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Footnote is once again making some of their most important documents available FREE online for a limited time. Check this out!

In recognition of America’s Independence Day, Footnote is opening their Revolutionary War collection free to the public. This unique collection features millions of original records found nowhere else on the internet.
Whether you are a [...]

At its meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 10 October 2009, the American Society of Genealogists voted to give their annual Donald Lines Jacobus Award to Forgotten Patriots, African American and African Indian Patriots in the Revolutionary War: A Guide to Service, Sources, and Studies, edited by Eric Grundset, Director of the [...]

The editorial board of the Kalamazoo Gazette write an excellent editorial for National Newspaper Week entitled “Newspapers helped win Revolutionary War” I recommend it. Following is a teaser.
During the current National Newspaper Week, it’s especially appropriate to examine the impact that newspapers had on the success of the rebellion against the British.
Although [...]

TINMOUTH [Vermont] — The jury was hung Saturday in a Tinmouth murder trial 232 years in the making, leaving a cloud of mystery hanging over the 1777 death of resident John Irish.
Twelve members of the public crowd of about 80 who attended Saturday’s trial inside the town’s firehouse were deadlocked, as they openly debated the [...]

Book Review:
I just finished reading through the new two-volume set of “He loves a good deal of rum…” - Military Desertions during the American Revolution 1775-1783, by Joseph Lee Boyle. Now, don’t get me wrong. I didn’t read these books word-for-word. They are not that kind of books. However, I spent several hours between the [...]

It is planned that the NSDAR will honor two Revolutionary War soldiers by marking gravesites at the Vaughn Hill Cemetery in Wood River Twp, Madison Co., Illinois.
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution will place commemorative markers in the cemetery for the unmarked graves of two soldiers, Pvt. Anthony Alexander Harrison of Virginia and [...]

On August 24, Ancestry.com posted 301 new items, including many books that I’m familiar with. In running through the list, I find that the books seem to all be those published by Genealogical Publishing Company. These books cover many topics including: Irish, Germanic, Revolutionary War, and various countywide and statewide titles (including many for New [...]