FamilySearch has added more than 1.5 million index records and images this week from Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Italy, Peru, South Africa, Spain, and the United States. Notable collection updates include the 217,016 index records from the U.S., Idaho, Eastport, Arrival Manifests, 1924-1956, collection, the 151,020 index records and images from the United States, Civil War [...]

The following excerpt is from an article posted in the April 8, 2013 edition of newsnet5.com: CLEVELAND – About a half mile from where the New York Yankees played the Cleveland Indians for the Cleveland team’s baseball home opener, a name almost synonymous with the New Yorkers’ baseball club has been etched on the walls [...]

The following excerpt is from an article posted in the April 4, 2013 edition of IllinoisTimes.com: The Illinois Historic Preservation Agency has balked at a demand from the National Archives to return a page torn from a ship’s log so that the damaged document can be restored to its original condition. The page in question [...]

The following teaser is from an article in the April 4, 2013 edition of the New York Times: Among the most arresting images in “Photography and the American Civil War,” a magisterial exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is “A Burial Party, Cold Harbor, Virginia, April 1865” by John Reekie. The remains of five [...]

Fold3.com is one of my favorite websites. Having had a number of family members who served with the United States (and Confederate) Armed Services, the site has given me a wealth of detailed service information about them. Now I see that Fold3 is offering FREE access to its rich collection of Confederate Civil War records [...]

The following teaser is from the 25 March 2013 edition of The Washington Post: Loudoun County [Virginia] residents are invited to take family photographs and manuscripts from the Civil War era, such as letters and diaries, to the Thomas Balch Library to be scanned for inclusion in an online statewide Civil War archive. … The [...]

Read the details in this article from The GreenPoint Gazette: USS Monitor Crew Honored at Arlington Cemetery by Janice Weinmann It was New Year’s Eve 1862 when the USS Monitor sank in a storm off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. That night the Monitor and sixteen of her crewmen became a part of the “Graveyard of [...]

The following teaser if from the March 13, 2013 edition of the Washington Post. RICHMOND, Va. — They were little-known casualties of the Civil War: women and girls toiling over cartridges and primers for Confederate cannons when an explosion rocked their factory 150 years ago, leaving more than 40 dead and others horrifically burned. The [...]

The following teaser is from an AP article printed in the March 10, 2013 edition of Redding.com: ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — More than 150 years after the USS Monitor sank off North Carolina during the Civil War, two unknown crewmen found in the ironclad’s turret when it was raised a decade ago were buried Friday [...]

Photography was still in its infancy when the Civil War began. Capturing a single image involved staging a camera, the mixing of chemical, the use of fragile glass plates, and other long and intensive processes just to produce a single print. However, the business of photography was growing rapidly, and the war did introduce to [...]

“A Better Book There Never Was” proclaims Robert Hicks, author and historic preservationist, in his introduction to Company Aytch OR a Side Show of the Big Show: A Memoir of the Civil War by Sam R. Watkins. When it comes to books about the Civil War, many people agree wholeheartedly, Company Aytch is the best [...]

The following excerpt is from an article in the February 12, 2013 edition of the Washington Post. For 140 years the two Yankee sailors lay entombed in the turret of the USS Monitor, doomed shipmates aboard the sunken Civil War vessel 40 fathoms down and 16 miles off Cape Hatteras. Their remains were recovered when [...]

The following is from FamilySearch: FamilySearch Adds to United States Mexican War Index and Service Records; New Collection for United States Confederacy Navy and Marine Service Records FamilySearch added 211,909 additional images records for the United States Mexican War Index and Service Records collection, which includes a large portion of the war’s 78,718 American servicemen. [...]

The following excerpt is from an AP article posted at the January 18, 2013 WFPL website. This is of interest to Patty, as her Daffern ancestry all comes from Wayne County. Kentucky Congressman Hal Rogers has reintroduced legislation to preserve a Civil War site in southern Kentucky. The bill seeks to recognize the Mill Springs [...]

The following News Release is from FamilySearch.org dated January 15, 2013: FamilySearch added an additional 7 million new, free indexed records and images this week to its collection. Notable additions include the 1,747,863 indexed records and images in the Slovakia Church and Synagogue Books collection from 1592-1910, the 1,308,956 indexed records from the United States [...]