Online World War I Indexes & Records

A Genealogy Guide

Online World War I Indexes & Records - USA

• World War One Draft Registration Cards Index (with digital images) (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)
  Now available for all states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico - has nearly 24 million records; includes digitized images of the draft cards

• World War I Civilian Draft Registrations Index (free to search, but not complete)
  about 5% of the men who registered are included here -- nearly 1.2 million names of the 24 million total
  • Also see: How to Find World War One Draft Registration Cards

• American Soldiers of World War I - Death Index arranged alphabetically by state (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)
• U.S. Naval Deaths, World War I (at Ancestry - requires registration)

• U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls, 1893-1940 (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription) not specific to World War I, but includes the WWI years

• World War One Alien Registration Records - Indexes of German (and some Austrian) Aliens in the US 1917-1918
  • Arizona World War One Alien Registration Index (partial)
  • Allen County, Indiana: Genealogical Records of German Families Derived from Enemy Alien Registration Files, 1918
  • Kansas World War One Alien Registrations
  • St. Paul, Minnesota Alien Registrations

World War I Records by State

• Alabama World War I Gold Star File of WWI Deaths not yet complete

• Colorado...
  • Colorado Soldiers in WWI, 1917-1918 43,000 listings (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)
  • Colorado Historical Records Index includes...
    • World War I Civilian Service Questionnaires
    • Weld County World War I Veterans
  • Colorado State Archives Veterans Graves Registrations 1862-1949
  • Denver Public Library - Colorado World War I Indexes includes...
    • Fallen Heroes of World War I from Denver, Colorado
    • Colorado World War I Draft Registration Cards Index
    • Colorado World War I Draft Registration Index - Minorities
    • Colorado World War I Casualties Buried in Europe

• Connecticut: World War I Veterans Database

• Florida World War One Service Cards

• Illinois: 1929 Roll of Honor Database contains the burial locations of 72,000 Illinois veterans, some from WWI

• Indiana World War I Deaths

• Kansas Casualties in the First World War 1917-1919

• Louisiana in World War I includes a list of casualties from Louisiana

• Maine Military Men, 1917-1918 36,300 listings (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)

• Maryland Military Men, 1917-1918 67,900 listings (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)

• Michigan...
  • Kent County (Grand Rapids): World War One Veterans Census Index

• Missouri...
  • Missouri: World War I Service Cards Database 1917-1919 (more than 145,000 listings)
  • St. Louis City & County World War One Deaths
    • Also see: St. Louis Genealogy Resources

• Montana in the Military

• New Mexico World War I Deaths - 1918

• North Dakota Military Men, 1917-1918 67,900 listings (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)

• Ohio Military Men 1917-1918 263,000 listings (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)

• Oregon...
  • Oregon: World War I Personal Service Histories
  • Oregon World War One Deaths, Army
  • Oregon World War One Deaths, Navy & Marine Corps
  • Oregon WWI Draft Registration Index

• Pennsylvania...
  • Pennsylvania: Soldiers of the Great War (World War I) Fallen Pennsylvanians of World War I
  • Pennsylvania World War I Service Medal Application Cards Index
  • Chester County World War I Servicemen Index - Chester County War Aid Association

• Tennessee: World War One Veterans Index

• Virginia...
  • Virginia: World War I History Commission Questionnaires over 14,900 records
  • Virginia Military Dead Database ongoing project

• Washington (state)...
  • Soldiers of the Great War (American soldiers who lost their lives in World War I)
  • Washington Military Records Indexes includes...
    • World War I Serviceman Cards (Surnames A-C)
    • Spokane County World War One Soldiers
    • Spokane County WWI Soldiers in the Newspaper

• West Virginia Veterans Memorial Database (for 20th Century Wars)

General Databases with WWI Records - USA

• Veterans Affairs Burial Search for National Cemeteries & Burials with VA Gravemarkers (USA)

• Medals & Awards
  • U.S. Army Medal of Honor Recipients (Civil War to the present)
  • Purple Heart Recipients Database (not complete)

• How to Locate Anyone Who Is or Has Been in the Military - Armed Forces Locator Guide by Richard S. Johnson & Debra Johnson Knox, with a forward by William C. Westmoreland

International Section - WWI Records from Other Countries

• Australia: World War I Service Records

• Canada...
  • Canadian Virtual War Memorial (Veterans Affairs Canada) (116,000 names)
  • Canada: Soldiers of the First World War - Canadian Expeditionary Force (over 600,000 names)

• Finland: War Victims of Finland Database 1914-1922

• Germany: National German Military Grave Registration Service (this site is in German)
  A database of more than 2 million names of missing and dead German soldiers from both World Wars. Notes for searching: Nachname=surname; Vorname=first name; supplying a date of birth or death is optional. Click on "Suche beginnen" to start your search. You then must register with your name and address to continue the search. On the registration form, the following items are required: Vorname (first name), Nachname (last name), Straße / Nr. (Street & Number), Land/Plz/Ort (Country/Postal or Zip Code/City). Then click on "Zur Ergebniseite" to continue. On the next screen click "Suchanfrage ausführen."

• Ireland...
  • North Clare Soldiers in World War I
  • County Kildare - Killed or Injured During WW I

• New Zealand and World War One - Assorted Indexes