Below is a pathfinder to help you zero in on local Revolutionary War content in the Fold3. database (fee based service)
Search tips for some additional sites (these are free) include:
- Revolutionary War Pensions (revwarny.com)
- No index, so use Google site search string (telling Google to search within a specific website).
- Example: site:http://revwarny.com/ fishkill
- Founders Online (founders.archive.gov)
- Transcribed primary documents from several sources, including the George Washington Papers.
- Try searching for your location or an official from your area.
- Library of Congress Digital Collections: (www.loc.gov/collections): these contain IMAGES of some documents that are transcribed in Founders Online.
General search tip:
- You are searching for TRANSCRIPTIONS OF HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENTS from a time when lots of people spelled phonetically! Try different spellings and configurations. Usually the transcriptions do NOT "standardize" proper names, but what was written at the time.
- Examples:
- "Fish kill" (in quotes, if using Google or another search engine) in addition to Fishkill
- Pokeepsie in addition to Poughkeepsie
- Sulivan in addition to Sullivan
- and so forth!
