---------------------- Forwarded Message: --------------------- From: "Montford Reed" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [KYMONTGO-L] Revolutionary Pension records Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:21:47 -0400 Hi, I'm kin to Garrett's in Powell and Harlan Counties. What archives did your friend check? DAR? NARA? The National Archives would most likely have the record. You will have to submit a completed NATF Form 85. After about 3 months you will receive photocopies of the entire pension file. I did this process on my Steele ancestors and was amazed at what I received: signed applications, legal docs of all sorts, depositions, etc., over 30 sheets in all. The signatures are priceless. To receive copies of military records, submit NATF Form 86. These often are only pay records and contain little or no useful information. You can order a complete file search and copy from DAR at a cost of $40 (check their web site). Seems they catalog different types of documents at different places, so there are usually several files on a person, not just one big file. I suspect the DAR does, in fact, have a copy of the documents, SOMEWHERE. You can order the NARA forms on the Internet and get them in less than a week at www.nara.gov . Hope this helps. Monty (Montford) Reed ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 10:30 AM Subject: [KYMONTGO-L] Revolutionary Pension records > I have an ancestor, Robert Garrett, that is on 1840 Montgomery Co., Ky. > census, I have a copy of a DAR application on him and it states his pension > is S31054 {D.A.R. pension 61}. Someone looked for me at the Washington > Archives and said it wasn't there. Anybody have suggestions? > > Janeen Davis Proctor > <A HREF="http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=janeen"> RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Proctor- Davis Ancestors</A> > <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/janpro77/index.html">Welcome To Our Place</A> > > > ==== KYMONTGO Mailing List ==== > shh, be verrrry quiet.......I am hunting forebears. > ==== KYMONTGO Mailing List ==== To UNSUBSCRIBE send a new e-mail to [email protected] or [email protected] with nothing in the body of the e-mail except the word unsubscribe.