U.S. Military Collection

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    U.S. Military Heritage

    Since the beginning of the American Revolution, more than 43 million men and women have served in the U.S. military during wartime. In this some 230 years of military heritage, more than 650,000 American lives have been lost and more than 1.4 million service members wounded in battle. We remember and honor all that these heroes have sacrificed for America’s freedom.

    Ancestry.com U.S. Military Collection

    Discover the heroes in your family tree in the Ancestry.com U.S. Military Collection – including millions of U.S. military records, covering almost 400 years of American wars and conflicts. With more than 100 million names and 700 titles and databases of military records from all 50 U.S. states, there are countless opportunities to learn the stories of courage and sacrifice in your family tree.

    Search through enlightening historical documents from every major U.S. war from the American Revolution through Vietnam, including draft registration cards, veterans’ gravesites, soldier pension indexes, enlistment records, muster rolls and much more.

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Featured CollectionsView all military

WWII U.S. Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949

This collection of over 33 million records gives facts about WWII enlisted personnel, like occupational specialty and service number.

U.S. Navy Cruise Books Index, 1918-2009

Similar to yearbooks for naval ships, these records include photographs, officer biographies and more.

U.S. World War II Draft
Registration Cards, 1942

Search almost 6 million draft cards of men who registered for the fourth WWII draft in 1942.

World War I Draft
Registration Cards, 1917-1918

Draft registration cards for more than 24 million men who registered for the WWI draft in 1917 and 1918.

U.S. World War II Army
Enlistment Records, 1938-1946

Collection of more than 8 million names of U.S. Army enlistees during WWII.

U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled
Service Records, 1861-1865

This collection contains an index to over 2 million compiled service records for soldiers who served with units in the Confederate army during the Civil War.

U.S., Union Soldiers Compiled
Service Records, 1861-1865

This collection contains an index to over 2 million compiled service records for soldiers who served with units in the Union army during the Civil War.

U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865

Collection of military service records, containing more than 6 million names of servicemen — Union and Confederate — who fought in the U.S. Civil War.

U.S. Army, Register of
Enlistments, 1798-1914

Registers of enlistments in the U.S. Regular Army compiled from a variety of other records, including enlistment papers, muster rolls and unit records.

U.S. Marine Corp
Muster Rolls, 1798-1940

An index of U.S. Marine Corps muster rolls containing name, rank, enlistment date, muster date and station.