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Command Your Research: 3 Tactics for Organizing Your Military Ancestors

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As family history researchers, organizing our military ancestors is vital for efficient and effective research. During Memorial Day, we honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice in service, and many of us have multiple military ancestors in our family trees. By organizing them, we gain quick visibility into who those family members are, thus enabling […]

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New Discovery – House Address!

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I’ve written a few blog posts lately about the home of my great-grandparents, Abraham & Martha McNair. Well, here comes another one! However, in this case, I am pleased to have found a new discovery about their home. Namely, their address prior to the home that has been such a beacon for my family history

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New on the Genealogy Bookshelf

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I wanted to share the two newest additions to my personal library – well, one of them will stay with me and one won’t. The first book is Kenyatta Berry‘s “The Family Tree Toolkit: A Comprehensive Guide to Uncovering Your Ancestry and Researching Genealogy.” Kenyatta is a notable genealogist and one of the hosts of

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NARA Compiled Service Records @ Internet Archive

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Last month I posted about the Allen County Public Library adding NARA microfilm records to the Internet Archive.  In following my RSS feed, today I saw that they began adding another set — the Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War (M881). The Compiled Service Records are available

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VA Pension Cards 1907-1933 Going Online

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For the last two months I have been actively monitoring items added to the Texts collection at the Internet Archive (IA).  By subscribing to several different RSS feeds, I’m able to check them every few days and see what is being uploaded.  For example, I learned that UNC Chapel Hill Library has been adding old

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Family History in San Francisco

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Have you ever been on an aircraft carrier?? I had a chance to visit one this past week during a recent trip to San Francisco.  I was in the city for academic reasons (attending the American Medical Informatics Association annual conference), but since I’d found out in May that the USS Hornet was now a

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My Visit to Pearl Harbor

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I’ve just returned home from a 4 day visit to the beautiful island of Oahu, Hawaii. I was there for a business trip, the annual gathering of the Medical Library Association. It has been busy and interesting and on Monday I had a chance to do something I had been looking forward to for months –

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Follow-up for Lorenza

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My last post on my mother’s uncle Lorenza was very well received by my family members.  Two cousins as well as Lorenza’s aunt Martha (who is 80+ years old and sends email and is online!) also commented.  Everyone seemed to really appreciate it. After that post, I digiscrapped a layout for him.  The layout uses

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Our Family and WWII

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This is a post I’ve been wanting to write for a couple of years now as it was one of the most interesting history lessons I had early on when I started doing my genealogy in 2006. December 7th marks the anniversary of Pearl Harbor and my great-uncle,  Lorenza McNair (1921-2005), was in the military

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Patrick Golden’s Congressional Medal of Honor

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My next few posts are likely to be posts about genealogy searching I am doing for friends of mine. My obsession lies not only in my family tree, but in others as well! One family I am working on is that of Clancy family. This family is of Irish descent and from the early 1900’s

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