United States, Confederate Navy and Marine Service Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

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What is in This Collection?
This collection contains images of naval and marine service records, consisting of card abstracts of vessel papers, pay rolls, muster rolls, hospital and prison records including some original documents relating to service in the Confederate Navy and Marine Corps. This is NARA microfilm publication M260 and is from Record Group 109 War Department Collection of Confederate Records.

What Is in This Collection?
Information varies between individual records. They may include:


 * Name of serviceman
 * Name of vessel where served
 * When and where captured
 * When and where confined
 * When exchanged
 * Register number and page
 * Remarks which may include death and burial details

How Do I Search This Collection?
Before searching this collection, it is helpful to know:

List items that will help people search the collection. Be careful not to intimidate searchers by listing too many items. For example:
 * Name of the person
 * Branch of Service

View the Images
'''View images in this collection by visiting the Browse Page.
 * 1) Select Document Type
 * 2) Select Surname Range

What Do I Do Next?
When you have located your ancestor’s service record, carefully evaluate each piece of information given. Save a copy of the image or transcribe the information. These pieces of information may give you new biographical details and leads to other records about your ancestors. Add this new information to your records of each family.

I Found the Person I Was Looking For, What Now?

 * Continue to search the index and records to identify other relatives.
 * When looking for a person who had a common name, look at all the entries for the name before deciding which is correct.
 * You may need to compare the information of more than one family or person to make this determination.
 * Be aware that, as with any index, transcription errors may occur.

I Can't Find the Person I'm Looking For, What Now?

 * Look for variant spellings of the names. You should also look for alias names, nicknames and abbreviated names.
 * Look for an index. There are often indexes at the beginning of each volume. Local genealogical and historical societies often have indexes to local records.

Citing This Collection
Citing your sources makes it easy for others to find and evaluate the records you used. When you copy information from a record, list where you found that information. Here you can find citations already created for the entire collection and for each individual record or image.

"United States, Confederate Navy and Marine Service Records, 1861-1865." Images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : accessed 2017. Citing NARA microfilm publication M260. National Archives, Washington D.C.
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