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SUMMARY:Digitizing History & the Veteran Bounty Lands Project
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Whitman Koford\, CG\, CGL\n\n\n\nBounty land was the reward for service to veterans from the Revolution through the Mexican War. Applications for bounty land from veterans or their heirs are bursting with genealogical information\, but researchers rarely see it because records for the War of 1812 onwards are only found at the National Archives. Learn about the value of these records\, how to access them\, and the project to digitize them and make them publicly available.  \n\n\n\nRebecca Whitman Koford focuses her research in Maryland\, Upstate New York\, Virginia\, the District of Columbia\, colonial records\, military records from the Revolution through the Civil War\, federal records at the National Archives (D.C.)\, and land records of all types. She has published articles in the NGS Magazine\, APG Magazine\, SAR Magazine\, and the Maryland Genealogical Society Journal and is co-author of the NGS Research in the States series book on Maryland. She is a graduate and former mentor of the ProGen Study Group and served as its Administrator from 2015 to 2020. She speaks at national conferences and regularly teaches at institutes\, most recently the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG) and the Institute of Genealogical and Historical Research (IGHR). She served as Executive Director of the Board for Certification of Genealogists® from 2018 to 2024. In 2021\, she was named Director of the Genealogical Institute on Federal Records (Gen-Fed) in Washington\, D.C. She was elected Vice President of the National Genealogical Society in October 2024. \n\n\n\nA Zoom link will be sent to members and mailing list subscribers the morning of the meeting. \n\n\n\nThe presenters retain the copyright to their presentations\, including all images and other intellectual property. Copying\, recording\, taking screenshots\, transcribing\, AI note-taking\, or redistributing any portion of these presentations in any form is strictly prohibited under penalty of law. The official recording of presentations will be available for a limited time in the members-only section of the Heritage Seekers website. Thank you for understanding and cooperating.
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