Get the file · Revolutionary War

How to find a Revolutionary War pension file

This is the easiest file in American genealogy to get: all eighty thousand are microfilmed (NARA M804), digitized, and searchable by name. Most families can be reading their ancestor's file tonight.

Step by step

Three ways in, all of them fast

When it arrives

Then the reading starts

Files run from a few pages to over a hundred; the 1832-act files carry the veteran's own narrative of his service. Here is what our report does with this record, and the waitlist below holds today's price for you.

Plan the whole journey

What the trip costs, start to finish

Good news first: for this war, the file itself usually costs nothing. The pension files are already scanned and free to view online, so the whole journey is often just the report: $99 for the pension or bounty-land file, $149 with a service record read alongside it, delivered in days once you've downloaded the pages. The only real cost is the hour it takes to find your soldier in the index, and the guide above spends it for you.

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We'll email you when your record type opens, and nothing else. Please don't send documents yet. We're not set up to receive them, and we'd rather not hold your files before we can do anything with them.

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