MILITARY RECORDS SOURCES IN NEW JERSEY
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• American Revolution & War of 1794-1815
  • New Jersey Archives - Revolutionary War, 1793 Militia Census, Wars of 1794-1815, and Mexican War (1846-1848) Cost: $5.00 per record; provide soldier's name; (records of militia, wars of 1794-1812, and Mexican War copied from published transcriptions).
  • Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War - NJ State Library [searchable]
  • The On-Line Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies
  • New Jersey Pensioners - 1840 Census
  • Roster of Officers listed in Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan (1799); General Commanding and NJ Regiments
  • Rutger's University Special Collection - 30,000 cards on New Jersey soldiers in the Revolution. Filed alphabetically by surname. Collection located in cabinet #1 in genealogy area.
    
• Mexican War, Spanish American War & National Guard
  • New Jersey Archives - Mexican War (1846-1848) Cost: $5.00 per record; provide soldier's name; (records of militia, wars of 1794-1812, and Mexican War copied from published transcriptions).
  • New Jersey Archives - Spanish-American War and National Guard records; cost: $5.00 per record; provide name, company, and regiment
  • Spanish-American War Infantry Officers
  • Spanish-American War Naval Officers
    
• Civil War
  • Civil War Soldier and Sailor Search Engine - FREE National Park Service search engine lets you search for a name, state, unit and function.
  • New Jersey Achives - Civil War records; cost: $10.00 per record; provide name, company, and regiment
  • Civil War Photographs of Soldiers [Carte-de-Visites], ca. 1861-1890s
  • Civil War Treasures from the New York Historical Society [searchable]
  • New Jersery - Roll of Honor - Union Soldiers interred in the Military Asylum Cemetery, D. C., opened on or
    about August 1, 1861, and closed May 12, 1864.
    
• World War I
  • New Jersey Archives - Records for World War I- cost: $5.00 each for a soldier's unofficial service record; provide name, county or major city of residence, and age. $5.00 fee for a photocopy of soldier's death information card and photograph (if included); may be available for soldiers who died while serving in WWI.
• World War II & Later
  • NARA - Military records from WWI - present are held in the National Military Personnel Records Center (NPRC), in St. Louis, Missouri, See details of holdings.
  • NARA - World War II Army Enlistment Records, documenting the period ca. 1938 - 1946 [searchable]
  • NARA - Records of World War II Prisoners of War, documenting the period 12/7/1941 - 11/19/1946 [searchable]
  • NARA - Korean War & Vietnam War Casualties, MIA databases [searchable]
  • New Jersey Korean War Memorial - List of names on memorial
  • NARA - Records of Deceased, Wounded, Ill, or Injured Army Personnel, Including Dependents and Civilian Employees, documenting the period 1/1/1961 - 12/1981 [searchable]
  • NARA - List of Military Databases available online
• Important Information Resource:
  • NARA (National Archives) - The National Archives holds Federal military service records from the Revolutionary War to 1912 in the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. See details of holdings. [See detail of holdings and how to order copies]
    
    

Other Suggested Areas of Research:

• Visit the COUNTY web site where the individual lived, or the event occurred, as additional information may be found there.
• Read a variety of articles on NARA regarding the research of military records, older and more recent
• Browse or post to Military Message Boards on Rootsweb (by war or conflict)
• Browse or post to Loyalist Message Boards on Rootsweb
• Browse or post to Daughters of the American Revolution Message Board on Rootsweb to inquire whether your ancestor is listed in the 'DAR Patriot Index.' (Remember, not every patriot of the American Revolution is listed in the DAR index -- but only those whose descendants applied to and became a member of the DAR).
• African Freedom Fighters - African Americans from the American Revolution to the present day