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World’s Leading Online Family History Resource Adds More Than 4 Million New Records to Its Civil War Collection, Including More Than 20,000 Letters Written to and from Lincoln. PROVO, UTAH – Feb. 12, 2009 – Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online Continue reading Ancestry Marks Lincoln’s 200th Birthday With the Launch of 5 Databases Featuring Millions of Civil War Era Records
The following is excerpted from a an article in the February 10, 2009 edition of Technology.net. Important unpublished records of the Hundred Years War are to be made available online in an innovative new project led by the University of Continue reading The Gascon Rolls – With Records of the British “100 Years War” to be Made Available Online
The following Family Search Indexing update information was received from Paul Nauta, Public Affairs Manager for FamilySearch. February 6, 2009: FamilySearch volunteers wrapped up 14 online indexing projects already in 2009 and continue to make good progress on the 38 Continue reading Family Search Indexing Update
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 Continue reading NSDAR to Place Markers on Revolutionary War Veteran Graves in the Vaughan Hill Cemetery, Wood River Twp, Madison Co., Illinois
CARBONDALE, Illinois – Mississippi might seem like an unlikely place to honor Ulysses S. Grant. After all, the Union general’s military victory at Vicksburg helped turn the tide of the Civil War against the state and the rest of Dixie. Continue reading Ulysses S. Grant Papers Moving to Mississippi State University
Footnote.com sent out an update today stating the new records that can be found at their site. The following items are new or updated for January. I added a listing of cities for which Footnote earlier posted city directories. Indian Continue reading New at Footnote.com – Indian Census Rolls – City Directories – Civil War Widows’ Pensions – Arkansas Civil War Service Records
The Shelby County Historical Society has unveiled a roadside marker commemorating the victims of the “Simpsonville Slaughter.” Following is a teaser from the article in the January 27, 2009 edition of The State Journal. SIMPSONVILLE [Kentucky] – The sacrifices of Continue reading Victims of the Simpsonville Slaughter Remembered
New Book Announcement: Civil War Veterans Buried In Stevens County, Washington Our Civil War veterans may be gone, but they are certainly not forgotten! Roger May, a member of the Northeast Washington Genealogical Society, became interested in documenting all of Continue reading Civil War Veterans Buried In Stevens County, Washington
There’s a good article in the Seattle P-I today about Fumiko Hayashida, who in March of 1942, was loaded up along with 225 other folks from Bainbridge Island, Washington – and transported to the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California. Continue reading Japanese-American Fumiko Hayashida says, “There’s No Use Crying About the Past”
New Book Announcement: Colville Collection, Book Two – Military Fort Colville 1859 To 1882 The second volume in this excellent collection, this book was compiled by Patrick J. Graham, local historian and former publisher of the Statesman-Examiner newspaper. Graham previously Continue reading Colville Collection, Book Two – Military Fort Colville 1859 To 1882
A blog announcement posted by Dick Eastman brought to my attention the fact that a new website with 55,000 early War Department digital documents has now gone online. Early War Department papers as such have been hard to come by, Continue reading Digital “Papers of the War Department 1784-1800” Now Online
The service registers of about 110,000 seamen who joined the Royal Marines between 1842 and 1936 are now available to search (free) and download (for a fee) at the British National Archives website. You may search under: Surname Given name Continue reading British Royal Marines Records Available Online
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 Continue reading Ancestry.com Adds About 300 New Online Resources from GPC
I finally got the chance to jump over to Ancestry.com’s site, and try out the new WWII Old Men’s draft registration cards that they posted. Boy, oh, boy – did I find relatives. Note that the old men’s draft registration Continue reading World War II Old Men’s Draft Cards Now Online
If you have Union Civil War ancestors, you’ve got to check out the new National Graves Registration Database posted by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. I just took a quick look and found that my Union Continue reading The New Sons of Union Veterans National Graves Registration Database