| Canadian Military Records
Previous chapters covered Canadian military records. As more information
is forthcoming that is not covered in the chapter it will be added
here.
In the U.S.
This was a review of several items you learned last semester. Remember,
you cannot order a pension AND service record on the same form from
the federal government. Each request must have its own form filled
out. Use this form for any military records prior to World War I
service. And please be patient as they receive thousands of orders
and it can take a month or three. This is why GRA, which provides
Record Lookup Services, has its own researchers in the National
Archives to obtain the information faster. While you can use Form
80 without having seen the various indices yourself, it is better
if you view the index rather than assume that a National Archives
government worker will correctly identify your soldier. If you decide
to rely on workers at the National Archives, you should take the
following precautions.
Since the workers first identify the existence of a file, then
send you a confirmation before asking for payment, you should also
write on the form that you would like to know the price to copy
the entire file. If you do not specifically request this, they will
select $10.00 worth of copies, and they may not copy the information
you need. If you provide as much information as you can on your
soldier besides the minimal information requested by the National
Archives, experienced searchers can check the indexes for you. You
can also request Record Lookup Services at www.GRAonline.com
to provide these other indexes and actual records once the index
has been located:
Confederate Service Records Index
Confederate Pension Files Index
Union Service Records Index
Union Pension Files Index
Confederate Service Records
Confederate Pension Files
Union Service Records
Union Pension Files
As with all immigration research, there is no guarantee that military
records will reveal the home town of an immigrant, but even if they
do not, you will still learn much about the immigrant, and that
will often lead to the record you need to discover his origin. |
