Veteran Pensions
Pensions were applied for by veterans and their widows and orphaned children based on their service in a particular war. Qualifications to receive a pension may be different for each war. Copies of these military records are a valuable resource to genealogists because of the wealth of information contained in them. The applications were written at that point in time by family members who usually included specific information and they were attested to by witnesses who knew the applicant for a long time, often other family members.
There are numerous individual pension applications transcribed and on-line. We will not try to point to each individual transcribed application; but instead provide information about pensions and where to find them on the internet. We suggest you use Google™ to locate pension appliations by specific surnames.
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The USGenWeb Archives - Pensions Project Several years ago, RootsWeb took over the popular GenConnect data posting boards which had a separate board for pension transcriptions for each county and surname. They were then much easier to find and link to. Now, all 6 of the GenConnect data boards are stored within one single 'message board' for each county and surname mixed in with queries. GenConnect no longer exists. You can view posts by type [obits, pensions, wills, etc.] once you finally arrive at a county message board. Start your search for our tri-state area at the following link, then choose state, then county or historical county: Geographical by State Message Boards @ rootsweb.com - caution: multiple popups
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Revolutionary War
 110,000 names of Revolutionary War pensioners viewable as either an on-line database of can be purchased as a CD -@ genealog.com
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War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant IndexThis valuable title contains over 90,000 entries for pensioners and their dependents. The microfilm index represented has been faithfully reproduced by HeritageQuest's team of document extraction specialists. 2400 TN Pensioners - Rev. War & War of 1812 - by Zella Armstrong |
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1835 GA Pension Roll - by Bill Navey 1840 GA Pensioners - by Bob Torbert Georgia Revolutionary War Loyalists - by Jerry Braddock |
1835 NC Pension Roll - by Bill Navey NC Rev. War Pensioners - by Lori Price Cobb NC State Pensions to Invalids & Widows - by Guy Potts 1852 NC Rejected or Suspended Pension Applications - by Bill Navey |
1835 TN Pension Roll - by Bill Navey McMinn Co. Pensioners' List - by Ed McQueeen & Bill Bigham |
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Civil War The veteran was eligible to apply for a pension to the State in which he lived, even if he served in a unit from a different State. Generally, an applicant was eligible for a pension only if he was indigent or disabled.
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Georgia Civil War Pension Records Project -
by the UofGA Rabun Co. - Disabled or Invalid Soldiers Roll - by Dawn Cabe Rabun Co. - Pension Roll 1915-1924 - by Dawn Cabe Rabun Co. - Widow's Pensions 1895-1920 [File 1] - by Dawn Cabe Rabun Co. - Widow's Pensions 1895-1920 [File 2] - by Dawn Cabe Rabun Co. - 1906 Pension List - by Elaine Randall English
Index to
Georgia's Confederate Pension Supplements
- compiled by Ted O. Brook and Linda
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1890 Cherokee Co. Special Veterans Schedule - by Diane Ramsey Miller |
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Confederate Pension List - @
TSLA Tennessee Confederate Soldiers' Home Applications @ TSLA Tennessee, Civil War Confederate Pension Applications Index @ ancestry.com TN Colored Pensions Applications for CSA Service - by Willie L. Robinson TN Civil War Veterans' Questionnaires - @ TLSA East TN Pensions & Claims from the Blackman Papers - by Janelle Swearingen
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To find transcribed records of
individual pension records, we suggest you use this search engine.
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