Thank you for your interest in transcribing for the Pension Project.

There is nothing that you need to buy and no other place that you need to go to.
You can do a pension transcription from certain States on-line (in your pj's if 
you'd like).

Only one rule applies:
It must be completed in a plain text format, with no tabs used, only the 
spacebar. This is because your file will go up on the net as an text file and 
text files do not recognize tabs, only spaces.  "NotePad" that comes with your 
Windows platform is great for this, so you don't need to purchase any special 
program.



RECORDS AVAILABLE FOR TRANSCRIPTION ON-LINE:


FLORIDA:

Confederate Pension Application Files are available through the Florida 
Department of  State-Division of Library & Information Services Bureau of 
Archives & Records Management. 
http://www.floridamemory.com/Collections/PensionFiles/

The files are scanned images in PDF format, so you will need the Adobe Acrobat 
Reader which is a free program that can be downloaded here:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

The images can be easily located through their site Search Engine located on the 
same Florida page as mentioned above.



GEORGIA:

Civil War Pension Applications are available through Georgia State University 
for select Counties.
http://docuweb.gsu.edu/scripts/webmain.dll?Anonymous

The files are scanned images in PDF format, so you will need the Adobe Acrobat 
Reader which is a free program that can be downloaded here:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

The images can be easily located through their site Search Engine located on the 
same Georgia page as mentioned above.



REPUBLIC OF TEXAS

Files for the Republic of Texas are made available by the Texas State Library & 
Archives:
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/index.html

The files are scanned images in PDF format, so you will need to Adobe Acrobat
Reader which is a free program that can be downloaded here:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

The images can be easily located through their site Search Engine:
http://www2.tsl.state.tx.us/trail/RepublicSearch.jsp



VIRGINIA:

Files for Civil War are made available by the Library of Virginia.
http://199.111.106.8/collections/cc_military.html#colonial

Civil War:
The Virginia Civil War Pensions are available on-line but you will have to go a 
little bit deeper into the library system.

1.  You need to go to the Searchable Database located here:
http://ajax.lva.lib.va.us/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas10&local_base=CLAS10

2.  Conduct a search on the name that you are interested in.  
3.  When you find the name that you want in the search results, click on the 
    name and a Catalog Card page or listing will show up with more details.  
4.  There is a small box just to the right of the number that you must click on 
    when you find the name of the person.  Click on this box and then select
    “View Selected” directly under the header “Confederate Pensions”.
5.  A Full View of Record page will then appear.  At the top of the grey area, 
    it will show “URL(Click on link)” and the link will be shown to the right.
6.  When you click on the URL, a pop-up page will then appear that says “Click
    Here”.  Click on it and another page will appear that shows how many pages
    this person has in scanned documents.  It must also be noted that you must
    have a TIFF viewer to see the documents.  Scroll to the bottom of this page
    and click on “Tiff Tips”.  This viewer is a small program that works in the
    background of your Windows program.  Go ahead and download it from where it
    says “Shareware Downloads”.
7.  Now all that you have to do is click on any of the page numbers and the 
    scanned images of the pension will appear for you to transcribe.

You can get a template for the Widow's Application here.  It is not complete but 
you can add to it.:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pensions/civilwar/va/template.txt

Because there were so many different forms made available to the Veterans for 
their Pensions Application, a template has not been provided.

Again thank you for contacting us and we look forward to receiving your 
transcription soon.

Warm regards,
Joan Renfrow

USGenWeb Archives Pensions Project Coordinator

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