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Muster rolls can form a kind of early census for your male relations

Our ‘Best Websites’ article ( page 47) is on militia records and muster rolls, but these records are not just about finding fighting forebears. As Anthony

Adolph says, all men of fighting age were recorded during the Napoleonic Wars – so your chances of finding someone on the muster rolls is fairly high and many, including later volunteer records, are now online!