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Preserve the Pensions
The Federation of Genealogical Societies, the National Archives, and the
genealogical community have started a project to digitize the War of 1812 pension files—a fitting
beginning to the bicentennial commemoration of this important war.
These images will be available for free.
Contributions to this project have already made these files available.
This initiative seeks to raise $3.7 million. Preserve the Pensions! seeks to raise the bulk of the funds before
the bicentennial of the start of the war and finish digitization before the bicentennial of the war's end in 2015. With 7.2 million images in
180,000 files, there is much digitization to do.
A $25 donation will digitize 50 images -- a $500 donation will digitize 1,000 images!
 
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