The Irish Potato famine of the 1845-1851 caused hundreds of thousand of Irish to leave their home country for the U.S. We were surprised to learn that the blight that destroyed much of the potato crop in Ireland was imported from the east coast of the U.S.
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Slave surnames
This article from the theroot.com explains why determining the surname of an enslaved person can be difficult.
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The Soldiers and Sailors Database maintained on the National Park Service website contains the records of six million men who served both...
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