by Katie Rebecca Garner | Jul 17, 2026
Previously in part 1 of this series, we learned about War of 1812 pensions and what it took for our ancestors who were eligible to obtain one. We will continue this series by learning about what you can find in a War of 1812 pension record. Because the soldier had to...
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Jul 10, 2026
The U.S. declared war against Britain on 18 June 1812, lasting until 1815. The tensions that led to the war were related to Britain not recognizing the U.S. as an independent country, refusing to respect U.S. neutrality or maritime rights. Men were injured and killed...
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Jul 3, 2026
Previously in this series, we learned about the history of Revolutionary War pensions and what we can find in them (see links at the end of this article). We will conclude this series by learning where to research pensions, and exploring additional records of our case...
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Jun 26, 2026
In my last article, we learned about Revolutionary War pension acts and what our ancestors had to do to get a pension. See: Genealogy Tip: Your Ancestor’s Revolutionary War Pension (part 1). In part 2, we will continue by looking at what we can find in our ancestors’...
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Jun 19, 2026
In this three-part series, I’m going to discuss a valuable resource for learning about the life of your Revolutionary War-era ancestor: pension records. In this first part, we’ll look at the history and processes of Revolutionary War pensions. American colonists were...
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Jun 12, 2026
Typically, a census study of a family in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries means skipping the 1890 census, going straight from 1880 to 1900. A lot more can happen in twenty years than in ten years, so this large gap can be the bane of a genealogist’s...
