1. Mine existing genealogies:
Descendants of those serving in the Revolutionary War have often done a great job of telling the stories through primary research. Check these resources:
- Familysearch.org (free, but you must create an account; contains many of the resources in Ancestry.com)
- Ancestry.com (fee based, or your public library may have an in-house only account).
- Published genealogies (in the digital book collections)
- Search engines (search string: First name Last Name" genealogy "family history")
- Remember to extract all the family data from their military service records, wills, etc.
- Digitized newspapers