Craig Roberts Scott
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- Business Name
- Heritage Books, Inc.
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- Non-Research Specialties
- Author/Writer
- Bookseller
- Lecturer/Presenter - On-site
- Lecturer/Presenter - Virtual
- Project Manager
- Publisher
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- Research Specialties
- Civil War
- Colonial
- Federal Records
- Government Publications
- Irish American
- Migration
- Military
- Quaker
- Scots-Irish
- Scottish Clans
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- Research Countries
- United States
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- Research Time Periods
- 18th Century
- 19th Century
- 20th Century
- 21st Century
Craig Roberts Scott, MA, CG, FUGA is the author of The ‘Lost Pensions’: Settled Accounts of the Act of 6 April 1838 (Revised) and Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the Treasury, Inventory 14 (Revised). His most recent work is Understanding Revolutionary War and Invalid Pension Ledgers, 1818 – 1872, and the Payment Vouchers They Represent. He has authored seventeen books and has several articles in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, the Magazine of Virginia Genealogy and other genealogical publications. He is the President and CEO of Heritage Books, Inc., a genealogical publishing firm with over 10,000 titles in print. A professional genealogical and historical researcher for more than thirty-eight years, he specializes in military records, problem-solving, Quakers, and publishing. He is a member of the Company of Military Historians and on the editorial board of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly. He is a former Treasurer and Director of the Association of Professional Genealogists. He was a coordinator or faculty member for several years of the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR) and the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG), and once the Genealogical Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP). He is currently the Coordinator of the SLIG Guided Research and Consultation Track, helping students solved their brick wall problems. He is the host of the YouTube @JustGenealogy channel. He is a recipient of the Grahame T. Smallwood, Jr. Award and UGA Silver Tray Award. He became a Fellow, Utah Genealogical Association in 2014.
Geographic Specialties
DC, MD, NC, PA, VA, Mid-Atlantic, Washington, DC
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- Degrees
- MA (Human Resources Management)
BA (Human Resources Management)
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- Repositories
- National Archives, Washington, D.C.
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- Lectures
- Basic Military Research
Researching Your Colonial Wars Ancestor
Researching Your French and Indian War Ancestor
Researching Your Revolutionary War Ancestor
Researching Your Hessian Soldier
Researching Your Loyalist Ancestor
Researching Your War of 1812 Ancestor
Researching Your Mexican War Ancestor
Researching Your Civil War Ancestor
Researching Your Indian Wars Ancestor
Researching Your World War I Ancestor
Reasons for Not Serving in the Civil War
Finding Aids and the National Archives
Compiling a Military Service Record
Using Fold3 to Your Advantage
Always at Sea: Navy and Marine Corps Records
Medical Records in the National Archives
Fort and Other Post Records
Pension Records: You Stopped Too Soon
Pension Ledgers: The New Census
Treasury Records: An Untapped Source
Bounty Land: Colonial to 1855
Problem Solving Techniques for Genealogists
Publishing: Getting Ink on Paper
and many more.
Will develop topic-specific lectures.
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- Publications
- The ‘Lost Pensions’: Settled Accounts of the Act of 6 April 1838 (Revised)
Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the Treasury, Inventory 14 (Revised).
Understanding Revolutionary War and Invalid Pension Ledgers, 1818 – 1872, and the Payment Vouchers They Represent
Marine Corps Deaths, 1917-1921
Officers and Soldiers in the Service of the Province of Pennsylvania, 1744 to 1764
Records of the War Department Collection of Confederate Records, PI 107 (Revised)
Loudoun County, Virginia Tithables, 1758-1786 [co-author]
Genealogy at a Glance: Revolutionary War Research
New Jerusalem Lutheran Cemetery [Loudoun County, Virginia, co-author]
Scott Family Finding Aids, Volume 1, Marriages, 1700-1900
Index to Loudoun County, Virginia Chancery Suits, 1759-1915 [co-author]
Washington County, Virginia: Minister Returns, 1776-1855 [co-author]
Fairfax County, Virginia Implied Marriages [co-author]
Index to the Fairfax County, Virginia Register of Marriages, 1853-1933 [co-author]
Louisa County, Virginia 1850 Federal Census
Co-editor, Northern Virginia Genealogy, 1996-1998
Editor, Scott Genealogical Quarterly, 1987 - 1995
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- Credentials
- CG®
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- Honorifics
- FUGA
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- Affiliations
- Associate, Board for Certification of Genealogists
Company of Military Historians
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- Blog
- stumpcraig.blogspot.com
Contact
- Website: www.genealogybrickwall.com
- Business site: www.heritagebooks.com
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Phone: | (919) 279-3864 |
Email: | crscott@heritagebooks.com |
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State/Province: | North Carolina |
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