From the December 17, 2012, Joplin (Missouri) Globe by Frankie Meyer.
You can now find War of 1812 pension records online at no cost. With the old pension files in such a fragile condition and a great demand stemming from the war's bicentennial, the National Archives and Records Administration has formed a partnership with the Federation of Geneaology Societies and Ancestry.com. This is a similar partnership that worked last year to digitalize the 1940 census.
There are some 7.2 million pages of pension records and so far 414,000 have been digitalized.
You can find more information at preservethe pensions.org.
Digging Deeper Into History. --Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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