{"id":500,"date":"2015-07-11T16:17:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T16:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=500"},"modified":"2015-07-11T16:17:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T16:17:21","slug":"congressional-record-on-genealogybank-search-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Record On GenealogyBank-Search Suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The special report from the <a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=485\">US House&#8217;s Committee on Invalid Pensions of \u00a025 July 1854 mentions the case of Jacob Baker<\/a>. The report was originally located because a copy of it was contained in Baker&#8217;s War of 1812 pension file. I was not searching for it specifically.<\/p>\n<p><em>GenealogyBank<\/em> has the <em>Congressional Record<\/em> (in their &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/documents\/?utm_source=9378&amp;utm_medium=docs_text&amp;utm_campaign=affil&amp;kbid=9378&amp;m=12\">Historical Documents for Genealogy<\/a>&#8221; collection)\u00a0for the time period when most War of 1812 veterans would have been applying for special pension authorizations from Congress. \u00a0Full text searches of the <em>Congressional Record<\/em>\u00a0can be done using the search interface at\u00a0<em>GenealogyBank<\/em>. Searches for names like Jacob Baker are problematic given the common nature of his name. A little finesse is necessary to find individuals with names of this type.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=485\">report on Jacob Baker<\/a> does not include the phrase &#8220;War of 1812,&#8221; (some reports very well could) however, there are other key items about him that are mentioned in the report and which would be helpful when performing a full text search:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>name of his unit: Benjamin Smead&#8217;s Company, 11th regiment<\/li>\n<li>location of incident where he was injured: Fort Erie<\/li>\n<li>rank: fifer<\/li>\n<li>residence after war: Canada West<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, using these items as search terms for Baker does require that one know them before reading the document. That&#8217;s not always realistic. There are notable items missing from the report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Baker&#8217;s age<\/li>\n<li>Baker&#8217;s current residence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only reason Baker&#8217;s residence in Canada is relevant is because that is where he was living when his service documentation was destroyed in a fire.<\/p>\n<p>Many pension applications were denied. Some veterans (or their widows) did receive special pension authorizations from Congress.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have an update to see if the Center for Legislative Archives has any additional information on Baker&#8217;s situation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The special report from the US House&#8217;s Committee on Invalid Pensions of \u00a025 July 1854 mentions the case of Jacob Baker. The report was originally located because a copy of it was contained in Baker&#8217;s War of 1812 pension file. I was not searching for it specifically. GenealogyBank has the Congressional Record (in their &#8220;Historical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jacob-baker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}