Index to Military Records of Kent County

Revolutionary War  **  Civil War  **  Mexican War
Spanish-American War  **  WWI  **  WWII 
Korean War  **  Vietnam War  **  Michigan Veterans Facility  
Organizations ** Miscellaneous

Revolutionary War

• Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants
  http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/mil/bountyabout.htm 
• Revolutionary War Rejected Claims
  http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/mil/rejectedabout.htm 
• Dunmore’s War (1774)
  http://ajax.lva.lib.va.us/F/?func=flie&file_name=find-b-clas36&local_base=CLAS36 

Civil War

Mexican War

• Information and resources on Mexican War soldiers - http://www.dmwv.org/
  

Spanish-American War

• Michigan Graves of Spanish American War Veterans - this project is just beginning.  If you have a veteran, please add to this website.
  http://www.spanamwar.com/michigangraves.htm
• A List of Spanish American War Veterans from the Grand Rapids area.
  http://www.spanamwar.com/GrandRapidsvets.htm

WWI

WWI Parade on Fulton Street

WWII

Korean War

• Resource for Korean War - www.koreanwar.org

Vietnam War

• Vietnam
   

Organizations

• Custer Post, Grand Rapids
• Watson Post, Grand Rapids
• Furniture City, Post #258, Grand Rapids

Michigan Veterans Facility (formerly known as the Michigan Soldiers Home, Grand Rapids, MI)

• Michigan Soldiers Home records See http://kent.migenweb.net/veterans/index.html
• Website for information on the Michigan Soldiers Home (a.k.a.) Michigan Veterans Facility      http://www.michigan.gov/dmva
• Photos and addition information of the Michigan Soldiers Home
• Michigan Veterans of the Civil War Buried at the Soldiers' Home, Grand Rapids, MI 

Miscellaneous

• Department of Veterans Affairs - 3.2 million records of burials in national cemeteries
  http://www.cem.va.gov/
• Veterans Registry, a place to submit information to: www.migrations.org/vetreg/submit.php3
• Index to Obituaries for Servicemen from Several Wars
• Inservice
• Database is a catalog of American Civil War photographs from the Special Collections Branch of USAMHI.  Eventually, this database will include photos, articles worn or used by soldiers from the Mexican War in the 1840's to recent operations.
   http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usamhi/PhotoDB.html
• Military and Pension Records, National Archives - Eugene Buck is willing to make copies of records for the cost of his time and the cost of the copies.  You may contact him at:
  Ebuck43@aol.com

Created: 8 February 2005
URL: http://kent.migenweb.net/military/index.html

Contact County Coordinator:  evlynsaw@comcast.net