{"id":4344,"date":"2016-02-09T08:28:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T14:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4344"},"modified":"2016-02-10T09:13:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T15:13:56","slug":"surveying-union-pensioners-in-january-of-1898","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/09\/surveying-union-pensioners-in-january-of-1898\/","title":{"rendered":"Surveying Union Pensioners in January of 1898"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your Civil War veteran relative was receiving a Union pension in January of 1898, he should have been sent this questionnaire asking about his marital status, previous wives, and children. There may be dates of death or marriage on that sheet that are not available elsewhere, especially in locations that don&#8217;t keep vital records. The illustration is from a Missouri veteran&#8217;s file and gives the name and death date for the veteran&#8217;s previous wife. Another sheet was needed to give the names and dates of birth for all his children. Civil War pensions for Union veterans are at the National Archives in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>These cards are contained within the veteran&#8217;s pension file. They are not a separate set of records.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases this may be information you already have. In others, it could be a real help.<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1898questions.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4345\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4345\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1898questions.jpg\" alt=\"1898questions\" width=\"700\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1898questions.jpg 700w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1898questions-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1898questions-624x520.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your Civil War veteran relative was receiving a Union pension in January of 1898, he should have been sent this questionnaire asking about his marital status, previous wives, and children. There may be dates of death or marriage on that sheet that are not available elsewhere, especially in locations that don&#8217;t keep vital records. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}