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Military Records Relationships RSS quote-openWere your ancestors war heroes? Consider it or not, essential clues to your familys account just might be beating away in military archives and judgment them can be easier than you think. Even if youre not certain whether or not any of your ancestors ever served in the military, it can pay to do some digging. The bribe can be huge.First some background about what youre looking for and why. Fires in 1800 and 1814 shattered the records of the American Military and Fleet servicemen that were detained at the War Department. In 1894, an attempt was made to reinstate these records from many different sources via abstracts, and individual packets of records were shaped for each serviceman.This pack of records was known as a Compiled Repair Record, and it limited information counting rank, military unit, time of admission into service, and discharge, or death.break It...quote-close