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In 2008, WWII highly decorated First Lt. George Balthazor died alone, an “unclaimed indigent” in San Diego, CA. Through the research efforts of a nephew and records found on the Social Security Death Index, Balthazor’s story is told and a Continue reading Research Perseverance Leads to WWII Hero Getting a Proper Military Memorial Service
Air Force Records: A Guide for Family Historians, Second Edition is part of a series of books covering military records available at the British National Archives. From the Boer War, through two World Wars, Korea, Kenya, Suez, and other interwar Continue reading Air Force Records: A Guide for Family Historians
And the controversy continues… The following is from an extensive article written by Howard Berkes, and posted at the kuhg Houston Public Radio website. He wasn’t Jewish and he wasn’t a victim of the Holocaust, but the discovery of Jan Continue reading LDS Posthumous Baptism Controversy Includes Polish Catholic Witness To Holocaust
The following excerpt is from an article posted at rafu.com: In remembrance of the 70th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, which placed more than 120,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps, Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family Continue reading Ancestry.com Offers FREE Access to its Japanese Internment Camp Record Collections Until Midnight ET Feb. 23, 2012
In 1894, James A. Roberts became the comptroller for the State of New York. During his first term he took action to systematically order, “for the purpose of easy reference,” the old records of the comptroller’s department. Records and papers Continue reading New York in the Revolution as Colony and State
Civil War in Tennessee is the forth Civil War book I have reviewed in this series. Like Civil War in Texas and New Mexico Territory, this volume was written by Steve Cottrell and illustrated by Andy Thomas. This edition revisits Continue reading Civil War in Tennessee
There is an entire series of Genealogy At A Glance guide sheets. We have reviewed many here on this blog. Each is a four-page, full-color laminated guide provide a quick reference to specific research topics. In this review we examine Continue reading Genealogy At A Glance: Revolutionary War Genealogy Research
Over the past 10 years I have heard many comments about U.S. military forces being spread across too many different conflicts in too many places. However, history shows the U.S. has fought multiple wars and wars on multiple fronts time Continue reading Civil War and the Indian Wars
Several weeks ago I reviewed Civil War in Kansas, one of series of books by different authors about the Civil War on a state and territory level. In the review, I discussed the value of studying history beyond the stories Continue reading Civil War — Another State
The following U.S.A. vital-records oriented databases have been added or updated at FamilySearch.org since my last posting made November 26. New data has been added for 24 states & the District of Columbia! We’ve also updated all five of the Continue reading New USA Vital Records Data at FamilySearch.org
Today most Americans remember the War of 1812 for inspiring Francis Scott Key to write “The Star Spangled Banner.” Many of the conflict’s most familiar events—the battle of New Orleans, impressment of American sailors into the British Navy, and the Continue reading “Border Troubles in the War of 1812” – Exhibition to Open January 5 at the Newberry Library in Chicago
There are so many fantastic books we would like to review for you on this blog. Many titles are new, so we want to let you know about them immediately, while others are older but worthy of examining in greater Continue reading Finding Civil War Era Records for Soldiers and Civilians
As part of the country’s sesquicentennial commemoration of the Civil War, the National archives has put together a traveling multimedia exhibit. The Tennessee State Museum will host this special exhibit from February 12 (Lincoln’s Birthday), 2013, until September 2, 2013. Continue reading The Emancipation Proclamation Leaves on Tour From the National Achieves
The Bowerman family of Ohio will represent the families of 18,096 MIA Americans lost in the Pacific during WWII on this week’s Dan Rather Reports. Dan Rather Remembers: Pearl Harbor will air this Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 8PM ET Continue reading Family History and Those Missing in Action
The following exceprt is from an interesting article posted in the November 29, 2011 edition of the Montreal Gazette. In a relatively rare admission for an American scholar, a leading U.S. historian who authored a provocative new tome about North Continue reading Canada Won the War of 1812?