U.S. Records Collection
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•  Search more than 750 million names compiled from over 3,000 historical databases.
•  Find your family’s war veterans in our assortment of military service records from the Revolutionary War, the Civil War and World War I.
•  Access 73 million names from the Social Security Death Index – one of the most current sources of information available online.
•  Learn about your ancestral hometown through city directories and local town histories.
•  Create a timeline of your ancestors’ lives with birth, marriage and death records as well as court, land and probate records.
•  Enhance your understanding of the past by reading historical journals, slave narratives and notable biographies.

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•  Major events like baptisms, weddings and burials can help you reconstruct the complete picture of your ancestor's personal life.
•  With land, court and probate records, you can find out if your ancestors owned a home or purchased property.
•  Relatives who died after 1962 are likely to be found in the Social Security Death Index. Learning more about these familiar generations can help you build the foundation for a larger family tree.
•  If you’re curious about relatives who may have fought in the Civil War, you can search for their pension records, regimental histories and possibly locate their gravesites.
•  Find a physical description of your grandfather or great-grandfather in World War I draft registration cards. Our collection is the largest on the Internet and still growing.

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US Records offers a range of historical material suited to beginners and experts alike. It’s also one of our most popular collections with records spanning the past five centuries. These records were compiled from a variety of different sources including the National Archives and Records Administration, state archives, libraries and other repositories located throughout the United States.

Try searching the U.S. Records Collection on Ancestry.com:
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