Texas Genealogy Events Calendar
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The following genealogical events are currently scheduled. This calendar includes Partner Societies that are offering one-day or multiple-day workshops and seminars, as well as national and international conferences. It does not include monthly meetings.
Check each Partner Society’s listing or website for their regular meeting information.
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1776 and Me: Finding Your Revolutionary War Connection
July 25
Session Information
- A Revolutionary War Case Study: Begin with the Organizations – This case study will follow the course of one revolutionary soldier, that captures the experiences of most of our ancestors who served. It begins with the organization of military units in the Revolutionary War. The subsequent lectures in the seminar will each focus in depth on a different aspect of the American fight for independence.
- Records created by the War – This lecture will examine types of service, compiled military service records, and where other documents can be found using a step-by-step methodology in a case study.
- Records created after the War: Pensions – This lecture will explain the types of pensions, pension law, pension application files, pension ledgers, pension payment vouchers, last and final payments.
- Records created after the War: Bounty Land – This lecture will cover the history of state and federal bounty land, French and Indian War bounty land during the Revolutionary War, bounty land acts, and the bounty land process. It will reveal the information to be found in Bureau of Land Management website relating to military bounty land.