I like the fact that the Draft ledgers listed men from the same areas, especially when you are doing an area heavily populated with Dutch names, such as Mercer County Kentucky. They also listed their age, occupation, living or dead. You are looking at what appears to be a hand written ledger list, which is easy to read. Although it takes time, you can do the entire county for other family members with different surnames. Judy Apr 9, 2011 11:04:11 AM, [email protected] wrote: =========================================== OK, I think the Pension Applications are the index cards to the applications. The actual applications and accompanying paperwork can be just a few letters back and forth or up to hundreds of pages of material, including Bible records as proof, affidavits from many people, discharge papers, etc. I went through the folders for my two Civil War soldiers and a few kin about 20 years ago, and was hoping they'd put them online eventually as they did with the Revolutionary Pension folders. But the volume for the Civil War ones will be much higher, of course. I found one of my soldiers in the draft registration records, that was cool. It didn't add any new data in that one case, but it also listed the men generally by area and so it could be used as another way to see who was in a township or town and not yet in the services, maybe. Or it could contain something new you've never seen, but the info is limited: location, name, age on a certain date in 1863, occupation, race, and maybe a couple other fields. New stuff - always great! Thanks / Tom -------------------------------------------------- From: Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 10:55 AM To: Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] civil War Ancestors > I received an email from Ancestry. com this am. and on it were several > links to various sites. The Pension Applications are the original cards > and the Draft Records, are actually note books or ledgers kept by whom > ever was recording the information for that particular county, so you are > looking at the original documents. The title is: > > US Civil War Draft Registration Records, 1863-1865 - Ancestry.com > > > > > > .Apr 9, 2011 10:45:52 AM, [email protected] > wrote:===========================================Can you clarify what this > collection contains, please? The Pension Index cards I've seen, but I'm > not getting any hits on my Civil War soldiers in the collection you > mention. Do they have the actual images from the full pension folder for > each soldier?Thanks / > Tom--------------------------------------------------From: Sent: Saturday, > April 09, 2011 10:39 AMTo: Subject: [DUTCH-COLONIES] civil War Ancestors> > Ancestry.com has just posted the Civil War Pension Applications as well as > > theConsolidated List of Civil War Draft Records. These seem to be Union > > Soldiers only but do include Kentucky and Missouri and there are many > > descendants of our Dutch ancestors listed.>> > Judy>> -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, > please send an email to > [email protected] with the > word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the bo! > dy of the message> -------------------------------To unsubscribe from the > list, please send an email to [email protected] with the > word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message