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by Brian Rhinehart
One of the most common questions I encounter at Civil War Records pertains to whether pension files yield direct evidence of an ancestor's parentag...
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by Brian Rhinehart
The Homestead Acts were a series of laws passed by the United States government between 1862 and 1916 that granted free land to settlers. These law...
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by Brian Rhinehart
I love when records show up in places you wouldn’t necessarily expect. This 1870 naturalization record was found in the homestead packet for Thoma...
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by Brian Rhinehart
Another interesting find in a Civil War pension file at the National Archives! This pension had one of the rarest of finds, an actual photo of the ...
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by Brian Rhinehart
Did you know there are two versions of the pension index cards online? Ancestry has one version and Fold3 has another. Between the two, there may b...
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by Brian Rhinehart
Union soldiers who were captured during battle were sent to various prison camps across the Confederate states. One of these prison camps, Belle Is...
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by Brian Rhinehart
Yet another interesting find at the National Archives! Allan Dougall was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery at the Battle of Bentonville i...
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by Brian Rhinehart
Another exciting find at the National Archives! I rarely have time to look at my own family’s records there, but I slipped in a couple of requests ...
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by Brian Rhinehart
He got bounty land WHERE??One thing that throws a lot of people off is when they see their War of 1812 ancestor getting bounty land in a part of th...
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by Brian Rhinehart
Sometimes the denied pensions contain the best information
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by Brian Rhinehart
Did you know that almost every state in the south had organized regiments in the Union Army in the Civil War?
While many southern residents fa...
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by Brian Rhinehart
Genealogical research into the lives of African Americans before the Civil War can present a unique set of challenges. Many of those who were held...
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