User:MarkhamMJ/Sandbox:Jacobson

Finding Good Internet Sites about the War of 1812

 * 1) Check the Internet sites listed on the sites listed below.
 * 2) Add any of the sites that have name databases, lists of good links, or other things useful for genealogists.
 * 3) Put the name of the author of the site first, then the name of the site.
 * 4) Put a link on the name of the site or a particular part of the site.
 * 5) Add a brief explanation about the site, i.e. why a genealogist would want to go there.

General United States

 * National Society Daughters of the War of 1812, has a free search of its Ancestor Database and a list of other War of 1812 sites. It also has possibly the best library on the War of 1812.
 * National Society Daughters of the War of 1812, Great Timeline of the events of the war.
 * Naval History and Heritage Command, Officers of American Naval Victories in the War of 1812.
 * Naval History and Heritage Command, Officers of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps in the War of 1812.
 * Dartmoor Prison in England, American Deaths 1813-1815, The Society of the War of 1812 in the States of Illinois and Wisconsin, Compiled and verified by Ron Joy and Ira Dye, Lists Name, Rank, Unit/Ship, Date of Death, Home State/Town.
 * General Society of the War of 1812 has a list of state societies with contact information, and if available, links to their web sites. It also has a list of other War of 1812 sites.


 * America's Navy (U.S. Navy, Marines and Coast Guard), Bicentennial of the War of 1812 has a great interactive timeline. It also has a list of museums and memorials and a list of partner groups.


 * Naval History and Heritage Command, War of 1812, has links to many interesting sites, some with lists of soldiers names.


 * U.S. Naval Institute has a list of books and articles about the War of 1812.
 * Ancestry, War of 1812 Pension Application Files Index, 1812-1815.] Search first by surname. ($)
 * Fold3, War of 1812 Pension Files ($)


 * War of 1812 Service Records. Can be searched by surname only or by given and surname combination.
 * War of 1812 Discharge Certificates Fold3, Lists Units, Subunits, Company and Detachment Commanders, Soldiers by name and by unit.


 * War of 1812 Discharge Certificates, Government Archives, Listed by names, units, and subunits.


 * War of 1812, Family History Library Catalog
 * Name index to Pay Rolls of Militia Entitled to Land Bounty Under the Act of Congress of Sept. 28, 1850 and its supplement, Muster Rolls of the Virginia Militia in the War of 1812. Approximately 40,000 names are indexed.
 * War of 1812 Service Records Index (nearly 600,000 listings), Ancestry $
 * United States Army 39th Infantry Muster Roll A compilation of original muster rolls, dated May, 1814 from the National Archives, listing soldiers who fought at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in Colonel John Williams’ Regiment.
 * America POW's in War on 1812 who died at the British Internment Facility at Halifax.
 * List of Widows receiving pensions, War of 1812

Virginia
Category: Sandbox