View single post by Albert Sailhorst
 Posted: Sun Sep 18th, 2011 05:36 pm
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Albert Sailhorst
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Use ancestry.com, but register as a "guest"....Sometimes, they'll give you a free trial (as yet, I won't pay for the service, because I've already done the geneology work on my family)....Every once in a while, they'll also give free access to Civil War records. There's another website similar to Ancestry that gave free access for a week to Civil War records (which I found to be helpful), but I can't remember which website it was.

Whatever you do, which ever websites or resources you use, in my opinion one of the best ideas is to get a copy of their service record (which, if you can wait, the website that I forgot the name of MAY, in the future, offer that for free).

Good luck!!