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    1. Re: Pension Papers
    2. Carol Swinehart
    3. The Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, OH has the Rev War Pension Paper info on microfilm. THere must be other libraries and perhaps the LDS that has the same?? At 03:14 PM 01/31/98 -0600, gayle wrote: >If one requests just pension papers, the bill seems to still be $10.00. >However if you request ALL of the file (or both selected and non-selected >records) the bill may be higher. You can write on your form, "please send >the selected and advise me the cost of the non-selected records" and they >will send you a note telling you what it will cost for the rest of the >records. >The non-selected may or may not be of genealogical interest. However, in >the ones I sent for I received some very enlightening medical information, >as well as information on other family members. >If this does not seem clear to you, it is like the Revolutionary War >Pension records that you can borrow on interlibrary loan that show selected >and non-selected. If you send to the National Archives for those records >you receive the selected only. AGLL loans the Revolutionary War Pension >records, so there is no need to bother the National Archives to get those, >you can look at them yourself and also everyone else by that surname that >is on the reel of microfilm...thus perhaps finding a sibling or cousins >information. And save a "bunch of money." >gayle1@kansas.net > > > Carol Swinehart cshart@greenapple.com <smaller>List Adminstrator of Fairfield County, Ohio Mailing List</smaller>: OHFAIRFI-L@rootsweb.com <smaller>Stop by the Fairfield County,Ohio Webpage</smaller>: http://www.fairfieldgenealogy.org <smaller>or Fairfield County, Ohio GenWeb page: </smaller>http://www.greenapple.com/~ksmith/que.html My FCO Fam: Swinehart, Homrighouser, Betz, Foltz, Quickel, Anspach, Spohn <smaller>Library & Church Archive links</smaller>: http://www.greenapple.com/~cshart/liblinks

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