A certified document is a paper document which NARA attests to be a true copy of an original that is in their collection. It is accompanied by NARA’s seal of authenticity and bound with a red ribbon. Certified documents are sometimes required in court cases or for other legal purposes. They are NOT appropriate for
Yes, we can provide certified documents under certain conditions as described on this page. Note that certified documents are sometimes required in court cases or for other legal purposes. They are NOT appropriate for most genealogy researchers. We do NOT offer apostile services.
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
The terms and conditions on the order form say, “The quoted prices are for records that are housed at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Washington D.C. In rare cases, your records may be stored somewhere else (e.g., the NARA facility in St. Louis, MO). In that case, we may still be able
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
Yes. While gift certificates can be purchased only by members, but they can be redeemed by anyone. To order a gift certificate, simply loginto your member account and then click on the Order a Gift Certificates button.
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