Civil War buffs will have a new online tool to use thanks to a grant the Tennessee State Library and Archives has received.
The $40,750 grant from the National Park Service’s American Battlefield Protection Program will allow the state to develop an online database of the state’s Civil War battlefields.
The database [...]
The following news release was received from Debra Chatfield at FindMyPast.co.uk:
Chelsea Pensioners British Army Service Records 1760-1854 now available to search online
In-depth and colorful insight into the lives of ordinary ranking soldiers
Records include servicemen born in the UK and throughout the world, including India and Jamaica
Leading family history website findmypast.co.uk has added a further [...]
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 [...]
Thanks to blogs found at ResearchBuzz and Syracuse.com, I ran across a new database at the New Jersey State Department website that I’m sure my readers will want to know about - and just in time for Memorial Day!
The website is titled “Civil War Treasury Vouchers, 1861-1865,” and it includes over 9,300 Soldiers’ discharge certificates [...]
An interesting article was posted in the Washington Post site yesterday. The article deals with files on soldiers, celebrities, and non-celebrities alike that are easily available through the Freedom of Information Act. The info came from the GovernmentAttic.org website initially. Two major files are dealt with in the article:
The VIP List:The National Personnel Records Center [...]
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 [...]
Author Lois Herr has stopped by to answer your questions about her new book “Dear Coach: Letters Home from WWII.” Please join me in welcoming Lois Herr.
Thank you for having me! I received some very good questions and can’t wait to share my answers. But first, for those unfamiliar [...]
I’m now writing for Family Chronicle, and while corresponding yesterday with publisher Ed Zapletal, he told me about a new publication from Moreshead Magazines Ltd that will be widely available within a few days. Ed sent me a PDF of the 95-page publication, allowing me to do a pre-pub review. The title of the [...]
The following news release was received from Anastasia Tyler at Ancestry.com:
PROVO, UT (Nov. 11, 2009) – Ancestry.com today added more than 600 Navy cruise books to its online collection of military records to commemorate Veterans Day. This historic effort is the result of an agreement between Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online resource for family history, [...]
Family Roots Publishing Company is offering Bill Dollarhide’s new Genealogical Resources of the Civil War Era .
Following is the description of the book:
Most genealogical records during the decade of the Civil War are related to the soldiers and regiments of the Union and Confederate military. However, there are numerous records relating to the [...]
HE CALLS her Marples and she refers to him affectionately as Sherlock. He is a determined, quiet cop with a forensic background, while she is a chatty grandmother with degrees in social research and 30 years of genealogy experience. They live vastly different lives on opposite sides of the continent, but West Australian Sandra Playle [...]
The following News Release was written by FamilyRelatives.com staff:
From Waterloo to the Charge of the Light Brigade to the Great War
Familyrelatives.com is proud to announce the addition of 1,000,000 New Military Records spanning over 100 years.
This autumn marks the 201st anniversary of the beginning of the Peninsular War and to commemorate, the [...]
It was announced today that Ancestry.co.uk has now posted the entire collection of the British WWI Service Records. Since the press release mentioned Basil Rathbone (Remember the Sherlock Homes movies?), I did a search for him, and found him soon enough, even though the indexer misspelled his name as Basit. As you can see, the [...]
State archives and history officials are attempting to come up with details about the veterans whose 11,427 names are carved in the West Virginia Veterans Memorial at the State Capitol in Charleston, West Virginia.
For the last five years, the West Virginia Division of Culture and History has been gathering information for use [...]
San Leandro, CA, November 02, 2009 - (PR.com) - Join Author Anita Wills for a Presentation of her book “Pieces of the Quilt: The Mosaic of An African American Family.” It is author Anita Wills, second book, after “Notes and Documents of Free Persons of Color”. Ms. Wills’ writes from a Historical and Genealogical perspective, [...]
