Southern Graves

WorldVitalRecords is offering free access to Colonial, Revolutionary War, and Daughters of the American Revolution databases through November 30th. This includes 200 free databases covering vital, court, and military records through the Revolutionary War. You can search everything from information on Mayflower families to lineages submitted by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Some noted databases: - Abstracts Of Wills And Inventories, Fairfax County, Virginia, 1742 - 1801 - Abstracts Of Wills, Inventories, And Administration Accounts Of Loudoun County, Virginia, 1757 - 1800 - American Wills Proved In London, 1611 - 1775 - Births, Deaths And Sponsors, 1717 - 1778 From The Albemarle Parish Register Of Surry And Sussex Counties, Virginia - Calendar Of Wills, 1626 - 1836 - Death Notices In The South-Carolina Gazette, 1732 - 1775 - Genealogical Abstracts From 18th-Century Virginia Newspapers - Known Military Dead During The American Revolutionary War, 1775 - 1783 - S...

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World Vital Records has recently added the Unpublished Roll of Honor by Mark Hughes to its subscription site. This book is an addition to the 27 volume Roll of Honor (link leads to Nos. I - VI) compiled by the U.S. Quartermaster's Department 1865-1871. The first compilation was "a listing of the names of over 300,000 Union soldiers buried in national cemeteries, garrison cemeteries, soldiers' lots, and private graveyards, more than two-thirds of the men having been disinterred from their original burial sites on or near the various battlefields." [Description on Genealogical.com website.] The Unpublished Roll of Honor includes "records of national cemeteries omitted from the original series, records of headstone requests (often for soldiers who were buried in private cemeteries), and records of post cemeteries that eluded the original compilers. All told, something like 8,500 men are listed here with (usually) their rank, company, and unit. The data is arrange...