In remembrance this Memorial Day, Ancestry.com has opened several of their American Civil War databases to the public for free. These databases are free only when accessed through the PaCivilWar site at http://www.pacivilwar.com/freepension.html.

The databases are:

**FREE Civil War Pension Index
Images of 2.5 million Federal pension application cards that includes the veteran's name, state, regiment. It also contains the certificate number that can be used to order a soldiers' service and pension records from NARA. Many times, these pension records are gold mines of genealogy information.


**FREE 1890 Census Veterans Schedule
Often used as a head-of-household substitute for the 1890 Federal Census that was destroyed by fire, the Veterans' Census of Union and some Confederate soldiers is one of the newest census digitized by Ancestry.


**FREE Disabled Soldiers Home
Soldiers at various National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in 1895. Information includes name of soldier, company or regiment, rank, length of service, birth, age, where admitted from, occupation, married or single, and more.

This invitation is being offered only to PACivilWar visitors. The URL to get your free use of these military databases until June 10 is

http://www.pacivilwar.com/freepension.html

Follow the instructions on the page to register at Ancestry.com as PACivilWar's guest, and have fun!

Pennsylvania Volunteers of the Civil War
http://www.pacivilwar.com/freepension.html

Enjoy!
Kathi