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From: faye parker <>
Subject: RE: [GenTips] Ancestry Civil War databases FREE!
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 12:02:44 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <000701c56554$3efe2b30$6402a8c0@Moms17>


I am interested in TN history and genealogy also.

Teresa Elliott <> wrote:Thanks Kathi. I have several pension files on my mom's family, but this was
the first time I had seen the index. You are right, they are very rich
in information and I can't wait to get a copy of this man's since he and his
wife were granted a pension, and of the three of us researching his line, we
didn't know about this wife. Sounds like I better get this one on order.

Teresa Ghee Elliott All links start with
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery and then add

Rutherford Co., TN cemeteries: see above

TMG sentence structures: /TMG.html

Descendants of James Edde of Bedford County, TN /EDDE/index.htm


-----Original Message-----
From: Kathi [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 3:11 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [GenTips] Ancestry Civil War databases FREE!

a soldier applied for a pension based on wounds or illness suffered
while in the service. To receive a pension, the soldier must have
suffered "a permanent physical disability not due to vicious habits".

One of the soldier's whose pension file I sent for made his claim for a
pension based on "frozen ears" from sentry duty. And he was successful!

If the pension has an application number but no certificate number, that
means that a pension was applied for but was rejected. These pension
application files are especially rich because many times a pension was
applied for a number of times and each time contributes to the info in
the file.


Kathi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Teresa Elliott [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 3:44 PM
> To:
> Subject: RE: [GenTips] Ancestry Civil War databases FREE!
>
> On the pension applications, it lists type of pension, such as
Invalid,
> Widow, Misc. Does that Invalid, mean the pension was no good, or does
it
> mean the person was an invalid?
> Thanks for the link Kathi, it's too cold to swim so I have free time
> today.
>
> Teresa Ghee Elliott All links start with
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery and then
add
>
> Rutherford Co., TN cemeteries: see above
>
> TMG sentence structures: /TMG.html
>
> Descendants of James Edde of Bedford County, TN /EDDE/index.htm
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kathi [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 8:04 AM
> To:
> Subject: [GenTips] Ancestry Civil War databases FREE!
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Ancestry.com has opened up several of its Civil War databases for no
> charge in remembrance this Memorial Day. These databases are open (and
> free) starting today until June 10.
>
> These databases are free only when accessed through the PaCivilWar
site
> at http://www.pacivilwar.com/freepension.html . Although hosted by a
PA
> Civil War site, these databases give free access to the vets from all
> the states in the database.
>
>
> **FREE Civil War Pension Index
> Images of 2.5 million Federal pension application cards that includes
> the veteran's name, state, regiment. It also contains the certificate
> number that can be used to order a soldiers' service and pension
records
> from NARA. Many times, these pension records are gold mines of
> genealogy information.
>
> **FREE 1890 Census Veterans Schedule
> Often used as a head-of-household substitute for the 1890 Federal
Census
> that was destroyed by fire, the Veterans' Census of Union and some
> Confederate soldiers is one of the newest census digitized by
Ancestry.
>
> **FREE Disabled Soldiers Home
> Soldiers at various National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in
> 1895. Information includes name of soldier, company or regiment, rank,
> length of service, birth, age, where admitted from, occupation,
married
> or single, and more.
>
> This invitation is being offered only to PACivilWar visitors at
>
> http://www.pacivilwar.com/freepension.html
>
> Follow the instructions on the page to register at Ancestry.com as
> PACivilWar's guest, and have fun! The registration to receive a user
> name and password to access the databases is free.
>
> If you want to share this invitation with friends, just forward this
> email to them, so they can take advantage of this limited time free
> access.
>
> If you think another mailing list or message board might want to know,
> please invite them, but be sure this message is on topic for the list
> before you forward it.
>
> Enjoy,
> Kathi
>
>
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