Free Access to Military Records on Ancestry.com

In honor of Veteran's Day, Ancestry.com is offering free access to their military records between 11-14 November.  Normally, Ancestry.com requires you to have a paid subscription to their site to access these records.  So if you have any veterans in your family, this is a great opportunity to obtain these records for FREE!

Ancestry.com has a good selection of military records including:  Civil War Records, World War I Records, World War II Records and more. 

These records can reveal loads of information including, which regiment your family member served in during a war and what their job title was.  You can find pension records, and awards and honors received too. 

Draft registrations can tell you where somebody was living when they were drafted as well as where they worked.  These records even offer physical characteristics of a person (hair color, eye color, height, etc.).  If a person had a physical handicap that prevented them from being enlisted, this will be revealed too!

I've even found regimental diaries on Ancestry.com!  If you like stories (and lets face it, genealogy buffs do), you'll enjoy these as much as I do.  These diaries offer a glimpse in what life was like during deployment for your loved one.

Military records are some of my favorite records available and this is a great opportunity to get a free look at them!  To Search for Military Records, click here!