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==What are military records?== | ==What are military records?== | ||
Military records identify millions of individuals who '''served in the military or who were eligible for service'''. You may find evidence that an ancestor served in the military in family traditions, military records, naturalization records, biographies, cemetery records, and records of veterans' organizations. More recent military records usually have more information than older records. | Military records identify millions of individuals who '''served in the military or who were eligible for service'''. You may find evidence that an ancestor served in the military in family traditions, military records, naturalization records, biographies, cemetery records, and records of veterans' organizations. More recent military records usually have more information than older records. | ||
==='''General Types of Military Records'''=== | |||
*'''Service Records:''' Service records for militia, volunteer, or regular forces document that an individual served in the military and can provide your ancestor’s unit or organization. | |||
*'''Draft, Conscription, or Selective Service Records''' | |||
*'''Census Records of Men Eligible for Service''' | |||
*'''Bounty Land Warrants:''' The federal government provided grants of bounty land for those who served in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and Indian wars between 1790 and 1855. | |||
*'''Pension or Veteran Records:''' Payments or benefits were given to retired soldiers. However, not every veteran received or applied for a pension. | |||
*'''Military Burials''' | |||
==What can you find in military records?== | ==What can you find in military records?== | ||