Here's some advice from Amy Johnson Crow's blog on how to get an idea of what your Civil War ancestor looked like.
Thursday, December 29, 2016
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Preserving Your Past
Here is the first in a series of articles from the Florida State Archives Florida Memory blog about how to preserve important papers, photos, etc.
Monday, December 12, 2016
Freedmen's Bureau database
The Freedmen's Bureau was formed by the federal government after the Civil War to provide assistance to former slaves. The database includes information about freedmen from 15 states and the District of Columbia. Read about the database and find a link to it here . source: ResearchBuzz
Friday, December 9, 2016
Using Evernote for Genealogy
Evernote is a very useful tool for online genealogy. Take a look at this collection of YouTube videos explaining what you can do with it.
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War of 1812 pension files
Pension files for the War of 1812 are now available at Fold3 on the library's website. 83% of the 7.2 million pages have been added so...
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Buncombe County (NC) has added 50,000 names to its Slave Deeds database. To read about it and find links to the database, click here. ...
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Sometimes information about our ancestors can come from places where we'd rather not find it, such as arrest and prison records. This ...
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Volunteers organized by the nonprofit Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund have found photos for all of the 58000 Americans who lost their lives ...