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Users without memberships at Fold3.com can browse the “unit index” to Union Civil War pensions enough to see if their person of interest received a pension. To see the actual card, fee-based access is needed. But the index will tell you if there is a pension for a specific person within a specific unit.

The actual pension, which is what most researchers probably want, are at the National Archives.

The screen shots show the procedure. 

FamilySearch is indicating the following database is new or updated since our last posting:

United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942–commonly called the “Old Men’s Draft.” I think this has been updated, but not certain what was on there the last time I looked.

FamilySearch is indicating the following database is new or updated since our last posting:

Maine & Massachusetts, Case Files of Deceased and Deserted Seamen, 1837-1965