Name of War	Dates	Birth Years
Revolutionary War	1775-1783	1720-1765
War of 1812	1812-1815	1757-1798
Mexican-American War	1846-1848	1791-1831
Civil War	1861-1865	1806-1848
Spanish American War	1898	1843-1881
World War I	1917-1918	1862-1901
World War II	1941-1945	1886-1928
Korean War	1950-1953	1895-1936
Viet Nam	1965-1973	1904-1958

 

Types of Records in Ancestry.Com Databases

Draft, Enlistment and Service:

Civil War Draft Registratioin Records 1863-1865

Union Soldiers Compiles Service Records 1861-1865

World War I Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918

U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records 1938-1946

U.S. Rosters of WWII Dead 1939-1945

Casualties:

            Colonial America through Viet Nam

            German WWI casualty list in German

            WWI New Zealand Casualty List

            Canadian War Graves Register

            US Viet Nam Casualties List 1956-1998

            California WWI Death Announcements 1918-1921

            Iowa Civil War Soldier Burial Records

            Maine Compiled Military Records 1812-1865

            Panama Canal Zone, Gorgas Hospital Mortuary Records 1906-1991

            Illinois Rev War Veterans Burials

    Columbus, Franklin Co, Ohio, Camp Chase Cemetery

Soldier, Veteran and Prison Rolls and Lists

Pension Records

            US Civil War Pension Index; General Index to Pensions 1861-1934

            Rev War

            WWI

            WWII

            Some UK and Canadian pension databases

Histories

Regimental, Battles, Wars, State Military Records and Rosters, Correspondences, and Chronicles

Awards and Decorations of Honor

News

            Stars and Stripes

            German Publications

            British War Honors Scrapbook

            Abraham Lincoln Papers

            NY WWI Veterans Service Data 1913-1919

Disciplenary Actions

     Rev War Courts Martials

            Loyalists in NC

Photos

            United News Reels

 

 

Military Hints in US Census Records

            1840-Rev War Pensioners or Widows

            1890 Special Veterans Schedule of Union Soldiers and Widows

            1910 Census- Survivors of Union and Confederate Army and Navy Vets

            1930 Census-Military service of any war through WWI

 

International Military Records

            United Kingdom

            Germany

British-(American) -French and Indian Wars

The Boer War

WWI

Need the World Explorer Membership to access most International Records

Non-Ancestry.com Databases

            Cyndislist.com

            Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System www.nps.gov/civilwar/soldiers-and-sailors-database

            DAR www.dar.org

            Family Search.org

            Valley Forge Muster Rolls- www.valleyforgemusterroll.org/muster.asp

            War of 1812 Pension Digitalization Project www.fgs.org/1812

            Library of Virginia Index to War of 1812 Pay Rolls and Muster Rolls   lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas12&local_base=Clas12