I don't know how many of you are familiar with the Census images that are available free on many USGenWeb pages. One of the companies that scans microfilm of Census returns is now offering copies of Rev War Pensions. I inquired if it would be possible to scan all of the Beatty/ Beaty Rev War Pension applications and prepare them in a similar fashion as the Census so that they could be available on our BP2000. I was told that they could do this for 50 cents per page (I think there are around 40 applications and if we estimate 30 pages per application this turns out to be $600, a very rough estimate on my part). If there is anyone else interested in having these applications available on the page for easy access let me know--if we had 20 people contribute it would be $30 each. We also then would be given a CD with all of the applications to use on our own computer. So many of the applications are very difficult to read and expensive to copy that this seems like a worthwhile project to me. The link to the company offering the service is: http://www.SKcensus.com/revwarpensions.html If you send away to the National Archives for a copy of a pension I think it costs almost $30 and you are only given the "Selected Records" section of the microfilm. I have found the non selected records to be very informative. If you copy a Pension file at the Archives yourself it is 30 cents per page and an extremely frustrating experience on a crowded day since there are only 3 printers that copy on ledger size paper and you are limited to 3 copies when others are waiting which means it can take several hours to copy a single file. Laurel Baty, L252