Preserve
the Pensions is all about
preserving the War of 1812 pensions. These
are invaluable documents rapidly deteriorating with use.
Did
you know that you benefit and for FREE from this effort? Yes – the digitized
pensions are FREE for you to access as soon as they become available.
Did
you know that Ancestry.com provides dollar for dollar matching? Make a donation and the impact is immediately
doubled!
More support is needed to see the entire collection
digitized (aka preserved)!
We bring this up now as this project has recently
again been in the news due to some recent fundraising efforts which were reported
on at the recent New York Family History
Conference. There was an individual (Mike Hall) fundraising effort with matching contributions (The Legal Genealogist and her readers) as well as real-time
contributions (literally cash on the table) which further supported the effort,
enough that over 70,000 further pages will now be preserved! You can read more about these efforts here, Thank you, New York! (includes a video) and The
last quarter mile (The Legal
Genealogist).
Additionally,
the FamilySearch Blog recently posted You Can Help Save the War of 1812 Pension Records which gives a nice and
quick summary about this effort. Digitization
efforts are now working on the Ms (or so I have heard) and the project is about 65% complete.
Are you or a local society seeking a charitable donation to
make before the end of the year? Is your
society planning a fund-raising activity in support of family history research?
If you answered YES, consider the Preserve the Pensions project. It will keep these invaluable documents
available for future generations (and provide us easy and FREE access right
now!)
Editor’s Note: We’ve
previously posted about this effort which has been occurring for several years!
Editor’s Note: Related
post about the War of 1812 and its records.
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