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Virginia Military Discharge Records

erutherford
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May 11, 2022 in Indexing

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Would this record be considered a death register? Each entry has the word "Cause" and a cause (ie heart trouble) next to it.

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    May 12, 2022

    These are military discharge records. The cause is the reason the men were discharged from the military. You'll see on the next 2 images in that batch "dependents" and "dependency."

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  • John Empoliti
    John Empoliti ✭✭✭✭✭
    May 12, 2022 edited May 12, 2022

    Except that an R instead of a D stands for Rejected (for a medical reason), so those persons with an R as the action were not accepted into the Military at that date/time, and so were not “Discharged” then. I’m not sure what the Project Managers would want done with those individuals. Indexing them as if they were soldiers and using that associated date as a “military” date seems misleading. For them this was not a Discharge record.

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