Researchers have a new excuse to visit their local Family History Center. Footnote.com has partnered with the Family History Library's FamilySearch to make a vast historical collection accessible online at Family History Centers. The first set of documents to be digitized and made available will be three million US Revolutionary War records. This collection features original documents that include pension applications, muster rolls, payrolls, strength returns and other miscellaneous personnel pay and supply records of American army units from 1775 to 1783. Revolutionary War pension applications are an outstanding source for genealogists and historians, including descriptions of military units, troop movements, affidavits of witnesses, pay receipts, warrants, and discharges. Russ Wilding, CEO of Footnote.com, tells GenealogyMagazine.com that that an index, while available on an individual file level, will also capture every name found in the files. As a part of this ambitious project, Footnote.com will be accessible for free in all FamilySearch operated centers worldwide. FamilySearch has more than 4,500 Family History Centers in seventy countries. Footnote.com is a unique source for historians and genealogists. Its ambitious digitizing projects encompass other collections — George Washington’s correspondence, the Lincoln Assassination papers, Brady Civil War photographs, and the Southern Claims Commission. Still other significant sources cover city directories, naturalizations, and an index to Civil War pensions. By an arrangement with the National Archives made in January, Footnote.com has digitized more than nine million historical records. The company estimates that two million documents are digitized and added to its site monthly. By the end of the year, Footnote.com expects to have more than 35 million images of historical documents accessible online. Posted 22 May 2007; Revised 25 May 2007 |
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