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Online Military Indexes, War Records & Databases of Soldiers

Genealogy directory of online military indexes from the Revolutionary War to the 20th Century.

Prologue: Strategies for Reconstructing Careers of Foreign Service Officers, 1869-1887

By Kenneth W. Heger. Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration Spring 1999, vol. 31, no. 1.

PT Boats, Inc.

Collection of information on PT Boats and the men who served on them. Includes a message board & reunion information.

Ruth Ann's Military Links Page

Selective Service Records

Beyond the Index - Michael John Neill. This article discusses how to locate and access records from the Selective Service System.

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From Family Tree Magazine.

The Genealogy Center presents Our Military Heritage

The Genealogy Center - Providing genealogical and historical information about Allen County, Indiana, the United States, and beyond.

The History Guy: United States Military History

The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy - Ancestry.com Wiki

The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy is a reference book published by Ancestry Publishing. The first edition was published in 1984 and was edited by Arlene H. Eakle and Johni Cerny. A revised edition, edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, was published in 1997. The current edition, the third, was published in 2006 and was also edited by Szucs and Luebking. In 2010, Ancestry.com digitized the content of The Source and made it available in wiki format as one of the foundational sources for the Ancestry.com Wiki. Each chapter has been broken into one or more series of articles.

U.S. Army Home Page

U.S. Dept of Veterans' Affairs - Guide for Submitting Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Requests

U.S. Merchant Marine, U.S. Maritime Service, Army Transport Service, Military Sea Transportation Service, and Military Sealift Command

Unofficial Air Force E-mail Locator

Past, present, and retired United States Air Force personnel submit their e-mail address at this site. Folks having home pages are noted.

US Military Veterans Search - Vet Friends.com

Locate military personnel and veterans.

WorldVitalRecords.com - Search All Military Databases $

An inexpensive, growing set of pay-for-use databases. Including vital records, court records, military records, and an extensive collection of newspapers.