The only thing I thought I'd add to this discussion is that affidavits of the sort described by Cheryl are not unique to XC files. You can find them in just about any CW pension file that had any questionable aspects -- and a lot of them did. Maybe no one was confused by that, but the initial discussion made it sound that way to me. (And Cheryl probably wasn't trying to say that what she was seeing was because of it being an XC file.) Patti On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Angela McGhie via < [email protected]> wrote: > From: "Christopher Gray" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [TGF] XC file > > 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, > > The VA is the U.S. Veterans Administration. The XC number on a pension file > indicates that it was still active with someone receiving benefits around > 1928 and was probably not transferred to the National Archives with the > other pension files. It would still be at the Veterans Administration. See > this article on the blog of the National Archives for details: > http://blogs.archives.gov/online-public-access/?p=1702 > > > Angela McGhie > The Transitional Genealogists List was created to provide a supportive > environment for genealogists to learn best practices as they transition to > professional level work. Please respect the kind intentions of this list. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >