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From: "Sharon" <>
Subject: [DRIVER-L] CIVIL WAR PENSION INDEX (IMAGES ONLINE)
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:29:23 -0400


Hi List Mates,
Just in case you did not receive this information yet, here is a new
database from Ancestry. I got 118 hits on DRIVER.
Sharon
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CIVIL WAR PENSION INDEX (IMAGES ONLINE)

More than 2.5 million original American Civil War pension index cards are
the first available images in Ancestry.com's new Images Online project. (For
more information on the Images Online Project see,
http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/news/articles/1931.asp.)

Each Civil War pension card--a record of a veteran's application for federal
support--records the veteran's name and the state in which the application
was received. (Because these pension files were for federal benefits, this
collection only contains the names of Union veterans.) If a widow or a child
filed the application, his or her name and relevant information is included.
Until now, the pension cards were only available through microfilm copies
contained at the National Archives and limited repositories.

Ancestry's existing Civil War Pension Index contains a link to a digitized
image of the index card itself. This image will contain additional
information on the individual, such as unit of service, date of filing and
application, and certificate numbers for the pension case file (which often
contains additional pages of individual information) housed at the National
Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C. Going beyond the
detail of indexes and information summaries, the online images are an added
source for information on
Civil War ancestors.

Source Information: National Archives and Records Administration. "Civil War
Pension Index." [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Data
indexed and imaged from: National Archives and Records Administration.
"General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934." T288, 544 rolls. Washington,
D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.

Search the Civil War Pension Index and/or read the extended description at:
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4654.htm

An Advanced Search form is available at:
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/military/cwpi/main.htm






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