> Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 07:45:22 -0000 > From: "Christopher Gray" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [TGF] XC file > To: "'Transitional Genealogists'" > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]@newscope-solutions.co.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi - as someone from over the pond, while very interested in the topic, I > don't understand the acronyms. What is a VA and XC? Chris Chris,Tried to send to your private email and it got bounced back. Below is taken from the NARA (National Archives in America) website. Sincerely,Jewell Lorenz Dunn, MBAOld Plates and Old People "There are actually five separate series of Civil War and later pension files. There are two series of applications that were rejected and never converted to certificates of pension. These series are the soldier’s or survivor’s original (SO) application and the widow’s original (WO). These files tend to be thinner but that is not always the case. Sometimes a soldier or a widow kept reapplying each time the laws became liberalized, and the files are very rich. There are three series of certificate files: soldier’s certificates (SC); widow’s certificates (WC), which include minor child and indigent parents; and certificates (C or XC). In some cases, we know that we don’t have files for a soldier in the index. The files usually have a C or XC pension claim number and were still active files after circa 1928. The C or XC pension file number should appear at the bottom of the index card. There are a lot of C and XC files that we do not have. If there was anyone still alive who had a claim against the pension in roughly 1928, then NARA probably won’t have the file. It was still an active record and therefore is still in the legal custody of what is now the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA)."