Select Depository Resources for Genealogy Research
Federal Web Sites | Non-Federal Websites | Research Guides | Military Registers & Honors | Other
Federal & Military Web Sites (.gov & .mil)
- Burial Listings (American Battle Monuments Commission)
- Civil War Soldiers & Sailors Systems
- Civilian Personnel Records
- Defense Prisoner of War / Missing Personnel Office
- Federal Land Records
- Military Personnel Records
- Selected Historic Census Data
Non-Federal Websites
- American Family Immigration History Center
- Boys in Blue Database (Lincoln Presidential Library)
- Index to Oklahoma Confederate Pension Records pdf (records available at the Oklahoma Historical Society)
- Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion (Cornell University's Making of America) : scroll down to browse or search
- Social Security Death Index
Guides to Genealogical Research
- Genealogy at the National Archives
- Genealogical Records in the Government Documents Department (Ohio Unversity Libraries)
- Genealogical Resources in U.S. Federal Depository Libraries pdf (Oklahoma Department of Libraries)
- Indian Health Service -- Native American Genealogy Resources
- Where to write for Vital Records (CDC)
Military Registries & Honors
@ the Central Library
- American Armies and Battlefields in Europe (D114.2: Ar5/4/992)
- Decorations, United States Army 1862-1926 (355.13 U58)
- Black Americans in Defense of Our Nation (355.008996073 B561 1982)
- Commanding General and Chiets of Staff: portraits and biographical sketches (D 114.2: G28/775-95)
- Dictionary of American naval fighting ships (359.3250973 D561 1991)
- Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from it's organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 vols. 1 & 2 (355.30976 H36 1965)
- Medal of Honor Recipients, 1863-1978 (355.134 U58 1979)
- Medal of Honor Recipients, 1979-2003 (355.134 R394m 2003)
- Medal of Honor of the United States Army (355.13 U582)
- Officers in the Marine Corps Reserve (D 214.11/3: Microfiche)
- Official Army National Guard Register (D 12:9)
- Official Register of the United States: persons in the civil, military, and naval service, exclusive of the Postal Service (C 3.10:)
- Register of the Army of the United State, Aug 1813 (W 3.11:)
- Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Reserve Officers on Active Duty (D 208.12: Microfiche)
- Register of Retired Commissioned and Warrant Officers, regular and reserve, of the United States Navy (D 208.12/3: Microfiche)
- Secretaries of War and Secretaries of the Army: portraits and sketches (D114.2: Se 2/2003)
- The Sergeants Major of the Army (D 114.2: Se 6/2/2003)
- U.S. Army Register (W 3.11: & ID 102.9:)
@ the Genealogy Center
- Abstracts of Service Records of Naval Officers, 1829-1924 (359.332 A164)
- Armies, Corps, Divisions and Separate Brigades (355.30973 W694ar)
- Complete General Army Register of the United States of America: from the Time of the Revolutionary War to the Present (353.6 H17)
- List of Officers of the Army of the United States from 1779 to 1900 (359.3320973 C13)
- List of Officers of the Navy of the United States and of the Marine Corps from 1775 to 1900 (359.3320973 C13)
- Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion (973.75 U58)
- The Union: a guide to federal archives relating to the Civil War (973.7 M923u)
- The War of the Rebellion: a compiliation of the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies (973.7 U58)
Other helpful Government Materials
- Annual Report of the Attorney General of the United States (J1.1: Microfiche)
- CIS U.S. serial set index (328.73 C763 1975)
- Genealogical Research at the Library of Congress (LC 1.2:G 28/997)
- Guide to American Indian Documents in the Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1899 (328.73 J637g 1977)
- Guide to the National Archives of the United States (GS 4.6/2 N 21)
- Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789 (LC 1.34:)
- Measuring America: The Decennial Census from 1790-2000 (304.60973 M463 2002)
- United States Congressional Serial Set (Y 1.1/2:Serial)
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