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Military and civil service records provide unique facts and insights into the lives of men and women who have served their country at home and abroad.

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Alabama Revolutionary War Soldiers
Albemarle, Virginia Record of Families, 1744-1890
American Civil War Battle Summaries
American Civil War General Officers
American Civil War Regiments
American Civil War Soldiers
American Revolutionary War Rejected Pensions
American Soldiers of World War I
Andersonville Prisoners of War
Annual report of the Adjutant General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1863-1865
Annual report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York, Vols. 1-2
Annual report of the Adjutant General of the State of West Virginia for the year ending, 1864-1865
Annual report of the Adjutant-General of the State of New York, 1894-1905
ANZAC Memorial, 1914-1918
Aroostook War (Maine) History and Roster
Audrain County, Missouri Draft Records, 1917
Babergh Hundred Military Survey of 1522
Bavaria, Germany, WWI Personnel Rosters, 1914-1918 (in German)
Berks County, Pennsylvania Service Roster, 1917-18
Boston, Massachusetts, Males in Major Townsend's Camp, 1698
British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920
British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920
British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920
British Commonwealth War Graves Registers, 1914-1918
British Naval Biographical Dictionary, 1849
Callaway County, Missouri Veterans
Callaway County, Missouri Veterans
Camp Travis, Texas World War I Records
Canada, Soldiers of the First World War, 1914-1918
Charterhouse Register 1872-1910
Civil War papers read before the Commandery of the State of Massachusetts, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Vols. 1-2
Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934
Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865
Colorado Soldiers in WWI, 1917-18
Commissioned Sea Officers of the Royal Navy, 1660-1815
Confederate Applications for Presidential Pardons, 1865-1867
Confederate Service Records, 1861-1865
Confederate States Field Officers
Connecticut Men in the Revolutionary War
Connecticut Pensioners, 1835
Connecticut Revolutionary War Military Lists, 1775-83
Connecticut Servicemen, Spanish American War
Connecticut Soldiers, French and Indian War, 1755-62
Connecticut State Register, 1924 Government & Military records
Connecticut, Adjutant-General Report, 1901
Contributions to a history of the Richmond Howitzer Battalion, Pamphlets 1-4
Das K.K. Österreische Auxiliarcorps im russischen Feldzuge, 1812 (in German)
Delaware Pensioners, 1835
Dept of Interior Decisions on Pensions and Bounty-Land Claims, 1886-1930
Die Regiments-Namen der altpreussischen Armee (in German)
Documents and Records Relating to the Province of New Hampshire, 1692-1722
Ellis County, Texas World War I Veterans
England, The National Roll of the Great War, 1914-1918
Festschrift zur Jahrhundertfeier des K. b. 14. Infanterie-Regiments " Hartmann " vom 11. bis 13. Juli 1914 in Nürnberg (in German)
Florida War Death List, 1836-42
France: Natzweiler-Struthof Concentration Camp Record Book, 1940-1945
Ft. Smith Criminal Case Files, 1866-1900
General Photographs of the Bureau of Ships, 1914-1946
Georgia, Confederate Pension Applications, 1879-1960
German Casualties in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 (in German)
Germany: Dachau Concentration Camp Records, 1945
Germany: Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Records, 1938-1945
Geschichte des Kgl. Bayer. 6. Chevaulegers-Regiments "Prinz Albrecht von Preußen" 1803 bis 1871, sowie der Stammabteilungen des Regiments (in German)
Great Britain Army War List, January 1893
Hannover, Germany, Casualties in the Invasion of Russia, 1812-1813 (in German)
Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, 1879-1903
Herkimer County, New York Soldiers, 1916-1918
Histoire Militaire des Suisses au Service de la France : avec les Pièces Justificatives. Tomo 1 (in French)
Histoire Militaire des Suisses au Service de la France : avec les Pièces Justificatives. Tomo 2 (in French)
Histoire Militaire des Suisses au Service de la France : avec les Pièces Justificatives. Tomo 3 (in French)
Histoire Militaire des Suisses au Service de la France : avec les Pièces Justificatives. Tomo 4 (in French)
Histoire Militaire des Suisses au Service de la France : avec les Pièces Justificatives. Tomo 5 (in French)
History and Roster of Mayland Volunteers, War of 1861-1865, Vols. 1-2
History of the Eighth U.S. Infantry from its organization in 1838, Vols. 1-2
History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps: a complete record of the organization, and of the different companies, regiments and brigades
History of the Seventh Regiment of New York, 1806-1889, Vols. 1-2
Holocaust: Auschwitz Forced Laborers
Holocaust: Survivor List from the files of World Jewish Congress
Holocaust: Survivor Names printed in Aufbau Newspaper, New York, 1944-1946
Holocaust: Survivor names printed in Sharit Ha-Platah, 1946
Illinois Revolutionary War Veteran Burials
Indian Army Quarterly List for 1 January 1912
Indiana Gold Star Honor Roll, 1914-1918
Indiana Spanish American War Records
Iosco County, Michigan WWI Veterans Index
Iowa Civil War Soldier Burial Records
Iowa Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, 1885
Ireland, Casualties of World War I, 1914-1918
Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II
Kansas 353rd Infantry Regiment in World War I
Kansas Civil War Soldiers
Kentucky Civil War Union Volunteers
Kentucky Confederate Volunteers
Kentucky Soldiers of the War of 1812
Korean War Casualties, 1950-1957
Korean War Prisoners of War, 1950-1954
La batialle de Bouvines et ses leçons : Discours pronouncé à Bouvines dans la solennité du septième centenai re (12 juillet 1914) (in French)
Latvia: Courland Registers and Family Lists, 1845-1874
LDS Military Records, 1840-1847
Leavenworth, Kansas Veterans, 1915-16
Life of Joseph Brant-Thayendanegea, including the border wars of the American Revolution, and sketches of the Indian campaigns, Vols. 1-2
List of pensioners on the roll, January 1, 1883, Vols. 1-5
Louisiana Confederate Soldiers
Louisiana Military Record
Louisiana Soldiers in the War of 1812
Loyalists in the American Revolution: Miscellaneous Records
Maine Military Men, 1917-1918
Maine Pensioners, 1835
Maine Revolutionary War Bounty Applications, 1835-36
Maryland Military Men, 1917-18
Maryland Revolutionary War Records
Maryland Soldiers in the Civil War, Vol. 1
Maryland Soldiers in the Civil War, Vol. 2
Massachusetts Army & Navy, 1861-1865
Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the War of 1861-1865
Massachusetts Military Company History, Vol. 4
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War (Images Online)
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, 17 Vols.
Massachusetts soldiers and sailors of the Revolutionary War
Massachusetts Spanish American War Records
Memorials of deceased companions of the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Vols. 1-2
Michigan Military Records, 1775-1836
Military essays and recollections: papers read before the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Vols. 1-4
Military record of civilian appointments in the United States Army
Minnesota Civil War Soldiers
Minnesota Volunteers in the Spanish American War and the Philippine Insurrection
Missouri Civil War Records
Missouri Confederate Death Records
Missouri Confederate Volunteers
Missouri National Guard, the Mexican Border, 1916
Missouri State Offices Political and Military Records, 1919 - 1920
Muscatine County, Iowa Civil War Soldiers
Muster and Pay Rolls of the War of the Revolution, 1775-1783: Miscellaneous Records
My diary in America in the midst of war, Vols. 1-2
My diary, North and South, Vols. 1-2
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
Nebraska Pawnee Scouts, 1861-69
Nebraska Resident Military Roster on June 1, 1891
Nebraska Volunteers, 1861-69
Nevada Civil War Volunteers
New Hampshire Pensioners, 1835
New Jersey Pensioners, 1835
New York Civil War Records (1861-65)
New York Military Equipment Claims, War of 1812
New York Military in the Revolution
New York Pensioners, 1835
North Carolina Revolutionary War Soldiers
North Carolina Volunteers, Spanish American War
North Dakota Military Men, 1917-1918
Officers of the Continental and U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1775-1900
Official Army register of the volunteer force of the United States Army, 1861-1865, Parts 1-8
Official records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865
Official roster of the soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Vols. 1-12
Ohio Military Men, 1917-18
Ohio Soldiers in the War with Spain, 1898-99
Ohio Soldiers in WWI, 1917-1918
Oneida County, New York Servicemen, 1917-19
Oregon Volunteers, Spanish American War and Philippine Insurrection
Origines des armées revolutionnaires & impériales d'aprés les archives départementales de l'Ariége (in French)
Panama Canal Zone, Gorgas Hospital Mortuary Records, 1906-1991
Patriotism of Illinois: a record of the civil and military history of the state in the War for the Union, Vols. 1-2
Pennsylvania Pensioners, 1835
Pennsylvania Volunteers in the War of 1812
Personal-Chronik der Oldenburgischen Officiere und Militairbeamten von 1775 bis 1867 (in German)
Rebellion of 1837, Upper Canada
Regiments and armories of Massachusetts: an historical narration of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Vols. 1-2
Report of the Adjutant & Inspector General of the State of Vermont, 1863-1866
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 1861-1865, Vols. 1-8
Returns from Regular Army Regiments, 1821-1916
Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916 (World Archives Project)
Revolutionary War Courts-Martial
Revolutionary War Officers
Revolutionary War Pension Index
Revolutionary War Pensioner Census, 1841
Rhode Island Colonial War Servicemen, 1740-62
Rhode Island Pensioners, 1835
Roster of the men and women who served in the army or naval service (including the Marine Corps) of the United States or its allies from the state of North Dakota in the World War, 1917-1918, Vols. 1-4
Ruhmeshalle der k.k. österreichischen Armee (in German)
Stars and Stripes Newspaper, Europe, Mediterranean, and North Africa Editions, 1942-1964
Stars and Stripes Newspaper, Pacific Editions, 1945-1963
Stars and Stripes Newspaper, WWI Edition, 1918-1919
Tennessee Civil War Regimental Histories
Tennessee, Civil War Confederate Pension Applications Index
U.S. Army Historical Register, 1789-1903, Vol. 1
U.S. Army Historical Register, 1789-1903, Vol. 2
U.S. Army Indian Campaign Service Records Index, 1815-1858
U.S. Army Personnel and Dependent Casualties, 1961-1981
U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914
U.S. Casualties From Iraq and Afghanistan Conflicts, Oct 2001 - Mar 2009
U.S. Civil War Jewish-American Veterans, 1861-1865
U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles
U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
U.S. Colored Troops Military Service Records, 1861-1865
U.S. Compiled Revolutionary War Military Service Records, 1775-1783
U.S. Index to General Correspondence of the Record and Pension Office, 1889-1904
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls, 1798-1940
U.S. Military and Naval Academy Registers, 1805-1908
U.S. Military Burial Registers, 1768-1921
U.S. Military Manuals, 1863-1973
U.S. Military Records, 1925: Official National Guard Register
U.S. Military: Great White Fleet (Atlantic Fleet bound for the Pacific, 16 December 1907)
U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938
U.S. Naval Deaths, World War I
U.S. Navy Cruise Books, 1950-1988
U.S. Navy Pensions Index, 1861-1910
U.S. Pensioners, 1818-1872
U.S. Revolutionary War Miscellaneous Records (Manuscript File), 1775-1790s
U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
U.S. Rosters of World War II Dead, 1939-1945
U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006
U.S. War and Conflict Images, 1765-1970
U.S. War Bounty Land Warrants, 1789-1858
U.S. World War I Mothers' Pilgrimage, 1930
U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
U.S. WWII Military Personnel Missing In Action or Lost At Sea, 1941-1946
UK, Army Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
UK, British Army Prisoners of War, 1939-1945
UK, De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, 1914-1924
UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919
Urkundliche Nachrichten zur Geschichte der Garnison u. Garnisongemeinde in Spandau (in German)
Utah Index to Indian War Service Affidavits, 1909-19
Vermont Men in the Revolutionary War
Vermont Pensioners, 1835
Vietnam War, Awards and Decorations of Honor, 1965-1972
Vietnam War, Casualties Returned Alive, 1962-1979
Vietnam War: U.S. Military Casualties, 1956-1998
Virginia Colonial Militia, 1651-1776
Virginia Colonial Soldiers
Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War
Virginia Navy in the Revolution
Virginia Revolutionary War Records
Virginia Soldiers of 1776, Vol. 1
War of 1812 Papers, 1789-1815
War of 1812 Pension Application Files Index, 1812-1815
War of 1812 Service Records
War of 1812, Prisoner of War Records, 1812-1815
War of 1812: Miscellaneous Canadian Records
War of the Rebellion
War papers read before the Commandery of the State of Maine, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Vols. 1-4
War papers read before the Commandery of the State of Michigan Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, 1886-1898, Vols. 1-2
War papers read before the Commandery of the State of Wisconsin, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Vols. 1-4
Watertown, Massachusetts' Military History
West Virginia 5th Cavalry Roster
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
World War II and Korean Conflict Veterans Interred Overseas
World War II Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Casualties, 1941-1945
World War II Prisoners of War, 1941-1946
World War II Young American Patriots, 1941-1945
WWI Civilian Draft Registrations
WWI, WWII, and Korean War Casualty Listings
WWII U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Muster Rolls, 1939-1949
WWII United News Newsreels, 1942-1946
WWII United News Newsreels, 1942-1946 (Free)
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