Another place to search that was just put out to the public is: http://www.cem.va.gov/ Good Luck, Reta Young In a message dated 4/14/2004 4:07:26 AM Pacific Standard Time, timber72@muhlon.com writes: Online Searchable Military Records & Databases a genealogy guide free databases http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/military.html Revolutionary War Indiana Revolutionary War Burials Kentucky Revolutionary War Warrants Database (Before June 1, 1792, Kentucky was a part of Virginia) Maryland: Muster Rolls & Other Records of Service of Maryland Troops in the American Revolution Index for these Records Pennsylvania Revolutionary War Military Abstract Card File Indexes South Carolina Revolutionary War Letters, Diaries & Orders searchable online Valley Forge Muster Roll Hessian Soldiers of the Revolutionary War War of 1812 Database of Illinois War of 1812 Veterans Ohio Historical Society War of 1812 Roster of Ohio Soldiers Library of Virginia Index to the War of 1812 Pay Rolls and Muster Rolls War of 1812 Land Bounty Warrants ===== Black Hawk War Database of Illinois Black Hawk War Veterans Mexican War Mexican War - Online Rosters Database of Illinois Mexican War Veterans Palo Alto & Resaca de la Palma Casualty List (Texas) Civil War The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System indexes about 5 million Civil War soldiers; includes prisoners and cemeteries Civil War Burials Database Project Alabama Civil War Service Database (surnames A-K) Colorado Civil War Volunteers (also includes a separate listing for the New Mexico Campaign of 1862) Colorado Civil War Veterans (Grand Army of the Republic members only) Colorado Civil War Casualties Connecticut: Noble Pension Database (Civil War and Spanish American War) Connecticut: Fitch's Home for Soldiers - The Deceased Veterans Discharge Files 1882-1936 (Civil War and Spanish American War) Florida Confederate Pension Application Files Georgia Civil War Pension Records Illinois Civil War Database Illinois Civil War Rosters Illinois: Rock Island County - Confederate Dead at Rock Island Prison (now called Arsenal Island) Kansas: Index To Kansas Volunteer Regiment Enlistments 1861-1865 Kansas: Necrology of the Grand Army of the Republic (13,000 death notices) Louisiana Confederate Pension Applications Index Database Maryland: History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers War of 1861-5 Volume 1 Maryland: History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers War of 1861-5 Volume 2 Nebraska Civil War Veterans (Grand Army of the Republic members only) New Jersey: Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War 1861-1865 New York Civil War Database Ohio Civil War Documents Ohio: Links to Ohio Civil War Rosters Oklahoma: Index to Oklahoma's Confederate Pension Records (downloadable PDF file) Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File Index 1861-1866 Pennsylvania Civil War Burial Index (downloadable PDF files) South Carolina Confederate Pension Applications 1919-1926 (includes digital images) Tennessee Confederate Civil War Pension Applications - Soldiers & Widows Tennessee Southern Claims Commission Index 1871-1873 Lists 3,929 Tennesseans who claimed their property had been taken by United States military personnel for use in the Civil War. Texas Confederate Pensions Texas Confederate Indigent Families 1863-1865 Vermont in the Civil War includes rosters of Vermont units Virginia: Index to Confederate Rosters Virginia Confederate Pension Rolls, Widows & Veterans Virginia: Civil War Era Burials - Alexandria National Cemetery Virginia: 1890 Veterans Census - Northern Virginia Union Veterans & Widows of Union Veterans West Virginia Union Militia in the Civil War Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 Recommended Guide Books (available from Amazon.com)... Tracing Your Civil War Ancestor by Bertram Hawthorne Groene In Search of Confederate Ancestors: The Guide by J. H. Segars Spanish-American War Colorado Volunteers in the Spanish American War (1898) Illinois Spanish-American War Veterans Database Michigan Spanish American War Volunteers (not yet complete) Pennsylvania: Spanish American War Veterans' Card File of United States Volunteers Spanish American War - Online Rosters assorted states 20th Century World War I Civilian Draft Registrations about 15% of US counties are included here -- nearly 1.2 million names Also see: How to Find World War One Draft Cards World War I - U.S. Naval Deaths World War One Alien Registration Records - Indexes of German (and some Austrian) Aliens in the US 1917-1918 Arizona World War One Alien Registration Index (partial) Kansas World War One Alien Registrations St. Paul, Minnesota Alien Registrations Connecticut: World War I Veterans Database Florida World War One Service Cards Louisiana in World War I includes a list of casualties from Louisiana Missouri: World War I Service Cards Database 1917-1919 (more than 145,000 listings) Missouri: St. Louis City & County World War One Deaths Also see: St. Louis Genealogy Resources Pennsylvania: Soldiers of the Great War (World War I) listing of war dead Tennessee: World War One Veterans Index Soldiers of the First World War - Canadian Expeditionary Force (600,000 names) National German Military Grave Registration Service (this site is in German) This organization maintains a database of more than 2 million names of missing and dead German soldiers from both World Wars. You can search this database online or write to them for assistance. Notes for searching: Nachname=surname; Vorname=first name; supplying a date of birth or death is optional. Click on "Suche beginnen" to start your search. You then must register with your name and address to continue the search. On the registration form, the following items are required: Vorname (first name), Nachname (last name), Straße / Nr. (Street & Number), Land/Plz/Ort (Country/Postal or Zip Code/City). Then click on "Zur Ergebniseite" to continue. On the next screen click "Suchanfrage ausführen." The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (UK) Maintains records of graves of Commonwealth forces for both World Wars. Australia: World War Two Nominal Roll Database contains about 1 million entries Canadian Virtual War Memorial (Veterans Affairs Canada) (116,000 names) War Victims of Finland Database 1914-1922 File of fallen soldiers during the Second World War in Finland 1939-1945 World War II National Memorial Registry (USA) Pearl Harbor Casualty List World War II Casualties for Army & Army Air Forces Personnel (scanned documents listed by state) World War II Casualties for Navy, Marine Corps, & Coast Guard (scanned documents listed by state) Indiana World War II Servicemen Database from notices in Indianapolis newspapers Kansas: World War II Honor List of Dead & Missing 1941-1946 Korean War MIA & Aircraft Loss Databases (Department of Defense) POW-MIA database -- Korean War/Vietnam War (at Rootsweb) Lists of American Casualties from the Korean & Vietnam Wars State-level lists of casualties from the Korean conflict (1951-1957) and from the Vietnam conflict (1956-1998) from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Personnel Missing Southeast Asia (Vietnam War) POW/MIA (Department of Defense) Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall Page includes a searchable database of names on the wall Colorado Vietnam War Casualites June-December 1966 & January-December 1968 Access to Archival Databases (AAD) from the US National Archives - use the pull down menu to chose a topic or click on "all series." Included are many war related databases such as... World War II Prisoners of War File, ca. 1942 - ca. 1947 Japanese-American Internee File, 1942-1946 Korean Conflict Casualty Files Repatriated Korean Conflict Prisoners of War File, ca. 1978 - ca. 1980 Combat Area Casualties Database, ca. 1967 - ca. 12/1998 (includes Vietnam Casualties) Data File from the Casualty Information System, 1/1961-12/1981 (includes Vietnam Casualties) West Virginia Veterans Memorial Database (for 20th Century Wars) Recommended Book (available from Amazon.com)... World War II Military Records: A Family Historian's Guide by Debra Johnson Knox General Medals & Awards U.S. Army Medal of Honor Recipients (Civil War to the present) Purple Heart Recipients Database (not complete) American Battle Monuments Commission This organization maintains a listing of those buried at American military cemeteries overseas, and those Missing in Action from World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam. They also have a listing of Civil War, Mexican War and Spanish American War veterans buried in Mexico, and those who lost their lives during the Korean War. Many of their databases are searchable online. American Merchant Marine at War includes lists of Merchant Marine casualties & POWs Veterans Administration Burial Search for 120 National Cemeteries Colorado State Archives Veterans Graves Registrations 1862-1949 Montana in the Military ARIAS: Pennsylvania's Online Digital Archives Contains Pennsylvania historical records about the Revolutionary War, World War I and the Spanish American War with more to come, including Civil War records. There are 900,000 total records with 600,000 of those presently available online. Recommended Book (available from Amazon.com)... How to Locate Anyone Who Is or Has Been in the Military - Armed Forces Locator Guide by Richard S. Johnson & Debra Johnson Knox, with a forward by William C. Westmoreland databases that require payment the databases listed below (and many more) can be searched for a subscription fee at Ancestry.com Revolutionary War Revolutionary War Muster Rolls, 1775-83 (nearly 426,000 total names) Revolutionary War Pension Index (about 1700) Connecticut Men in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 Vermont Men in the Revolutionary War War of 1812 War of 1812 Muster Rolls (nearly 600,000) Civil War Civil War Muster Rolls (over 5.3 million) Civil War Pension Index [Union Soldiers] (nearly 2.5 million) Civil War Research Database [Confederate & Union] (over 2.1 million) Kentucky Confederate Volunteers Kentucky Union Volunteers Spanish American War Connecticut Servicemen, Spanish American War (over 3800) Indiana Spanish American War Records (over 7800) Massachusetts Spanish American War Records Minnesota Volunteers in the Spanish American War & the Philippine Insurrection (9,846 records) North Carolina Volunteers, Spanish American War (over 3900) Ohio Soldiers in the War with Spain, 1898-99 (more than 19,000 listings) Oregon Volunteers, Spanish American War & Philippine Insurrection (1581 listings) World War I World War One Draft Registration Cards Index (with digital images) Presently available for Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, Montana, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania & Texas. American Soldiers of World War I - Death Index arranged alphabetically by state Ohio Military Men, 1917-18 (World War One) (263,000 listings) Korean War & World War II Korean Conflict Death Index (about 33,000) WW II & Korean Veterans Interred Overseas (nearly 160,000) Vietnam War Vietnam Casualty Index (58,000) http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/military.html "Have A Beautiful Day" Connie *In Beautiful Western Kentucky* ¤ø,¸_¸,ø¤°`°¤ø,¸_¸,ø¤°°¤ø,¸_¸,ø¤°`°¤ø Connie's Links http://www.angelfire.com/ky2/connie/Links.html ¤ø,¸_¸,ø¤°`°¤ø,¸_¸,ø¤°°¤ø,¸_¸,ø¤°`°¤ø (\o/) How far that little candle throws his beams! /_\ So shines a good deed in a weary world. ~William Shakespeare~ ==== KYCHRIST Mailing List ==== Christian Co. History & Genealogy http://www.kyseeker.com/christian ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930