Including the Civil War Pension records, the National Archives has digitized select records for on-line use. There is a fee, and I couldn't find Ohio on the list for searching Civil War pensions. _http://www.footnote.com/nara.php_ (http://www.footnote.com/nara.php) Nancy Sween ============ NATIONAL ARCHIVES ANNOUNCES DEAL WITH FOOTNOTE.COM TO PROVIDE ON-LINE ACCESS TO DIGITIZED RECORDS On January 10, Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein and Footnote, Inc. CEO Russell Wilding announced an agreement to digitize selected records from the holdings of the National Archives. The 4.5 million pages that have been digitized so far are now available at _http://www.footnote.com/nara.php_ (http://www.footnote.com/nara.php) This non-exclusive agreement, beginning with the sizeable collection of materials currently on microfilm, will enable researchers and the general public to access millions of newly-digitized images of the National Archives historic records on a subscription basis from the Footnote web site. Footnote can charge users on a per-page or on a monthly or annual fee basis. By February 6, the digitized materials will also be available at no charge in National Archives research rooms in Washington, D.C. and regional facilities across the country. After an interval of five years, all images digitized through this agreement will be available at no charge through the National Archives web site. The first set of collections available are the Papers of the Continental Congress (1774-89); the Matthew B. Brady Collection of Civil War Photographs; the files of the post-Civil War Southern Claims Commission; a Name Index to Civil War and Later Pension Files, and Investigative Case Files of the Bureau of Investigation from 1908-22. SOURCE: NCH WASHINGTON UPDATE (Vol. 13, #2; January 18, 2007) ____________________________________