Geneanet now has the NARA's pension index for the War of 1812. It includes information on almost 90,000 individuals.
Read the background information here; the link to the collection is here.
Source: ResearchBuzz
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Monday, May 23, 2022
USCIS
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service offers genealogy assistance at its website:
https://www.uscis.gov/records/genealogy. This is a fee-for-service program.
Monday, May 9, 2022
Ellis Island Research
The Statue of Liberty- Ellis Island Foundation is a good place to start your immigration research.
The link is here .
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