Once a month we randomly select a member* of GopherRecords.com to receive a gift certificate for our most popular product, the “Civil War Soldier’s Bundle”. This bundle includes digital copies of a Union soldier’s service record, pension record, and medical records, if any, from the National Archives. (Retail value=$76.50). (Confederate records of this type are
Compiled Military Service Records (CMSRs) for Confederate soldiers are online, but many of the images are so faint that they are unreadable. In other cases, some pages seem to be missing from those online records. In either case, there is a solution that is not well known. All surviving Confederate CMSRs were digitized by Fold3
Neither Fold3 nor the National Archives site includes Confederate pensions. Those pensions are held by the southern states that issued the pensions as described on our blog HERE. Many of those are Confederate pensions are online as described on our blog HERE. A very small percentage of Union pension records are on Fold3.com. These are
All surviving Confederate service records are on Fold3.com. Many (but not all) of the those records are also on the National Archives web site HERE. Fold3 also includes Union service records for regiments from Massachusetts, Vermont, all of the border states (Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, D.C., Maryland, Delaware), all of the southern states (i.e., Union
A new free web site, BetterSoldiersAndSailors.com, provides a dramatic improvement over the popular “Soldiers and Sailors” site offered by the National Park Service (NPS). The old NPS system has a weak search engine and it fails to address many limitations of the data itself. The resulting failed searches and unorganized search results lead researchers to
The “Better Soldiers and Sailors” web site was created by and is supported by Gopher Records, LLC. The data sources are as follows: Soldiers “Soldiers and Sailors Database“, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Sailors “Soldiers and Sailors Database“, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Prisoners “Soldiers and Sailors Database“, National
Notice: The National Park Service has announced that the older “Soldiers and Sailors” site is no longer maintained and updated.So the problems with the old site that are described here will never be fixed. A new free web site, BetterSoldiersAndSailors.com, provides a dramatic improvement over the popular “Soldiers and Sailors” site offered by the National
The Better Soldiers and Sailors site provides a powerful way to search for your Civil War ancestors. Beginner’s Search Screen This Beginner’s Search screen provides a simple interface. To search for a person, type or paste his full name into this field (e.g., “John A. Smith” or “Smith, John A.”). It will search all of the
A researcher asked, “Why did some soldiers have aliases?” There is a long list of possible answers.
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