Source Information
Ancestry.com. U.S., Department of the Interior Decisions on Pensions and Bounty-Land Claims, 1886-1930 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.Original data: U.S. Department of the Interior. Decisions of the Department of the Interior – Pensions and Bounty-Land Claims, 1887-1930, Volumes 1-22. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
About U.S., Department of the Interior Decisions on Pensions and Bounty-Land Claims, 1886-1930
This is a collection of decisions from the Department of the Interior on appeals for pension and bounty-land claims. The decisions run from 1887 until 1930. They include either soldiers or their widows appealing pension decisions to the Department of the Interior, as well as bounty-land claims appeals. The records are in effect judicial briefs outlining the details and the reasons for a reversal or affirmation of a decision in each case.
The records are searchable by:
- Claimant
- Date of decision
- Birth year
- Residence
- Date of marriage
- Spouse’s name
Records may also include:
- Claim subject
- Date of birth
- Birthplace
- Spouse’s date of birth
- Spouse’s residence
- Spouse’s date of death
- Spouse’s death place
- Military units
- Military ranks
- Military service
- Names of children
- Beginning page
- Ending page
- Volume