{"id":11193,"date":"2011-04-10T18:35:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T00:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=11193"},"modified":"2011-04-10T18:35:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T00:35:33","slug":"the-national-archives-ancestry-com-post-civil-war-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=11193","title":{"rendered":"The National Archives & Ancestry.com Post Civil War Records"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following excerpt is from an article in the March 10, 2011 edition of the Deseret News<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The National Archives and Ancestry.com published newly digitized Civil War \"\"<\/a> records online for the first time Wednesday, allowing users to trace family links to the war between North and South.<\/p>\n

Nearly 275,000 newly published pages are among the most heavily used documents for research in the National Archives’ Civil War holdings, curators said.<\/p>\n

The pages contain about 3 million names of those who enlisted for a draft from 1863 to 1865, though only about 40,000 were drafted to fight.<\/p>\n

Archivists estimate 17 million Americans have an ancestor who fought in the war. Many may not know about their family ties.<\/p>\n

Tracing genealogy is becoming a fast-growing hobby and even “fashionable,” with a Friday night TV show devoted to celebrity family histories, said Josh Hanna, executive vice president of Ancestry.com.<\/p>\n

The company sponsors the NBC show and invested $100 million in digitizing historical records.<\/p>\n

“Family history, I can tell you as someone who’s been doing this for 15 years now, used to be a hell of a lot harder than it is today,” Hanna said. “It’s become much faster, easier and cheaper to actually do a lot of this research.”<\/p>\n

At the Archives, filmmaker Ken Burns revealed a family discovery he made from the Archives records shortly after his 1980s PBS series, “The Civil War.” He learned that his great-great-grandfather Anthony Burns was a Confederate soldier, which he called a “stunning discovery.”<\/p>\n

“He was 5-feet, 4 inches tall and had gray eyes, which I suppose is perfect for a Confederate,” Burns said of the details he gleaned from the documents. “He stated to a copyist \u2026 that he was a blacksmith in life and had been ‘forced’ to join the Confederate Army, which I don’t think is quite accurate.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Click on the graphic below to search for Civil War documents you may not have seen before!<\/strong>
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Full disclosure: I have an affiliate relationship with Ancestry.com, have used their databases for years, and recommend their services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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