{"id":7164,"date":"2020-11-14T21:36:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T21:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/?p=7164"},"modified":"2020-11-14T21:36:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T21:36:04","slug":"a-wealth-of-military-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/a-wealth-of-military-records\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wealth of Military Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We just celebrated Veteran&#8217;s Day on November 11, commemorating the service and sacrifice of so<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7174 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/military-books-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/military-books-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/military-books.jpg 481w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/> many of our U.S. military servicemen and women. What we may not realize is that there is a huge variety of military records available for research. Many of these records include vital information, such as birth and death dates, as well as names of relatives.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some types of military records that can prove valuable in your research. You can find many of these record collections online (FamilySearch, Fold 3, Ancestry, MyHeritage, etc.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Benefits<\/li>\n<li>Bounty awards including land grants<\/li>\n<li>Citations<\/li>\n<li>Disability<\/li>\n<li>Discharges<\/li>\n<li>Enlistment<\/li>\n<li>Muster rolls<\/li>\n<li>National Guard<\/li>\n<li>Pension application and awards<\/li>\n<li>Ribbons<\/li>\n<li>Selective Service Board (Draft Registration)<\/li>\n<li>Service records<\/li>\n<li>Veterans records<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally, military information may be available in non-military records, such as cemetery records and obituaries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Military Service Resources in The Family History Guide<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Goal E1, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/project-9-united-statese1.html#a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Choice A<\/a> has links to articles and videos to help you learn more about various types of military records. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/project-9-united-statese1.html#a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Choice B<\/a> has tips for tracing your military ancestors, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/project-9-united-statese1.html#a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Choice C<\/a> explains how to use the resources available on the Fold 3 website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Military Conflicts Listed in The Family History Guide<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Goal E2, you&#8217;ll find links to articles and videos, as well as QUIKLinks to record collections, for the following conflicts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/project-9-united-statese2.html#a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Revolutionary War<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/project-9-united-statese2.html#b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Civil War<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/project-9-united-statese2.html#c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World War I<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/project-9-united-statese2.html#d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World War II<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/project-9-united-statese2.html#e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Korean War<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/project-9-united-statese2.html#f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Other Conflicts<\/a> (War of 1812, Spanish-American War, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Research Knowledgebase<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Research Knowledgebase in The Family History Guide also has some helpful references to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/research.html#mil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">military research and records<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just celebrated Veteran&#8217;s Day on November 11, commemorating the service and sacrifice of so many of our U.S. military servicemen and women. What we may not realize is that there is a huge variety of military records available for research. Many of these records include vital information, such as birth and death dates, as well as names of relatives.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,67],"tags":[367],"class_list":["post-7164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-u-s-research","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7164"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7176,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164\/revisions\/7176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}