Can you get Federal land records for civilians?
Yes, absolutely! If a land transaction can be found in the Bureau of Land Management index, then we can retrieve the associated Land Entry Case File.
Yes, absolutely! If a land transaction can be found in the Bureau of Land Management index, then we can retrieve the associated Land Entry Case File.
Some military service records have a notation of a “Book Mark” at the bottom of the file jacket. That is a reference to another file which is relevant to the soldier. It could be a dozen or even hundreds of pages long but our policy is to include any book mark(s) for free when you
Revolutionary War service and pension records are not available at the National Archives so they are not among the records that we can scan. All of those records have been previously digitized. The indexes to those records are available with a free account to FamilySearch.org. The service record index is HERE and the pension record
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
The bundle includes a Union Civil War soldier`s Service Records, Pension File, and Carded Medical Records (if any) at a price that is somewhat less than ordering the three record types individually. It includes ALL of his service and medical records in cases where he served in more than one regiment. The bundle is not
Confederate service and pension files are not available at the National Archives. Confederate service records have been digitized and are available on Fold3.com. It is a subscription site but there are a variety of legal ways to access it for free as described on our blog HERE. Some of the records are also available for
Our expertise is with 19th-century records. They are preserved at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Washington D.C. 20th-Century records (World War 1 and later) are held at the NARA facilities in College Park, MD or St. Louis, MO and are therefore not available to us. You can find an independent researcher who
A service file typically contains records of the soldier’s military service, including enlistment, promotions, transfers, discharge, and the soldier’s presence or absence on paydays, among other things. Although the contents of a service file is usually military in nature, it may contain some biographical or genealogical information. For more details about the typical contents of a
We can retrieve 19th-century records of various types from the National Archives in Washington D.C. These span the period of the War of 1812, Mexican War, Indian Wars, Civil War (Union), Spanish-American War, and the Philippine Insurrection, as well as for peacetime during that same period. For military personnel, we can copy service files, pension
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