The War of 1812 U.S. pension records have been on subscription site Fold3.com for many years. It’s an ongoing project that began under the auspices of the former Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) and the U.S. National Archives. FGS embarked on a fund-raising project to ensure these were digitized and then remain FREE for researchers. We owe a big thanks to Fold 3 and its parent company, Ancestry.com for hosting these records on Fold3. My email today contained the following notice. These can be found at US, War of 1812 Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, 1812-1815 (https://www.fold3.com/publication/761/us-war-of-1812-pension-files-1812-1815. The “Read on” refers to https://blog.fold3.com/update-on-the-war-of-1812-pension-files.
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Paula,
Thank you so much for all the information you provide us! You are awesome! Have a great day!
Jacqueline Threet Henderson
Thank you for this exciting and long-awaited update. I just cannot wait until they get to the letter “Y”! I went all the way to Washington, DC in 2023 just to view them (having been told that they would be available), only to learn that the files at the end of the alphabet are all off-site until digitization is complete. I’m very thankful they’ve come as far as they have.