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Delaware Birth, Marriage, & Death Records

Birth Records

• United States Births and Christenings, 1867-1931, index & images
• Delaware Baptisms, 1697-1886, index
• Delaware Births and Christenings, 1710-1896, index
• Delaware, Church Records, 1707-1939, index links to images
• Delaware State Birth Records, 1861-1922, index & images
• Delaware Vital Record Index Cards, 1680-1934, index & images
• Delaware Vital Records, 1650-1974, index & images
• Delaware, birth certificates, 1921-1929; birth index cards, 1913-1930, 1860-1930
• Delaware, birth index, 1650-1942; birth and baptism index, 1650-1913, 1650-1942
• Delaware, births-baptisms index, ca. 1700-1960
• Delaware birth records, prior 1913 (1861-1912) – 1923
• Delaware – Birth records (certificates and returns) 1861-1913
• Delaware – Index cards of Delaware marriages, baptisms, births and deaths, ca. 1680-ca. 1934
• Delaware – Rodney’s diary and other Delaware records
• Wilmington – Delaware, Wilmington Vital Records, 1847-1954, index & images

Marriage Records

• United States Western States Marriage Index, index
• United States, GenealogyBank Historic Newspaper Marriages, 1815-2011, index links to images
• Delaware Marriage Records, 1913-1954, index & images
• Delaware Marriages and Marriage Licenses, 1683-1894, index
• Delaware Marriages, 1713-1919, index
• Delaware Vital Record Index Cards, 1680-1934, index & images
• Delaware Vital Records, 1650-1974, index & images
• Delaware, Church Records, 1707-1939, index links to images
• Delaware, marriage records, ca. 1650-1980
• Delaware – Marriage bonds, 1855-1861, and marriage licenses, 1889-1894
• Delaware – Marriage records of Reverend Samuel R. Slack who officiated at weddings in Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Virginia, 1848-1881
• Delaware – Marriage records, pre-1913 (1865-Jan 1913) – 1954
• Delaware marriages and marriage licenses, 1713-1894
• Delaware, index to marriage records, ca. 1650-1960
• Delaware, marriage index cards, 1913-1962
• Delaware – Index cards of Delaware marriages, baptisms, births and deaths, ca. 1680-ca. 1934
• Delaware – Rodney’s diary and other Delaware records
• New Castle County – A list of marriage license bonds, so far as they have been preserved in New Castle County, Delaware, 1744-1836
• Wilmington – Delaware, Wilmington Vital Records, 1847-1954, index & images

Death Records

• United States Social Security Death Index, index
• United States Deaths and Burials, 1867-1961, index & images
• United States Deceased Physician File (AMA), 1864-1968, index & images
• United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 1917-1919, index links to images
• Delaware Church Deaths, 1750-1886, index
• Delaware Death Records, 1855-1961, index & images
• Delaware Deaths and Burials, 1815-1955, index
• Delaware Vital Record Index Cards, 1680-1934, index & images
• Delaware Vital Records, 1650-1974, index & images
• Delaware, Church Records, 1707-1939, index links to images
• Delaware, death certificates and card file index, 1650-1974
• Death records, 1855-1910
• Death records, 1910-1955
• Delaware, death-burial index, ca. 1700-1960
• Delaware vital records, 1650-1974
• Delaware – Rodney’s diary and other Delaware records
• Wilmington – Delaware, Wilmington Vital Records, 1847-1954, index & images

Cemeteries

• Find A Grave Index, index links to images
• BillionGraves Index, index links to images
• United States, Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations,1768-1921, index & images
• United States, Cemetery Abstracts, index links to images
• United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images
• Genealogical collection : of miscellaneous church, cemetery and vital records of Delaware, Maryland and New Jersey
• New Leeds graveyard
• Delaware, cemeteries-tombstones, ca. 1700-1960

Obituaries

• United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011, index links to images
• United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014, index & images
• United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images
• Currentobituary.com index, 2001-2014, index links to images
• Delaware obituaries, 1991-2014

Wills & Probate

• Abstracts of some early Delaware wills.
• Delaware wills [Thomas Montgomery and Robert Montgomery]
• Philadelphia administrations, 1683-1744 [abstracts]
• Rodney’s diary and other Delaware records

Delaware Residence Records

Census

• 1790 – Reconstructed 1790 census of Delaware
• 1790 – Reconstructed 1790 census of Delaware
• 1800 – 1800 census, Delaware
• 1800 – Delaware, 1800-1840 federal census : population schedules
• 1800 – Delaware, 1800-1840 federal census: population schedules
• 1800 – United States Census, 1800, index & images
• 1810 – United States Census, 1810, index & images
• 1820 – United States Census, 1820, index & images
• 1830 – United States Census, 1830, index & images
• 1840 – United States Census, 1840, index & images
• 1848 – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images
• 1850 – Delaware, 1850 federal census : population schedules
• 1850 – United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850, index & images
• 1850 – United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850, index & images
• 1850 – United States census of Delaware; persons who died during the [census] year, 1850-1880
• 1850 – United States census of Delaware; persons who died during the [census] year, 1850-1880
• 1850 – United States census of Delaware; persons who died during the [census] year, 1850-1880
• 1850 – United States Census, 1850, index & images
• 1860 – Delaware, 1860 federal census : population schedules
• 1860 – United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860, index & images
• 1860 – United States Census, 1860, index & images
• 1870 – Delaware, 1870 federal census : population schedules
• 1870 – United States Census, 1870, index & images
• 1880 – Delaware, 1880 federal census : soundex and population schedules
• 1880 – United States census of Delaware, social statistics schedules, 1850-1870
• 1880 – United States census of Delaware, supplemental schedules for the defective, dependent, and delinquent classes, 1880
• 1880 – United States Census, 1880, index & images
• 1885 – United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images
• 1890 – United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890, index & images
• 1900 – Delaware, 1900 federal census : soundex and population schedules
• 1900 – Delaware, 1900 federal census : soundex and population schedules
• 1900 – United States Census, 1900, index & images
• 1908 – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images
• 1910 – Delaware, 1910 federal census : population schedules
• 1910 – United States Census, 1910, index & images
• 1920 – Delaware, 1920 federal census : soundex and population schedules
• 1920 – United States Census, 1920, index & images
• 1930 – Delaware, 1930 federal census : population schedules ; NARA microfilm publication T626
• 1930 – United States Census of Merchant Seamen, 1930, index & images
• 1930 – United States Census, 1930, index & images
• 1940 – Delaware, 1940 population census : population schedules
• 1940 – United States Census, 1940, index & images
• 1950 – On Our Cover: [Delaware 1950 census]
• 1950 – On Our Cover: Delaware 1950 census

Directories

• Governor’s register, state of Delaware : appointments and other transactions by Executives of the State from 1674 to 1851

Emigration/Immigration/Migration

• United States Index to Alien Case Files, 1940-2003, index links to images
• A History, including genealogical notes on families of the Baptist denomination who emigrated from counties Pembroke and Carmarthen to Delaware and Pennsylvania, 1701
• United States Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956, index
• United States Border Crossings from Mexico to United States, 1903-1957, index
• United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925, index & images

Land & Property

• Original land titles in Delaware, commonly known as the Duke of York record : being an authorized transcript from the official archives of the state of Delaware and comprising the letters patent, permits, commissions, surveys, plats and confirmations by the Duke of York and other high officials, from 1646 to 1679
• Rodney’s diary and other Delaware records
• Warrants and surveys of the province of Pennsylvania including the three lower counties, 1759
• Warrants and surveys of the province of Pennsylvania, 1682-1759 : transcribed from the records of the Surveyor General’s and Proprietaries Secretary’s offices by John Hughes, recorder of warrants and surveys under the Act of Assembly July 7, 1759; with a guide to the books and index, an historical background and a copy of the Act
• Delaware, Kent County, land records indexes, ca. 1680-1968

Maps, Almanacs, & Gazetteers

• Delaware place names
• Historic map collection : reprints of historic maps, featuring town, village and county maps of the northeast and selection of state and foreign maps.

Naturalization & Citizenship

• Delaware, County Naturalization Records, 1796-1958, index & images
• Delaware, County naturalization records, 1796-1958
• Naturalization petitions of the U.S. District and Circuit Courts for the District of Delaware, 1795-1930 ; index to naturalization petitions for the U.S. Circuit Court, 1795-1911, and District Court, 1795-1928, for the District of Delaware : NARA RG21 publications M1644 and M1649
• Naturalization petitions of the U.S. District and Circuit Courts for the District of Delaware, 1795-1930 ; index to naturalization petitions for the U.S. Circuit Court, 1795-1911, and District Court, 1795-1928, for the District of Delaware : NARA RG21 publications M1644 and M1649

Passport

• United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925, index & images

Pension

• United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images
• United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images
• United States Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926, index & images

Taxes

• Internal revenue assessment lists for Delaware, 1862-1866
• Internal revenue assessment lists for Delaware, 1862-1866 : National Archives microfilm publications, pamphlet accompanying microcopy no. 759
• Rateables, 1863

Delaware Daily Life Records

Bible Records

• Bible records [Pennsylvania]
• Bible records [Pennsylvania], v. 9
• Bible records in the Sophie Selden Rogers collection
• Delaware, bible record collection, ca. 1680-2000
• Old Bible records
• Rodney’s diary and other Delaware records

Biography

• Addresses delivered at the formal presentation of the portraits of the governors of Delaware to the State : Thursday, May 26th, 1898, State Capitol, Dover, Delaware
• Biographical and genealogical history of the state of Delaware
• Biographical and genealogical history of the state of Delaware : containing biographical and genealogical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settlers
• Biographical sketches of prominent Delawareans
• Delaware, a history of the first state
• Early clergy of Pennsylvania and Delaware
• Forgotten heroes of Delaware
• Historical and biographical encyclopaedia of Delaware
• History of Delaware, past and present
• John Thomson : Presbyterian constitutionalist, minister of the word of God, educational leader and church builder
• Old Delaware clock-makers

Buildings, Dwellings, etc

• Colonial mansions of Maryland and Delaware

Business Records & Commerce

• Sussex County private accounts

Church

• Directory of churches and religious organizations in Delaware
• Early clergy of Pennsylvania and Delaware
• Historical collections relating to the American colonial church
• A history of the Baptists in the middle states
• A history of the original settlements on the Delaware, from its discovery by Hudson to the colonization under William Penn : to which is added an account of the ecclesiastical affairs of the Swedish settlers, and a history of Wilmington, from its first settlement to the present time
• Joseph Nichols and the Nicholites : A look at the “New Quakers” of Maryland, Delaware, North and South Carolina
• Manuscript copy of the history of Baptist in Delaware
• Materials towards a history of the Baptists
• Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia
• Church records (New York-Philadelphia District), 1867-1965
• Delaware, Kent, Dover, Holy Cross Catholic Church records, 1869-1984
• Marriage, baptismal, conversion, burial register of the Rev. Joseph Mosley, S.J. & Rev. John Bolton, S.J. in St. Mary’s Co., Maryland, the eastern shore of Maryland and Delaware from 1763-1802
• Pre-1868 parish registers of the Diocese of Wilmington
• Register of St. George’s Methodist Episcopal Church, Clarksville, Del., 1907-1914
• Delaware baptisms, 1697-1886
• Delaware births and christenings, 1710-1896
• Delaware church deaths, 1750-1886
• Delaware deaths and burials, 1815-1955
• Delaware marriages, 1713-1919
• Delaware vital record index cards, 1680-1934
• Delaware, births-baptisms index, ca. 1700-1960
• Index cards of Delaware marriages, baptisms, births and deaths, ca. 1680-ca. 1934
• Inventory of the Church archives of Delaware : Lutheran Church and Protestant Episcopal Church

Colonization

• The settlements on the Delaware prior to the coming of William Penn

Court Records

• The colonial and state judiciary of Delaware
• Delaware Orphan Court records, 1720-1975
• Delaware, chancery records card file index, 1746-1830

Description and Travel

• Highways and byways from the St. Lawrence to Virginia

Employment Records

• Old Delaware clock-makers
• Officers of the colonies on the Delaware, 1614-1681
• Provincial officers of the three lower counties, New Castle, Kent, and Sussex
• United States National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel Files, 1954-1970, index

Ethnic Records

African American Records

• United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index links to images
• United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedman’s Bank Records, 1865-1874, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Claim Records,1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Hospital and Medical Records, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Records of Persons and Articles Hired, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Freedmen’s Court Records, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen’s Complaints, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872, index & images

Japanese American Records

• United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946, index & images

Native American Records

• United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images
• United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images
• United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images
• United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images
• Delaware’s forgotten folk : the story of the Moors & Nanticokes
• The names Susquehanna and Chesapeake

Minorities

• Historical sketches of the Swedes on the Delaware
• Maryland and Delaware, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office records, 1865-1872
• Miscellaneous records pertaining to early Swedish settlements in Pennsylvania, New Jersey & Delaware
• Records of the field offices for the states of Maryland and Delaware, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 : NARA, RG105, M1906
• Swedish landmarks in the Delaware Valley

Genealogy

• Ancient families of Bohemia Manor : their homes and their graves
• Biographical and genealogical history of the state of Delaware
• Biographical and genealogical history of the state of Delaware : containing biographical and genealogical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settlers
• Delaware, a history of the first state
• Genealogical data regarding families mainly from Delaware and Maryland
• A History, including genealogical notes on families of the Baptist denomination who emigrated from counties Pembroke and Carmarthen to Delaware and Pennsylvania, 1701
• Miscellaneous records, church records, wills, marriages, family records, tombstone inscriptions : of many counties and states in the U.S., 1699-1955
• Old Bible records
• Reverend Joseph Brown Turner collection
• Hartford Times scrapbooks index
• Genealogical material regarding Kent County, Delaware families : genealogical and historical notes of Charles W. Lord
• Genealogical research in Pennsylvania and Delaware
• Index to Genealogical notes, Sussex County and Kent County, Delaware, Somerset County and Worcester County, Maryland

Historical Geography

• Address on the history of the boundaries of the state of Delaware

History

• An address, embracing the early history of Delaware, and the settlement of its boundaries and of the Drawyers Congregation, with all the churches since organized on its original territory : delivered in Drawyers Church, Del., May 10, 1842, being one hundred and thirty-one years since the site of the present house of worship was purchased
• Ancient families of Bohemia Manor: their homes and their graves
• The colonial and state judiciary of Delaware
• Colonial mansions of Maryland and Delaware
• Delaware and the eastern shore : some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved
• Delaware and the eastern shore : some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved
• Delaware, a history of the first state
• The early settlements on the Delaware
• The European background of those who colonized Delaware : an address delivered before the Parent Teachers Association of the Caesar Rodney High School of Camden-Wyoming, Delaware
• Forgotten heroes of Delaware
• Historical and biographical encyclopaedia of Delaware
• History of Delaware, 1609-1888
• History of Delaware, past and present
• A history of the original settlements on the Delaware, from its discovery by Hudson to the colonization under William Penn : to which is added an account of the ecclesiastical affairs of the Swedish settlers, and a history of Wilmington, from its first settlement to the present time
• A history of the state of Delaware; from its first settlement until the present time, containing a full account of the first Dutch and Swedish settlements, with a description of its geography and geology
• History of the state of Delaware; from the earliest settlements to the year 1907
• A History, including genealogical notes on families of the Baptist denomination who emigrated from counties Pembroke and Carmarthen to Delaware and Pennsylvania, 1701
• Once upon a time in Delaware
• Proceedings at the unveiling of the Monument at Cooch’s Bridge : Tuesday afternoon, September 3rd, 1901 : erected by the patriotic societies and citizens of Delaware, marking the spot where the stars and stripes were first unfurled in battle, September 3rd, 1777
• The Swedes on the Delaware, 1638-1664
• Historical and biographical papers
• Articles, wills and deeds creating the entail of Pennsylvania and three lower counties upon Delaware in the Penn family
• Records of the assistant commissioner for the District of Columbia, 1865-1869 : NARA, RG105, M1055
• Rodney’s diary and other Delaware records

History – Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

• Address on the history of the boundaries of the state of Delaware
• Annals of Pennsylvania from the discovery of the Delaware, 1609-1682
• Annals of the Swedes on the Delaware : from their first settlement in 1636, to the present time
• The Dutch & Swedes on the Delaware, 1609-64
• Early relations of Delaware and Pennsylvania by Hon. Richard S. Rodney : and Delaware: a grant yet not a grant
• A history of New Sweden : or, The settlements on the river Delaware
• The history of the colony of New Sweden
• Narratives of early Pennsylvania, west New Jersey and Delaware, 1630-1707
• Officers of the colonies on the Delaware, 1614-1681
• Provincial officers of the three lower counties, New Castle, Kent, and Sussex
• The Quaker colonies : a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware
• Some account of William Usselinx and Peter Minuit : two individuals who were instrumental in establishing the first permanent colony in Delaware
• Swedish colonial news
• Swedish landmarks in the Delaware Valley
• The Swedish settlements on the Delaware : their history and relation to the Indians, Dutch and English 1638-1664 with an account of the South, the New Sweden, and the American companies and the efforts of Sweden to regain the colony
• Thomas Spry, lawyer and physician : the first attorney admitted to practise under English law in the Delaware River settlements now included in the state of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware

Government & Politics

• Letters to and from Caesar Rodney : 1756-1784

Libraries, Museums, & Archives

• Delaware archives
• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 02, Federal Courts, no. 08, Delaware
• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 05, Department of Justice, no. 08, Delaware
• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 09, Department of Agriculture, no. 08, Delaware
• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 10, Department of Commerce, no. 08, Delaware
• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 11, Department of Labor, no. 08, Delaware
• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 16, Farm Credit Administration, no. 08, Delaware

Public Records

• United States Public Records, 1970-2009, index
• Governor’s register, state of Delaware : appointments and other transactions by Executives of the State from 1674 to 1851

Slavery & Bondage

• Maryland and Delaware, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office records, 1865-1872
• Records of the assistant commissioner for the District of Columbia, 1865-1869 : NARA, RG105, M1055
• Records of the field offices for the states of Maryland and Delaware, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 : NARA, RG105, M1906

Societies

• History of the Delaware Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
• A history of the Delaware State Society of the Cincinnati from its organization to the present time : to which is appended a brief account of the Delaware regiments in the war of the revolution : also personal memoirs of the officers, rolls of same, oration before the Delaware Cincinnati on the death of Washington, etc

Delaware Military Records

• United States Muster Rolls of the Marine Corps, 1798-1937, index & images
• United States Naval Enlistment Rendezvous, 1855-1891, index & images
• United States Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926, index & images
• United States Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914, index & images
• United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940, index links to images
• United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images
• Delaware, Mexican Expedition card file index, 1916-1917
• Delaware archives

Revolutionary War

• United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872, index & images
• United States Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Applications, 1800-1900, index links to images
• United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783, index & images
• United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783, index & images
• The journal and order book of Captain Robert Kirkwood of the Delaware regiment of the Continental line
• The Revolutionary soldiers of Delaware
• Revolutionary War rolls 1775-1783
• Delaware signers of the oath of allegiance
• Delaware troops in the Revolution
• Proceedings at the unveiling of the Monument at Cooch’s Bridge : Tuesday afternoon, September 3rd, 1901: erected by the patriotic societies and citizens of Delaware, marking the spot where the stars and stripes were first unfurled in battle, September 3rd, 1777
• The revolutionary soldiers of Delaware
• A history of the Delaware State Society of the Cincinnati from its organization to the present time: to which is appended a brief account of the Delaware regiments in the war of the revolution : also personal memoirs of the officers, rolls of same, oration before the Delaware Cincinnati on the death of Washington, etc

Mexican-American War

• United States Mexican War Index and Service Records, 1846-1848, index & images
• United States Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926, index & images

US Civil War

• United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903, index & images
• Delaware Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865, index links to images
• United States Civil War Confederate Papers of Citizens or Businesses, 1861-1865, index links to images
• United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865, index
• United States Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files, 1861-1934, index links to images
• United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917, index links to images
• Delaware Civil War service records of Union soldiers, 1861-1865
• Delaware Volunteer units, regimental books, 1862-1865
• Delaware, military records: compiled service records of Union Soldiers, 1780-1917
• Enrollment lists for Delaware, 1863-1865
• Delaware Civil War service records of Union soldiers, 1861-1865
• Delaware, Civil War card file index, 1861-1865
• Index to compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Delaware
• A brief account of the services rendered by the Second Regiment Delaware Volunteers in the war of the rebellion
• Four years in the war: the history of the First regiment of Delaware veteran volunteers (infantry) containing an account of marches, battles, incidents, promotions
• History of the First Regiment, Delaware Volunteers: from the commencement of the “three months’ service” to the final muster-out at the close of the rebellion

Spanish-American War, 1898

• Delaware, Spanish-American War card file index, 1898-1899

World War I

• United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, index & images
• Delaware, World War I Servicemen Records, 1917-1919, index links to images
• United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 1917-1919, index links to images
• Delaware, World War 1 servicemen records, 1917-1919
• Delaware, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, deaths, 1917-1919
• Delaware, World War I Selective Service System draft registration cards, 1917-1918
• United States (with some from Ontario, Canada) recruits for the Polish Army in France, 1917-1919 : states represented most frequently are New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Connecticut, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Delaware, Nebraska & Kansas (for complete breakdown see film inventory)
• Delaware, World War 1 servicemen records, 1917-1919

World War II

• Delaware, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945, index & images
• United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946, index
• United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, index & images
• Delaware Selective Service System registration cards [World War II] : fourth registration ; NARA, M1936
• Delaware, World War II deceased servicemen index, 1942-1946
• Delaware, World War II draft registration cards
• Delaware, World War II draft registration cards, 1940-1947

Veterans, Enlistments, Pensions

• United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images
• United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images
• United States Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926, index & images

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