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Latest Changes: 07Oct02 - link to The Online Genealogy Library / 07Oct17 - links to SAR and DAR Bulletin Boards / 07Dec23- reformat return links /

Find Your U.S. Patriot A searchable database with over 220,000 records of people with service in the American Revolution. Note: This database does not list all known patriots. If you don't find your ancestor here, look through the resources below, which contain hundreds of thousands of records.

Documenting U.S. Service Links to online lists and notes on the major print records related to civil and military service: National and State leadership, Military Service Records, Bounty Land, Pension Applications, Prisoners of War, Gravesites, Ethnic and Social Groups, and SAR/DAR Archives.
See also U.S. Land Units and U.S. Naval Units and Ships

Document Your Line
back to that Ancestor The Genealogy Committee of the Sons of the American Revolution has posted many annotated links to on-line and print genealogical resources for the U.S. going back to 1700. The committee also has a link to an on-line tutorial showing how to locate documents that support your claim to a lineage back to a known patriot ancestor.
See also The Online Genealogy Library
-- a free Google(TM) Book service which lists and links to hundreds of digital, every-word-searchable, published genealogies, local histories, compiled vital records, and more.

Still Have Questions?
Search External Sources Suggestions for making queries about your patriot on external sites; annotated links to the major documentation search / page display engines.

Find Your French Ally Patriot Search enlistment rosters and officer lists for French (land and sea) military units. One searchable database has over 40,000 names for French military personnel during 1780-1783.
See also French regiments and ships.

Find Your Spanish Ally Patriot Search enlistment rosters and officer lists for the Spanish (land and sea) military units during 1780-1783. There is little posted here at present.
See also Spanish regiments and ships. There is little posted here at present.

A Master Roster of U.S. Patriots Several sample databases mark the beginning of a cooperative effort to develop a multi-state listing of patriots with their military or non-military service record. If you wish to prepare and submit databases in a format that allows for easy merger into the main database please read the
Guidelines for Submitting a Roster

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Find Your U.S. Patriot	A searchable database with over 220,000 records of people with service in the American Revolution. Note: This database does not list all known patriots. If you don't find your ancestor here, look through the resources below, which contain hundreds of thousands of records.
Documenting U.S. Service	Links to online lists and notes on the major print records related to civil and military service: National and State leadership, Military Service Records, Bounty Land, Pension Applications, Prisoners of War, Gravesites, Ethnic and Social Groups, and SAR/DAR Archives. See also U.S. Land Units and U.S. Naval Units and Ships
Document Your Line back to that Ancestor	The Genealogy Committee of the Sons of the American Revolution has posted many annotated links to on-line and print genealogical resources for the U.S. going back to 1700. The committee also has a link to an on-line tutorial showing how to locate documents that support your claim to a lineage back to a known patriot ancestor. See also The Online Genealogy Library -- a free Google(TM) Book service which lists and links to hundreds of digital, every-word-searchable, published genealogies, local histories, compiled vital records, and more.
Still Have Questions? Search External Sources	Suggestions for making queries about your patriot on external sites; annotated links to the major documentation search / page display engines.
Find Your French Ally Patriot	Search enlistment rosters and officer lists for French (land and sea) military units. One searchable database has over 40,000 names for French military personnel during 1780-1783. See also French regiments and ships.
Find Your Spanish Ally Patriot	Search enlistment rosters and officer lists for the Spanish (land and sea) military units during 1780-1783. There is little posted here at present. See also Spanish regiments and ships. There is little posted here at present.
A Master Roster of U.S. Patriots	Several sample databases mark the beginning of a cooperative effort to develop a multi-state listing of patriots with their military or non-military service record. If you wish to prepare and submit databases in a format that allows for easy merger into the main database please read the Guidelines for Submitting a Roster