(This page's most recent update is October 2024)
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Military records are another useful set that will help you find out more about your ancestors. There are a ton of records that are available for free online, and there are some very robust collections (such as Fold3 and Ancestry) that have sizable online military collections as well.
Typically, military records online fall into 5 different categories:
- Military Service Records:
Includes enlistment information, such as location and date enlisted. Also includes demographic information, such as full name, birth date and location, residence, and occupation, plus contact information of next of kin, medical and military information, and unit assignations while in the military. - Selective Service Records:
Includes full name, residence, age, occupation, marital status, birthplace, contact information, physical description, and other information. - Bounty Land Warrant Applications:
Includes similar information as in service records as well as other information. Only used between 1775 and 1855. - Pension Records:
Will include birth, marriage, and death records, demographic information, plus information about the spouse, and possibly children. - Special Records:
May include information if the person was a prisoner of war, was wounded or killed in action. 1910-1940 Census Records include questions about military service. Includes those buried in Veteran’s cemeteries.
A good primer on Military Records is found on FamilySearch’s Military Records page, available on their wiki.
Note: Some links listed take you to a FamilySearch Collection of digital images. Near the bottom of the page under Film/Digital Notes is the name of each sub-collection. If there is a camera icon at the right of the name (in the Format column) then the collections’ images are browsable. If there is a camera with a key icon, it is only available at a Family History Center or affiliated library. If there is a film reel icon, then it is only available in microfilm format, not digital. To take full advantage make sure that you are logged in to FamilySearch. The results may be different if you are signed in, rather than not.
Below, listed by state are links to military records that are available for free online. Included in each state’s page are links to free nationwide collections since there are a sizable number of collections that are available for the entire country.
New Hampshire Military Records
National
- American Battle Monuments Commission – Korean War Honor Roll
- American Battle Monuments Commission Burials Database
- American Prisoners of War During the Korean War, 1950-1953
- Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations,1768-1921
- Card Register of Burials of Deceased American Soldiers, 1917 – 1922
- Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981
- Casualties of the Vietnam War, 1956-1998
- Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890
- Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917
- Civil War Confederate Applications for Pardons, 1865-1867
- Civil War Confederate Papers of Citizens or Businesses, 1861-1865
- Civil War Records of Confederate Nonregiment Soldiers, 1861-1865
- Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865
- Civil War Service Records of Union Colored Troops, 1863-1865
- Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1864-1866
- Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database
- Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865
- Civil War Unfiled Papers of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865
- Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files, 1861-1934
- Compiled Military Service Records Of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served With The Colored Troops, 1861-1866
- Confederate Navy and Marine Service Records, 1861-1865 Images only.
- Confederate Officers Card Index, 1861-1865
- Doughboy MIA Database 1917-1918
- Enlisted and Officer Muster Rolls and Rosters, 1916-1939
- General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 Index Only.
- Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1949
- Index to General Correspondence of the Pension Office, 1889-1904 Index only.
- Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926
- Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers, 1918
- Index to Service Records, War with Spain, 1898
- Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II, 1942-1946
- Japanese Registers of POWs WWII, Index.
- Korean War Battle Deaths, 1950-1957
- Korean War Dead and Army Wounded, 1950-1953
- Korean War POW/MIA List
- Korean War Repatriated Prisoners of War, 1950-1954
- Lists of Fatal Casualties of the Korean War (6/28/1950 – 3/10/1954) and the Vietnam War (6/8/1956 – 5/28/2006)
- Mexican War Index and Service Records, 1846-1848
- Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926
- Mexican War Soldiers & Sailors Database
- Military Personnel Who Died During the Vietnam War, 1956-2003
- Mormon Battalion Pension Applications, 1846-1923, Index
- Muster Rolls of the Marine Corps, 1798-1937, Index and Images
- National Archives, Archival Databases, Civil War
- National Archives, Archival Databases, Korean War
- National Archives, Archival Databases, Vietnam War
- National Archives, Archival Databases, World War II
- National Cemetery Administration – Nationwide Gravesite Locator
- National Graves Registration Database
- National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938 Partial Index and Images.
- National Park Service – US Mexican War Soldiers and Sailors Database
- National Society Daughters of 1812 – Ancestor Database
- Naval Enlistment Rendezvous, 1855-1891, Index and Images
- Navy Widows’ Certificates, 1861-1910, Index
- Never Forgotten, Taiwan POW List
- Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926
- Original Mormon Battalion Roster – Mormon Battalion Association
- Pearl Harbor Casualty List
- Prisoners of the First World War
- Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865
- Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903
- Register of Confederates and Civilians Who Died in the North,1861-1865
- Registers of Enlistments in the Army, 1798-1914
- Remarried Widows Index to Pension Applications, 1887-1942
- Revolutionary War Compiled Service Records, 1775-1783
- Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Applications, 1800-1900
- Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872
- Revolutionary War Records – Daughters of the American Revolution
- Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
- Revolutionary War, Virginia Pension Application Files, 1830-1875
- Roster of All Regimental Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons in the Late War, with the Service, and last-known Post-office Address (1882)” Compiled by N. A. Strait. The Text is Searchable.
- Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783
- Service Personnel Not Recovered Following WWII
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Military Servicemen in World War I Records
- United States French Combatants in the Revolutionary War, 1778-1783
- Veteran’s Administration Master Index, 1917-1940
- Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907-1933
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Vietnam War POW/MIA List
- War of 1812 Index to Pension Application Files, 1812-1910
- War of 1812 Index to Service Records, 1812-1815
- War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
- War Relocation Authority Centers, Final Accountability Rosters, 1942-1946
- World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 1917-1919
- World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
- World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
- World War II Casualties for Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard
- World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
- World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
- World War II Prisoners of War of the Japanese, 1941-1945
- World War II Prisoners of War, 1941-1945
- WWII Army and Army Air Force Casualties
- YMCA World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919
New Hampshire
- Canterbury Men at Bunker Hill
- Manchester Men: Soldiers and Sailors in the Civil War, 1861-’66
- New Hampshire Civil War History &Genealogy
- New Hampshire Men Killed or Mortally Wounded at Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775
- New Hampshire Men on the Massachusetts Revolutionary War Rolls
- New Hampshire Pensioners of Revolutionary War Struck Off the Roll
- New Hampshire Pensioners of the United States, 1818
- New Hampshire Pensioners on the Roll: 1883
- New Hampshire Revolutionary War Association Test
- New Hampshire Revolutionary War Records, 1675-1835
- New Hampshire Soldiers, Sailors and Marines in the Civil War
- New Hampshire World War 1 Dead, AEF
- New Hampshire World War 2 Navy, Marines, Coast Guard Casualty List
- New Hampshire, 1813 Pension List: New Hampshire
- New Hampshire, 1820 Pension List: New Hampshire
- New Hampshire, 1st New Hampshire Regiment
- New Hampshire, 2nd New Hampshire Regiment
- New Hampshire, 3rd New Hampshire Regiment
- New Hampshire, Civil War Enlistment Papers, Muster in and out Rolls 1861-1865 and Indexes 1861-1866, New Hampshire
- New Hampshire, Civil War Service and Pension Record 1861-1866
- New Hampshire, Civil War Service and Pension Records, 1861-1866
- New Hampshire, Claremont War History, April, 1861, to April 1, 1865: with Sketches of New-Hampshire Regiments, and a Biographical Notice of each Claremont Soldier, etc.
- New Hampshire, Complete Roster of the Eighth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers
- New Hampshire, Deaths of Pensioned Revolutionary War Officers for New Hampshire
- New Hampshire, Graves of Revolutionary War Soldiers in Hancocktown. N.H.
- New Hampshire, Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of New Hampshire
- New Hampshire, Men from Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont in New Hampshire Companies at Bunker Hill
- New Hampshire, Military Discharge Records, 1866-1880
- New Hampshire, Military Record of the Sons of Dartmouth in the Union Army and Navy, 1861-1865
- New Hampshire, Miscellaneous Military Records, Late 1600s-1914
- New Hampshire, Miscellaneous Revolutionary Documents of New Hampshire: including the Association Test, the Pension Rolls and Other important Papers
- New Hampshire, Pension Records Indexes and Pension Records by Town, 1861-1866 New Hampshire
- New Hampshire, Record Book of Custer Post No. 47, G.A.R. (Conway, New Hampshire)
- New Hampshire, Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866
- New Hampshire, Revolutionary War Graves of Soldiers Buried in New Hampshire
- New Hampshire, Revolutionary War Men Buried in New Hampshire: (marked with D. A. R. Markers)
- New Hampshire, Revolutionary War Records, 1675-1835
- New Hampshire, Revolutionary War Records, 1675-1835
- New Hampshire, Roll of New Hampshire Men at Bunker Hill June 17. 1775
- New Hampshire, Roll of New Hampshire Men at Louisburg, Cape Breton, 1745
- New Hampshire, Roll of New Hampshire Soldiers at the Battle of Bennington, August 16, 1777
- New Hampshire, Rolls and Documents Relating to Soldiers in the Revolutionary War: with an Appendix, embracing some Indian and French War Rolls
- New Hampshire, Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775, to May, 1777
- New Hampshire, Sanbornton NH Soldiers in the Civil War
- New Hampshire, Service Records, E. Wentworth Post 89 and Civil War Burials, Milton [New Hampshire], ca. 1776-1865
- New Hampshire, Soldiers Discharges, 1866-1880
- New Hampshire, The Seventh Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion
- New Hampshire, The Vietnam Veterans Memorial – New Hampshire
- New Hampshire, U.S. Military Fatal Casualties of the Vietnam War: New Hampshire
- New Hampshire, World War I Certificates of Service, 1675-1835
- New Hampshire, World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing State of New Hampshire
- New Hampshire: 1840 New Hampshire Census of Pensioners
- New Hampshire: U.S. Military Fatal Casualties of the Korean War: New Hampshire
- New London, Twenty-two Soldiers of the American Revolution
- Rochester, WWI Service Roll
- Strafford County, Revolutionary Pension Declarations, Strafford County, 1820-1832: Comprising Sketches of Soldiers of the Revolution
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!