------------------------------------------------------------------ FORWARDED MESSAGE - Orig: 15-Aug-98 5:27 Subject: veterans records From: LeaAnn Rich INTERNET:leaann1@bellsouth.net ------------------------------------------------------------------ Just a note to all here about veterans records. I obtained a copy of the form you need to get veteran records off of the National Archives Website. You can order them and they will send them snail-mail, also a form to request census records. The form for veterans records states: "Military service records rarely contain family information. Pension application files generally are most useful to those who are doing genealogical research and contain the most complete information regarding a man's military career. We suggest that you first request copies of a mans pension file. You should request copies of a bounty-land warrant file or a military record only when no pension file exsists.( request them all at once, took me 5 months to receive anything back from them.....LeaAnn's note) If the veterans service record waas during the Revolutionary war, bounty-land warrant applications have been consolidated with pension application papers. You can obtain both files by requesting the pension file only." Just thought I'd send that along. -- LeaAnn- Homeschooling mom of Aaron-10, Brandon-6 and Tori-3 Researching, BELLOMY, CARSON, DEWEY, JAYNES, KELLEY, RICH, SHOEMAKER, TIPTON !^NavFont02F04D10007NGHHKD3449F Maggie's World of Courthouse Dust & Genealogy Fever http://www.infinet.com/~dzimmerm/mindex.html *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* God Put Me On Earth to Accomplish a Certain Number of Things. Right Now I am so far behind, I will never die. --- Unknown *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*