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Finding Good Internet Sites about the War of 1812

 * 1) Check the Internet for good War of 1812 sites. Do a Google search for each state with War of 1812 for:
 * adjutant general, check the web site archive.org
 * historical society
 * state library
 * genealogical society
 * bicentennial committee
 * For example: Delaware war of 1812
 * 1) Add any of the sites that have name databases, lists of good links, or other things useful for genealogists.
 * 2) Put the name of the author first, then the name of the site.
 * 3) Put a link on the name of the site or a particular part of the site.
 * 4) Add a brief explanation about the site, i.e. why a genealogist would want to go there.

Connecticut

 * Internet Archive, Adjutant General Reports, section on the War of 1812.


 * Connecticut State Library, Research Guide to War of 1812 Sources, and the more general, Research Guide to Manuscript Military Resources, show what is available at the Connecticut State Libra
 * Fold3 - Digital images of War of 1812 Pension Fileswww.fold3.com/browse.php#247|h5iT6dgqRf_6__MA7 and Service Records, Incomplete as of 5/2012 ($)

Delaware

 * Fold3 - Digital images of War of 1812 Pension Files |h5iT6dgqRK_Wju36Y www.fold3.com/browse.php#247|h5iT6dgqRK_Wju36Y Incomplete as of 5/2012 ($)

District of Columbia

 * Fold3 - Digital images of War of 1812 Pension Files|h5iT6dgqR6IYLTBPZ www.fold3.com/browse.php#247|h5iT6dgqR6IYLTBPZ Incomplete as of 5/2012 ($) Georgia

Maryland

 * Marine, William M. The British Invasion of Maryland 1812 – 1815.www.archive.org/stream/britishinvasion00mary#page/n4/mode/1upLists Maryland roster of military units and alphabetical index to 11,000 names in the Appendixwww.archive.org/stream/britishinvasion00mary#page/195/mode/1upix.

Massachusetts

 * Massachusetts. Adjutant General's Office; Baker, John, Records of the Massachusetts volunteer militia called out by the Governor of Massachusetts to suppress a threatened invasion during the war of 1812-14, (Boston: Wright and Potter Printing Co., state printers, 1913), index of names.


 * Newberry Library, War of 1812 Resources


 * Massachusetts, War of 1812

Michigan

 * Fold3 - Digital images of War of 1812 Pension Files|h5iT6dgqRWtpZRv66 www.fold3.com/browse.php#247|h5iT6dgqRWtpZRv66 Incomplete as of 5/2012 ($)

Mississippi

 * Fold3 - Digital images of War of 1812 Pension Files|h5iT6dgqRBBQt_jME www.fold3.com/browse.php#247|h5iT6dgqRBBQt_jME and Service Records, Incomplete as of 5/2012 ($)

Ohio

 * Ohio Historical Society, War of 1812 Roster of Ohio Soldiers

Virginia

 * Pay Rolls of Militia Entitled to Land Bounty Under the Act of Congress of Sept. 28, 1850 (Richmond, 1851) and Muster Rolls of the Virginia Militia in the War of 1812 (Richmond, 1852). www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/rn19_sold.htm Online searchable database of 40,000 names.lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/