Virginia, Southern Claims Commission Approved Claims - FamilySearch Historical Records

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The collection is NARA publication M2094 Southern Claims Commission Approve Claims, 1871-1880: Virginia and is from RG 217. Approved applications are arranged by county and then alphabetical by name. These are records of Virginia, Southern Claims from civilians seeking compensation for lost or destroyed property as a result of the Civil War.

Additional information about the records created by the Commission can be found at United States, National Archives, Southern Claims Commission. For more about the commission see the National Archives' Organization Authority Record, [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10503420 Southern Claims Commission. 3/10/1871-3/10/1880].

Related National Archives Collections

 * Disallowed Claims Files, 1871 - 1880. NAID 562207
 * Alphabetical Geographical Lists of Claims, 1871 - 1873. NAID 6256575
 * Registers of Claim Cases Heard by the Commissioners, 1871 - 1880. NAID 6256588
 * Name Indexes to the Registers of Claim Cases, 1871 - 1873. NAID 6256845
 * Register of Claims, 6/6/1871 - 6/17/1871. NAID 12008935
 * Barred Claims Files, 1871 - 1880. NAID 562208
 * Settled Case Files for Claims Approved by the Southern Claims Commission, 1871 - 1880. NAID 566157 - Search within this Series. Digital Images of Approved Claims

See also Sarah Larsen Records of the Southern Claims Commission Prologue: Journal of the National Archives 12(Winter, 1980): 207-218

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FamilySearch Catalog

 * Frank W. Klingberg. The Southern Claims Commission. Berkeley, California : University of California, 1955.
 * Gary B. Mills. Southern Loyalists in the Civil War : the Southern Claims Commission.Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, 1994. FS Library 975 M2s
 * Gary B. Mills. Civil War Claims in the South : an index of Civil War damage claims filed before the Southern Claims Commission, 1871-1880.Laguna Hills, California : Aegean Park Press, 1980. FS Library 975 H22m
 * Records of the Commissioners of Claims (Southern Claims Commission) 1871-1880: M0087, 14 roll
 * Commissioner of Claims. Southern claims, ca. 1871-1880
 * Mary Elizabeth Massey. Refugee life in the Confederacy. Baton Rouge, Louisiana : Louisiana State University Press, 1964, c1964. FS Library 973 W2mm
 * West Virginia, land records : Southern Claims Commission approved claims, 1871-1880
 * Magazine of Virginia genealogy Richmond, Virginia : Virginia Genealogical Society, 1983- FS Library 975.5 B2vs

FamilySearch Digital Library

 * Consolidated Index of Claims Reported by the Commissioner of Claims to the House of representatives from 1871-1880. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1892

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