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 Eckenrode, H. J. ''List of the Colonial Soldiers of Virginia''. 1917. Reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing, 1974. (Family History Library book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=73202&disp=List+of+the+colonial+soldiers+of+Virgini%20%20&columns=*,0,0 975.5 M2vl] 1974; 1917 ed. on fiche [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=73202&disp=List+of+the+colonial+soldiers+of+Virgini%20%20&columns=*,0,0 6046993].) This is an alphabetical directory of 6,700 soldiers and transcripts of the original sources of information.
-Taylor, Philip F. ''A Calendar of the Warrants for Land in Kentucky, Granted for Service in the French and Indian War''. 1917. Reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1967. (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=85944&disp=A+calendar+of+the+warrants+for+land+in+K%20%20&columns=*,0,0 book 976.9 R21t; fiche 6019959].) This contains an alphabetical list of soldiers (mostly from Virginia) who received warrants for bounty land in what is now Kentucky from about 1774 to 1789. The original warrant records are at the Kentucky Land Office (see the Kentucky Research Outline).
+Taylor, Philip F. ''A Calendar of the Warrants for Land in Kentucky, Granted for Service in the French and Indian War''. 1917. Reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1967. (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=85944&disp=A+calendar+of+the+warrants+for+land+in+K%20%20&columns=*,0,0 book 976.9 R21t; fiche 6019959].) This contains an alphabetical list of soldiers (mostly from Virginia) who received warrants for bounty land in what is now Kentucky from about 1774 to 1789. The original warrant records are at the Kentucky Land Office (see [[Kentucky Land Records]]).
 ''Virginia Military Records: From the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly''. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing, 1983. (Family History Library book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=306495&disp=Virginia+military+records%20%20&columns=*,0,0 975.5 M2vm].) This contains reprints and an index of articles originally printed in periodicals. Most of the articles deal with the colonial and revolutionary periods. May show the soldier's residence, enlistment, unit, pension application, and declaration.
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 '''U.S. Revolutionary War Bounty Land Warrants . . . 1788, 1803, 1806''' (for land in the United States Military District of Ohio and the Virginia Military District of Ohio). (Family History Library films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=267780&disp=U%2ES%2E+Revolutionary+War+bounty+land+w%20%20&columns=*,0,0 1025142-56]; two indexes are on film [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=267780&disp=U%2ES%2E+Revolutionary+War+bounty+land+w%20%20&columns=*,0,0 1025141].) Applications to the federal government for bounty land are interfiled with the pension application files described above (see Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files in the “Pension Records” section, above). Those who received warrants for bounty land from the federal government could claim land in the Military Districts of Ohio and later in other areas of the public domain.
-'''Bounty Land Grants.''' The individual who received a warrant may have claimed the land himself or may have sold his warrant to someone else. See the United States Research Outline for more information about the process of obtaining a land grant.
+'''Bounty Land Grants.''' The individual who received a warrant may have claimed the land himself or may have sold his warrant to someone else. See [[United States Land and Property]] and [[United States Military Records]] for more information about the process of obtaining a land grant.
 '''Lands Granted in Kentucky (Virginia warrants).'''Those who surrendered their warrants for land in what is now Kentucky are listed in Virginia Grants, 1782-1792 (Family History Library films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=241747&disp=Virginia+grants%2C+1782%2D1792%20%20&columns=*,0,0 272809-17]). The original grants are at the Kentucky Land Office in Frankfort, Kentucky.
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 The surrendered warrants and related papers were sent to the General Land Office in Washington, DC, and are now at the National Archives in Warrants Surrendered for Land in the Virginia Military District of Ohio. The National Archives also has an alphabetical index, numerical register, and survey register that can help you find a warrant in this collection. These records are not on microfilm or at the Family History Library.
-'''Lands Granted in the U.S. Military District and Other Public Domain Areas (U.S. Warrants)'''. The records of these land grants are described in the United States Research Outline.
+'''Lands Granted in the U.S. Military District and Other Public Domain Areas (U.S. Warrants)'''. The records of these land grants are described in [[United States Land and Property]].
 '''Service Records'''. Those who served in the Virginia state or continental line may be listed in Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War (on 1,097 Family History Library films beginning with film [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=484382&disp=Compiled+service+records+of+soldiers+who%20%20&columns=*,0,0 1485281]) and in ''General Index to Compiled Military Service Records of Revolutionary War Soldiers'' (on 58 Family History Library films beginning with [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=484382&disp=Compiled+service+records+of+soldiers+who%20%20&columns=*,0,0 882841]). This is at the National Archives and the Family History Library. May provide the soldier's or sailor's unit which can help to find pension records but does not give information about other members of the soldier's family. Also indexed in:
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 *''Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers'' . . . (on 1075 Family History Library<span id="fck_dom_range_temp_1218574903931_61" /> films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=499010&disp=Compiled+service+records+of+Confederate+%20%20&columns=*,0,0 1488678-1489752]). Lists the soldier's name, rank, unit, and enlistment date and place.
-From the [http://www.lva.lib.va.us/ Library of Virginia]:&nbsp;&nbsp; An outline explaining the variety of Virginia Civil War records available at the Library of Virginia in [http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/mil/rn14_usingcivwar.pdf Research Notes series, No. 14.]
+From the [http://www.lva.lib.va.us/ Library of Virginia]: An outline explaining the variety of Virginia Civil War records available at the Library of Virginia in [http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/mil/rn14_usingcivwar.pdf Research Notes series, No. 14.]
 *''Index to Confederate Service Records of Virginia'' . . .(Family History Library films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=409624&disp=Index+to+Confederate+service+records+of+%20%20&columns=*,0,0 029777-808]). An online index to [http://ajax.lva.lib.va.us/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas31&local_base=CLAS31 Virginia Confederate Rosters]&nbsp; is an unofficial roster of Virginia Confederate soldiers.
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 *United States. Veterans Administration. ''Registers of Veterans at National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1937''. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1988. (On 282 Family History Library films.) Includes general indexes for twelve homes, but some volumes are indexed separately. These Historical Registers may list the soldier's name, date and place of enlistment, rank, military unit, length of service, date and place of discharge, place of birth, age, physical description, religion, occupation, previous residence, marital status, nearest relative, pension, soldier home admission and discharge dates, disability, death date, or cause of death.
-'''Southern Claims Commission.'''  If a Union sympathizer in 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 Virginia counties during the Civil War see the [[Southern Claims Commission|Southern Claims Commission]].
+'''Southern Claims Commission.''' If a Union sympathizer in 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 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=Virginia.ASP Virginia Research Outline].'' Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., Family History Department, 1998, 2001.
+''[[Virginia]] Research Outline.'' 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 as time permits.
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