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| Guide to locating military records for ancestry, family history, and genealogy research. | | Guide to locating military records for ancestry, family history, and genealogy research. |
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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 in a country. 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'''=== | | ===General Types of Military Records Found In U.S. 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. | | *'''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''' | | *'''Draft, Conscription, or Selective Service Records''' |
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| *'''Military Burials''' | | *'''Military Burials''' |
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| ==What can you find in military records?== | | ==Content Found in Military Records== |
| Military records provide a variety of information about an individual and could include their birthplace, age at enlistment, occupation, and names of immediate family members. | | Military records provide a variety of information about an individual and could include their birthplace, age at enlistment, occupation, and names of immediate family members. |
| *'''Service Records:'''<br> Name, unit, residence, date mustered in and out, basic biographical, medical and military information. Locations transferred to throughout term of service. | | *'''Service Records:'''<br> Name, unit, residence, date mustered in and out, basic biographical, medical and military information. Locations transferred to throughout term of service. |
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| *'''Military Burials:''' Name, years of birth and death, military unit, marriage information | | *'''Military Burials:''' Name, years of birth and death, military unit, marriage information |
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| ==How do you find military records?== | | ==Finding Military Records?== |
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| |<span style="color:DarkViolet"> ''' Many military records are online. You should consult the Wiki article on military records for each country to understand how to find and search its military records</span>
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| ===United States Military Online Genealogy Records===
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| Links to '''online nationwide military records for the U.S.''' have been collected and organized in the Wiki article [[United States Military Online Genealogy Records|'''United States Military Online Genealogy Records''']].
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| ===Sidebar Links to Wiki Articles===
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| Military records for other countries and for each U.S. State are discussed in articles which can be found linked in the sidebar for each location.
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| ===Online Genealogical Records Pages===
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| On the main page for each U.S. State page and country page, a blue button leads to a listing of '''online record collections.'''
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| *'''Also, all the available Online Genealogy Records pages are linked at''' [[Online Genealogy Records by Location|'''Online Genealogy Records by Location.''']]
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| *Military records collected by FamilySearch, usually digitized and online, are listed in the [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog '''FamilySearch catalog'''.] Enter the name of the country in the "Place Field" and click "Search". A list of record categories will be provided. Select the military records for the time period in which your relative served..
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| [[Category:Military Records]] | | [[Category:Military Records]] |