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Researching Your Mexican War Ancestor

Craig R. Scott, MA, CG, FUGA
Jun 22, 2018
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Introduction
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Mexican War Sources
8m 57s
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The War 1846 - 1848
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Travel to Mexico
8m 58s
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Fold3
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Compiled Military Records
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Pensions
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Muster Rolls
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Bounty Land
4m 15s

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The Mexican War was of short duration. Yet records like muster rolls, payrolls, enlistment records, medical records, and history were created during the war. More records were created after the war in pension and bounty land records. Each record leads to another as the story of your ancestor is unraveled in these military records.

 

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Craig R. Scott, MA, CG, FUGA
Craig Roberts Scott, MA, CG, FUGA is the author of The ‘Lost Pensions’: Settled Accounts of the Act of 6 April 1838 (Revised) and Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the Treasury, Inventory 14 (Revised). His m
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