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Start your research engines!
Ancestry.com has opened up several of its military databases for no charge! In remembrance this Memorial Day, these databases are open (and free) from May 26 until June 10.
HOWEVER, PLEASE NOTE:
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. These aren't Free Trials and no credit card
is needed. You may be asked to register with a user name and password
to access the databases.
The databases include:
**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 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 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. The URL to
get your free use of these military databases until June 10 is
http://www.pacivilwar.com/freepension.html
Have fun and happy hunting!
Juli Morgan
CLARIDAY Mailing List Administrator
CLARIDAY-admin(a)rootsweb.com
Is there any interest in a CLARDY DNA research project? I would be
interested in having my 82 year old father tested, but there is little use for his
results if no one else participates. We are a line that has a spelling change,
but I can find records with the Clardy spelling for his ancestors in the 18th
& 19th centuries. Please email me with thoughts or questions.
Joanne Clarida Shrout
Independence, MO
_joclarida(a)aol.com_ (mailto:joclarida@aol.com)