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Revolutionary War Pension & Bounty Land Warrant Applications now on CD-ROM -- Scanned Images & Indexes



FYI: PR Release: "Revolutionary War Records on CD-ROM" Pension and Bounty
Land Warrant Applications 225th Anniversary of Revolutionary War

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:
Thomas Jay Kemp
800-760-2455 x1570
TKemp@HeritageQuest.com

"Revolutionary War Records on CD-ROM"
Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Applications
225th Anniversary of Revolutionary War


North Salt Lake City, UT, 13 August 2001.

Digital Enhanced Images of Revolutionary War Records. Heritage Quest has
announced the completion of the new digitization and indexing project of the
Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files. Now you
can use the power of your PC to find your ancestor in the index and
instantly see the original page the name appears on. Most files contain 6 or
more pages on each individual. Navigate, enhance, magnify, zoom, copy, save
and print these original source documents. This year kicks off the start of
the 225th Anniversary of the American Revolution that will be celebrated
through 2008.
Reviewers and editors should contact Tom Kemp (see contact information
above) for review copies.
This new release offers enhanced digital images of the National Archives
M-805 microfilm series in an easy-to-use CD-ROM format. There are 898 CD's
in this series. Each CD is copied from the microfilm and assigned a number
to correspond with the microfilm's National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA) identification number.

The records contain both genealogical and historical information. A
veteran's pension application normally gives his former rank, unit, and
period of service, age or date of birth, his residence, and sometimes his
birthplace. Property schedules often give names and ages of a veteran's wife
and children. The application of a widow seeking a pension or a bounty land
warrant may give her age, residence, maiden name, date and place of her
marriage, and date and place of death of her husband. Application papers
submitted by children and other heirs or dependents seeking pensions or
bounty land warrants generally contain information about their ages and
residences. Applicants often submitted the family-record pages from family
Bibles and other documents to substantiate their claims.

These Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files
contain genealogical records from an estimated 80,000 individuals who served
in the American military, navy, and marines, both officers and enlisted men,
in the Revolutionary War. Most of the records were dated between 1800 and
1900.

Navigate. Click on the document page in the Image Tree and it immediately
pops up on screen. Forward and Backward tools allow you to navigate between
pages of the microfilm roll. The software's Smart Scroll feature allows you
to navigate the document with ease -- move vertically, horizontally or
diagonally. (Standard Windows(r) scrolling is optional.)

Enhance. Make your own individual film enhancements as needed. Try
increasing brightness and contrast to reduce noise and make your document
more readable. Or, invert the documents; in this mode, you can view reversed
type as a negative image for increased clarity. These handy features make
this new CD-ROM edition of these documents even easier to read.

Magnify. Right click and hold to use the Magnifying Glass to zoom in on the
page.
Copy. Copy the entire document to the Windows(r) clipboard and paste it into
your Windows(r) paint program (or similar image editor) making an image
file.

Save. You can save your copied image file to be used in various ways. Place
that file into your favorite family tree software, insert it into a family
history or send it to a relative as an e-mail attachment.

Print. With a quality printer you can output every page of the original
document displaying your ancestors, suitable for framing. You can also
select just a portion for printing. Make a selection and print. It's that
easy!
System Requirements

Requires Windows(r) 95/98/ME/NT/2000, Pentium 100+, 16 MB RAM, 4x CD-ROM and
88 MB* free hard drive space (*Up to 88 MB may be required for systems
without IE 5.0 or greater).

To order Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files
please contact Heritage Quest at Sales: (800) 760-2455 or online at
www.HeritageQuest.com Orders for the digital microfilm CDs are processed
within three days of being received.

Editors, Reviewers NOTE: These new digital CD's are offered with a special
offer through September 30th. The special offer is, Buy 3 Get 1 Free. Retail
price is $19.95 and Heritage Quest Research Club Members pay $14.95.

About Heritage Quest
Heritage Quest(r), the world's largest commercial supplier of genealogy
data, is a subdivision of SierraHome and part of the Generations(r) family
of CD-ROM and online genealogy tools.  Heritage Quest's vast collection of
family history data includes more than 250,000 titles of books, CDs,
microform and the nationally acclaimed Heritage Quest magazine.


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