Thankful Thursday: Fundraiser for War of 1812 Pension Records

[Editor's note:  Today's post was written by Denise Hibsch Richmond.  Image credit: Richard L. Hanson.]

Thank you Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society members and friends for your generous response!

Nearly two weeks ago, the Society announced that it was joining the "Preserve the Pension Records - War of 1812 Project" spearheaded by the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS).  The initial challenge to membership was to match the $300 issued by the Board.  The goal was met within days.  Root Cellar issued the same challenge to all Northern California genealogical societies.

Noting the excitement of its members, the Board increased the challenge to $500.  Again, members responded overwhelmingly.

As of today, $460 has been raised toward the Society's goal of $500 for the fund to digitize the fragile pensions records of the War of 1812.  Double this amount with the match from Ancestry.com. (Image update pending.)

The Numbers, updated

• $920 raised by Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society including the dollar for dollar match by Ancestry.com
• 2,045 pages digitized

Challenge to Northern California Genealogical Societies
Days ago, Root Cellar issued a challenge to all Northern California Genealogical Societies to initiate their own fundraiser to help preserve the pension records for the War of 1812.  Meet, beat or establish your own goal - any amount will help pay for this mass digitization project.  Root Cellar is waiting to hear from its sister societies!

Root Cellar members and their friends can donate to the fundraiser through June 2013.  All donations will be forwarded to FGS shortly thereafter.  Updates about the progress in donations will continue through June.  Thank you again for supporting this project.

Society Saturday - "Preserve the Pensions War of 1812" Project

I suppose you heard Root Cellar SGS (RC) is participating with the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS),  Ancestry.com,  fold3, FamilySearch and many other societies and individuals around the country and the world to financially help support the
"Preserve the Pensions War of 1812 "Project

We announced our participation in this project through our blog, and then spoke directly to you about it at our April Meeting. You have embraced it and made your donations. Thank You So Much.


 ........  want to know how we are doing already? 

As you can see  from the graphic below we have ALREADY reached our goal.......
 

$300 in donations from our membership

this will be matched dollar for dollar from Root Cellar SGS organization....

 giving us $600 total donation, but WAIT

with additional matching funds from Ancestry.com

Root Cellar members now will be donating $1200

  

WOW!! I am so impressed and you should be just as impressed with your generosity and support. 

Maybe we should continue to collect and see how much more we can collect. What do you say? We were going to collect through the June Meeting and that is still almost two months. Let's do it!!!

Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society would like to challenge all the societies in Northern California to get involved with the "Preserve the Pensions War of 1812" digitizing project. Let the country know that Northern California cares and wants to support and be a part of this huge effort.

special thank you for the wonderful graphic created by Rick Hanson
...............and posted by Sandra Gardner Benward on behalf of our membership - Thank You!