federal and state archives. The [http://www.familysearchwiki.org/../united-states-research-outline United States Research Outline] provides more information about federal records. For information on records from the colonial period to 1863, see the [http://www.familysearchwiki.org/resolveuid/4e1c7f8f11cb7946a951def5c86f24ee Virginia Research Topics.]
+Many military records are found at the Family History Library, the National Archives, and other federal and state archives. The [[United States|United States]] Wiki article provides more information about federal records. For information on records from the colonial period to 1863, see the [http://www.familysearchwiki.org/resolveuid/4e1c7f8f11cb7946a951def5c86f24ee Virginia Research Topics.]
 The Archives and History Library has the original adjutant general's records for the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Indian Wars, Civil War (Union and Confederate), and Spanish-American War. These include muster and descriptive rolls, enlistment records, and correspondence.
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 Johnston, Ross B. ''West Virginians in the American Revolution''. 1959. Reprint. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1977. (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=49792&disp=West+Virginians+in+the+American+Revoluti%20%20&columns=*,0,0 book 975.4 M2j; the 1959 edition is on fiche 6087736]). This includes sketches of over 1,300 soldiers who lived in West Virginia at some time in their life.
 Reddy, Anne Waller. ''West Virginia Revolutionary Ancestors Whose Services were Non-military''. 1930. Reprint. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1963. (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=49221&disp=West+Virginia+Revolutionary+ancestors%20%20&columns=*,0,0 book 975.4 N2r; film 1321057 item 6].) This book lists persons in the Revolutionary Public Claims records who gave aid and support, “provisions and other necessaries”, to the revolutionary forces. Most of these patriots do not appear in other Revolutionary War sources.
 === Civil War (1861-1865)  ===
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 http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/3680/cw/cw-wv.html
 http://www.wvculture.org/history/civilwar.html
-'''Southern Claims Commission.'''  If a Union sympathizer in West Virginia claimed a loss during the Civil War due to Union military confiscation, he could apply to the Southern Claims Commission for reimbursement. Only a few applied per county, but their neighbors were called as witnesses and asked dozens of questions. Hundreds of the residents of all kinds in a county may be mentioned in answers to Commission questions, and their wartime activities described. To learn how to find records mentioning these neighbors in West Virginia counties during the Civil War see the [[Southern Claims Commission|Southern Claims Commission]].
+'''Southern Claims Commission.''' If a Union sympathizer in West Virginia claimed a loss during the Civil War due to Union military confiscation, he could apply to the Southern Claims Commission for reimbursement. Only a few applied per county, but their neighbors were called as witnesses and asked dozens of questions. Hundreds of the residents of all kinds in a county may be mentioned in answers to Commission questions, and their wartime activities described. To learn how to find records mentioning these neighbors in West Virginia counties during the Civil War see the [[Southern Claims Commission|Southern Claims Commission]].
 === World War I (1917-1918)  ===
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 == References  ==
-''[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Search/Rg/frameset_rg.asp?Dest=G1&Aid=&Gid=&Lid=&Sid=&Did=&Juris1=&Event=&Year=&Gloss=&Sub=&Tab=&Entry=&Guide=West_Virginia.ASP West Virginia Research Outline].'' Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., Family History Department, 1998, 2001.
+[[West Virginia|West Virginia]] Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., Family History Department, 1998, 2001.
+:NOTE: All of the information from the original research outline has been imported into this Wiki site and is being updated here, as time permits.
-[[Category:West Virginia|Military]]
+[[Category:West_Virginia|Military]]