1. Military records

2. Why are military records important to family history?

3. How to find military records?
Family Search Wiki
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Family Search Catalog
12,428 collection results for “military”
Ancestry.com
1,286 collections
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FHC Premium website
65 collections

4. Family Search Wiki
Revolutionary War,
United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors,
U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Applications Index
U.S., Revolutionary War Compiled Service Records,
U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls,
Muster Rolls and Other Records of Service of Maryland Troops in the American Revolution,
U.S., Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers,
Indian Wars, dates vary
U.S., Index to Indian Wars Pension Files,
War of 1812,
U.S., War of 1812 Index to Service Records,
United States War of 1812 Index to Pension Application Files,

5. Mexican War, 1846-1848 Mormon Battalion Civil War, 1861-1865
U.S., Mexican War Index and Service Records,
U.S., Mexican War Pension Index,
Mormon Battalion
United States Mormon Battalion Pension Applications,
Civil War,
General
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database
United States Civil War Soldiers Index,
United States Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files,
United States Civil War and Later Pension Index,
United States Confederate Navy and Marine Service Records,
U.S., Civil War Roll of Honor,

6. Civil War, 1861-1865 Union Soldiers
U.S., Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files
U.S., Civil War and Later Pension Index,
U.S., General Index to Pension Files,
U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files,
U.S., Union Soldiers Compiled Service Records,
United States Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers,
U.S., Remarried Widows Index to Pension Applications,
United States Civil War Service Records of Union Colored Troops,
United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans,
United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Individual Civilians,
United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Two or More Civilians,
United States, Freedmen's Bureau Hospital and Medical Records,
United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of the Assistant Commissioner,
United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of the Commissioner,
United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education,
United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890

7. Civil War, 1861-1865 Confederate Soldiers
U.S., Records of Confederate Prisoners of War,
U.S., Confederate Navy and Marine Service Records,
U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records,
U.S. Confederate Officers Card Index,
United States Civil War Confederate Applications for Pardons,
United States Civil War Confederate Papers of Citizens or Businesses,
United States Civil War Records of Confederate Nonregiment Soldiers,
United States Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers,
United States Civil War Unfiled Papers of Confederate Soldiers,
United States, Register of Confederates and Civilians Who Died in the North,

8. Spanish-American War, 1898 World War I, 1917-1918
U.S. Index to Service Records, War with Spain, 1898
World War I,
American Soldiers of World War I
U.S., Remarried Widows Index to Pension Applications,
U.S. WW I Draft Registration Cards,
U.S., WWI Troop Transport Ships,
World War II,
U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records,
United States, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men,
United States World War II Prisoners of War of the Japanese,
World War II Prisoners of War,
Never Forgotten, Taiwan POW List

9. Korean War,
United States American Prisoners of War During the Korean War,
United States Korean War Battle Deaths,
United States Korean War Dead and Army Wounded,
United States Korean War Repatriated Prisoners of War,
Vietnam,
United States Casualties of the Vietnam War,
United States Military Personnel who Died During the Vietnam War,

10. The easy way Family Search Ancestry.com
From the Person page in Family Tree, click on “Search Records” - Family Search
“Collections” tab, select desired collections
Left-hand search, “Restrict records by:” - Type, select “Military”
Ancestry.com
From the Person page in Family Tree, click on “Search Records” – Ancestry
Under “All Categories” on the left, select “Military”

11. World War 1

12. World War 1 Nicknames: First World War, Great War, War to End All Wars
Duration: 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918
Cause: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria on 28 June 1914
Participating Countries
Allies: Russia, France, United Kingdom; Italy, Japan, United States
Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary; Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria
Casualities
Military: 9,911,000
Civilian: 7,700,000
Total: 17,611,000

13. World War 1 Records United States Records
United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918
24,000,000 people recorded
3 separate registrations:
June 5, 1917, covering men ages 21–31
June 5, 1918, covering men who had turned 21 during that year
September 12, 1918, covering men ages 18–45

16. World War 1 Records United States Records (continued)
United States, YMCA World War I Service Cards, 1917–1919
United States, Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers, 1918
United States Muster Rolls of the Marine Corps, 1798–1937
Various State Collections
Louisiana, World War I Service Records,
Maine, World War I Draft Registration Index,
North Carolina, World War I Service Cards,
Texas World War I Records,
California, San Francisco, World War I Enemy Alien Registration Affidavits, 1918
The majority of the official military personnel files (OMPFs) for World War I were destroyed during a fire at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis in 1973

17. Easy Veteran Check
1930 US Census

18. World War 1 Records United Kingdom Records
United Kingdom World War I Service Records
These are the service files of soldiers who were discharged from the British army between 1914 and 1920.
United Kingdom World War I Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps Records
This interesting record batch covers 7,000 women.
United Kingdom, Chelsea Pensioners' Service Records,
This collection includes Chelsea Pensioners British Army Service Records from The records contain information on men pensioned out of the British Army.

23. What other global event happened during WWI?

24. 1918 Flu Pandemic Nickname: Spanish Flu
Duration: January 1918 to December 1920
Cause: H1N1 influenza virus
Casualities: 50,000,000 to 100,000,000
3-6 times more fatalities than WWI
killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS killed in 24 years
Killed more people in a year than the Black Death killed in a century

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