Resources – Military Records

ALL WARS AND SERVICE

• American Battle Monuments Commission – Search graves of US soldiers buried in military cemeteries abroad.
• National Archives – St. Louis: Military Personnel Records (Order Form and Contact Information) These include Officers separated after June 29, 1917. Enlisted personnel separated after October 31, 1912. Many records were destroyed by fire in the St. Louis Center in 1973.
• National Archives – Washington DC: Military Service Records, Pensions, and Bounty Land Warrants (Order Form and Contact Information) These include Volunteers, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Confederate States, Pensions, Bounty Land Warrants 1775-1919. Specific itemization of available records may be studied on the linked site.
• Military Medals Database: Find Recipients of U.S. Honors
• Pennsylvania State Archives Military Collection – Colonial era through World War I
• Pennsylvania, Veterans Burial Cards, 1777-2012 (Ancestry.com)
  • Pennsylvania Records on Ancestry – FREE access to Pennsylvania records for Pennsylvania residents. If you are a Pennsylvania resident, take advantage of the partnership between the Pennsylvania State Archives and Ancestry.com to digitize family history records in the State Archives and make them available online. This partnership entitles Pennsylvanians free access to these collections. This access requires a free Ancestry.com Pennsylvania account. To begin, go to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission web site, enter your zip code in the form at the bottom of the page, and follow the link to the Ancestry.com Pennsylvania search page.
• U.S. Army Transport Service, Passenger Lists, 1910-1939 (Ancestry.com)
• U.S. Veterans Affairs: National Gravesite Locator – Search graves of US soldiers buried in military cemeteries on American soil.
• Veteran’s History Project – (Library of Congress)

War of 1812

• War of 1812 Pension Records (Fold3) – FREE access to approximately 180,000 pension and bounty land warrant application files relating to claims based on service between 1812 and 1815.

Civil War

• 85th Pennsylvania in the Civil War (Blog by Dan Clendaniel)
• All Quiet on the Border: The Civil War Era in Greene County, Pennsylvania (Facebook page expanding upon the book’s research – by author David Kent Fonner.)
• Memorial Day (1910): G. A. R. Souvenir Program, Waynesburg, Pa.
• U.S. National Park Service: Soldiers and Sailors Database

World War I

• History of the 110th Infantry (10th Pa.) of the 28th Division, U. S. A., 1917-1919 (Google Books)
• Memorial Services and Dedication of Tablet, Company K, 110th (10th Pa.) Infantry (1920) – Waynesburg, Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania, WWI Veterans Service and Compensation Files, 1917-1919, 1934-1948 (Ancestry.com)
  • Pennsylvania Records on Ancestry – FREE access to Pennsylvania records for Pennsylvania residents. If you are a Pennsylvania resident, take advantage of the partnership between the Pennsylvania State Archives and Ancestry.com to digitize family history records in the State Archives and make them available online. This partnership entitles Pennsylvanians free access to these collections. This access requires a free Ancestry.com Pennsylvania account. To begin, go to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission web site, enter your zip code in the form at the bottom of the page, and follow the link to the Ancestry.com Pennsylvania search page.
• Rain Day Boys – Greene County, PA soldiers who sacrificed their lives during World War I. Research posted includes the 18 Rain Day Boys and the complete roster of the 58 fallen heroes.
• U.S., Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940 (FamilySearch.org) – This collection contains an index to veterans who served at any time during World War I and who made (or whose heirs made) pension or benefits claims of the Veterans Administration between 1917 and 1940.
• U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 (FamilySearch.org)
• Waynesburg Republican: Greene County Soldiers’ Edition (4 July 1919)

World War II

• Pennsylvania, WWII Veteran Compensation Application Files, 1950-1966 (Ancestry.com)
  • Pennsylvania Records on Ancestry – FREE access to Pennsylvania records for Pennsylvania residents. If you are a Pennsylvania resident, take advantage of the partnership between the Pennsylvania State Archives and Ancestry.com to digitize family history records in the State Archives and make them available online. This partnership entitles Pennsylvanians free access to these collections. This access requires a free Ancestry.com Pennsylvania account. To begin, go to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission web site, enter your zip code in the form at the bottom of the page, and follow the link to the Ancestry.com Pennsylvania search page.
• U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 (FamilySearch.org)