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Test pile drivings will begin later this month at the USS Arizona Memorial Visitor Center site at Pearl Harbor as work begins on a $58 million program to rebuild the tourist destination’s facilities. Watts Constructors LLC was awarded a $32.6 Continue reading USS Arizona Memorial Visitor Center to be Demolished and Rebuilt
Finding 1861–1869 Names of Residents & Civil War Soldiers – Part One, By William Dollarhide Most genealogical records created during the decade of the Civil War are related to the soldiers and regiments of the Union and Confederate states. But Continue reading Finding 1861–1869 Names of Residents & Civil War Soldiers
Book Review: Cavalryman of the Lost Cause – A Biography of J.E.B. Stuart, by Jeffrey D. Wert One of the little side-benefits of publishing GenealogyBlog.com is that publishers often send me copies of their books for review. Many genealogy-related books Continue reading Cavalryman of the Lost Cause – A Biography of J.E.B. Stuart
The following news release was written by Minnesota Historical Society staff: A project to restore fragile Civil War battle flags in the Minnesota Historical Society’s collection has been selected to receive funding from the Save America’s Treasures program, which is Continue reading Rare Civil War & Spanish-American War Battle Flags to Be Restored at the Minnesota Historical Society
Tarlton Corporation is taking on an expanded role on the new $100 million 474,690-square-foot National Archives and Records Administration military personnel records facility to be built in north St. Louis County. The new role for Tarlton came about as Barry Continue reading Tarlton Corporation to Take on Expanded Role in the Construction of the New Military Personnel Records Center
Dick Eastman reported about the amazing Geneva WWI Red Cross Archive this morning – and I just had to check it out for myself. It seems that these records have been kept in file drawers in the dusty basement of Continue reading WWI Red Cross Archive in Geneva Now Reveals Details on 20 Million Casualties
For many decades, the descendants of Irish immigrant and watchmaker, Jonathan Dillon, have carried a family story about Dillons having secreted a message within the pocket watch of President Abraham Lincoln. The story was that he just happened to be Continue reading Abe Lincoln’s Pocket Watch & its Secret Message
Book Review: General Lee’s Army – From Victory to Collapse, by Joseph T. Glatthaar During my lifetime, I’ve often heard it said that the American Civil War was fought, not specifically over slavery, but over state’s rights. That sounded plausible Continue reading General Lee’s Army – From Victory to Collapse
The U.S.S. Utah sank in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The ship and its crew are now being remembered and honored at a program marking the 100th anniversary of the laying of the battleship’s keel. Following Continue reading Remembering the U.S.S. Utah
Book Review: Daddy’s War: Greek American Stories Irene Kacandes tells the story of her family’s Second World War experiences – a story drawn from interviews with her siblings as well as her father in his old age. The parental interviews Continue reading Daddy’s War: Greek American Stories
The following data is new this month at Footnote.com: Civil War Union Soldier Service Records: Mississippi Missouri Utah Territory Dakota Territory Danish West Indies – Slavery and Emancipation (1672-1917) Military Intelligence Division – Negro Subversion (1917-1941) Secretary of the Interior Continue reading New At Footnote.com
Bill Heron, of Welland, Ontario has a family whose members served in the Crimean War, the Boer War, the First World War and Second World War. So Bill set off to write the story of 431 RCAF (Iroquois) Squadron, with Continue reading A Yorkshire Squadron: History of 431 RCAF Squadron
Remains of around 400 British and Australian soldiers from the World War One are to be exhumed from a French battlefield and individually buried, it was announced yesterday. The excavation of six mass graves in Fromelles will begin in May Continue reading 400 British & Australian Fallen on French Battlefield to be Exhumed & Reburied
Voter registration records have long been used by genealogists – most often considered as an added proof of residence in a community, but also useful in establishing length of that residence and nativity. The Alabama Department of Archives and History Continue reading The 1867 Alabama Voter Registration Database & Digitized Images Online
The Missouri History Museum recently launched the Genealogy and Local History Index which includes references to hundreds of thousands of St. Louis ancestors. In this index, you can search by personal name, business/corporate name, or street address. (The latter search Continue reading The New Missouri History Museum “Genealogy & Local History Index” Online