WWII internment of Japanese immigrant “enemy aliens” in the San Francisco Bay

Learn the particulars of the Civil War pension approval process and what a pension application file for your Union Army veteran may contain. This lecture will review the history and background of military pensions in the United States. It will also cover specific details about the Civil War pension approval process for Union soldiers and their widows. A case study will illustrate the contents of the Civil War Union pension application file for George W. Tillman and his widow, Corabelle.

So many statutes required notice that someone wanted something done, and the legal notices in newspapers can be priceless sources of genealogical clues.

Military maps are an invaluable source of information for determining where our ancestors may have served in a specific conflict. Knowing your ancestor’s military unit or organization can help place his regiment, battalion, brigade, or division on the field to determine the precise footsteps you family trod during a specific engagement. This lecture focuses on those maps that contain valuable military information from the colonial period through the Vietnam War of the mid twentieth century.