Public Index of 1.5 Million National Railroad Pension Records Now Available
Thursday, October 29, 2015--A free index to over 1.5 million pension records from the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board can now be located online for the first time ever through the Genealogy Quick Look from the Midwest Genealogy Center in Independence , Missouri
“We are very excited to offer this free service for genealogy researchers throughout the United States in association with the National Archives and Records Administration,” said Cheryl Lang, manager of the Midwest Genealogy Center
Everyone can access the Genealogy Quick Look by visiting the MGC website at midwestgenealogycenter.org and clicking on the “Genealogy Quick Look” link.
The Genealogy Quick Look is a new online service from MGC that allows users to search the indexes of various genealogical resources. These indexes include the large volume of pension records which are housed at NARA ’s Atlanta
While it does not provide direct access to the pension records, Genealogy Quick Look can provide researchers with important information to locate a pension record held by NARA , and then it directs users to the NARA
“Providing this public index of national railroad pension records has been a project in the making for more than three years,” Lang said. “This is a collaboration with NARA
In addition to the national railroad pension records which span the United States and range from 1936 through the early 2000s, Genealogy Quick Look provides an online name index to obituary, birth and marriage records from the Independence Examiner newspaper 1900 through 1959; obituaries and memorials from the Kansas City Call newspaper from 1995 to 2001; obituaries from the Kansas City Star in the 1970s; and a number of books. Outside of the railroad pension records, all of these materials are available in print, microfilm, or microfiche at MGC. Staff can provide digital copies of articles free of charge.
The materials indexed on Genealogy Quick Look represent a small portion of MGC’s almost three quarter of a million genealogy-related holdings. For example, the Kansas City Midwest Genealogy Center
Editor’s Note: The Genealogy Quick Look link is in the right side navigation panel.
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