We're pre-launch: the waitlist below is the front door, and today's prices are locked in for everyone on it. Here is exactly what ordering will look like when your record type opens.
One section of every pension report names the law. A pension file is a stack of forms answering statutes the family never sees, so the report sets them out: the acts each claim was filed and decided under, a plain sentence on what each one required, and the document in the file that turns on it. When a rate jumps or a claim is refused, you can see whether it was the man or the statute.
That section is not written from memory or from a summary. It rests on the pension laws themselves, read in full from the original session laws: the federal acts of six wars, from the Revolution to the War with Spain, and the Confederate pension systems of all fourteen states that built one. Where a governing act cannot be confirmed for a given file, the report says the basis is unverified rather than naming one it can't stand behind. More about the statutory backing.
Every report at today's prices is a finished automated report. We read it through once before it goes out to catch obvious errors, but we don't check each reading against the original documents, and the report tells you so, every time. A Reviewed edition, a person re-reading every flagged entry against the original scans, opens later at a higher price.
Two more plain answers: court-martial orders are the one product where we find the record. Bring us a name, a service, and roughly when. And if a file turns out to be something other than what it was ordered as (a pension file that's actually a service record, say), we'll tell you and charge the right price, not the wrong one.
We're opening in stages, by record type. The more you tell us, the sooner we get to yours.
We'll be in touch when your record type opens. If you told us you're still waiting on a file, we'll send you the ordering instructions in the meantime.