Forwarded from another mail list. If you don't have a subscription to Ancestry, you might want to take advantage of this special offer. Ken G. ************************ > Ancestry.com has opened up several of its military databases for no > charge! > In remembrance this Memorial Day, these databases are open (and free) from May 26 until June 10. > > HOWEVER, PLEASE NOTE: > These databases are free only when accessed through the PaCivilWar > site at http://www.pacivilwar.com/freepension.html Although hosted by a PA Civil War site, these databases give free access to the vets from all the states in the database. These aren't Free Trials and no credit card is needed. You may be asked to register with a user name and password to access the databases. > > The databases include: > > **FREE 1890 Census Veterans Schedule > Often used as a head-of-household substitute for the 1890 Federal > Census that was destroyed by fire, the Veterans' Census of Union and some Confederate soldiers is one of the newest census digitized by Ancestry. > > **FREE Civil War Pension Index > Images of 2.5 million Federal pension application cards that includes the veteran's name, state, regiment. It also contains the certificate number that can be used to order a soldiers' service and pension records from NARA. Many times, these pension records are gold mines of genealogy information. > > **FREE Disabled Soldiers Home > Soldiers at various National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in 1895. Information includes name of soldier, company or regiment, rank, length of service, birth, age, where admitted from, occupation, > married or single, and more. > > This invitation is being offered only to PACivilWar visitors. The URL to get your free use of these military databases until June 10 is > > http://www.pacivilwar.com/freepension.html > > ______________________________ ************************************* \\\|/// \\ ~ ~ // ( @ @ ) ----oOOo-(_)-oOOo----McGillekehr ********************************************************************** *****Your Western Ky. KyGenWeb Genealogy homepages are***** CALDWELL http://www.kygenweb.net/caldwell/index.html CRITTENDEN http://www.kygenweb.net/crittenden/index.html LIVINGSTON http://www.kygenweb.net/livingston/index.html LYON http://www.kygenweb.net/lyon/index.html ALL KY COUNTIES http://www.kygenweb.net/index.html Cemeteries--Caldwell, Crittenden, Livingston, Lyon http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~caldwellcemeteries/ **********************************************************************