The National Cemetery Administration of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs updates its burial lists daily. Hopefully, they sometimes find the names of Civil War soldiers buried as unknown.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. – William Shakespeare
The National Cemetery Administration of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs updates its burial lists daily. Hopefully, they sometimes find the names of Civil War soldiers buried as unknown.
An article in the Washington Post dated Jan. 14, 2022, states that they’re researching over 5,500 members of Congress who were born before 1840; over 1700 owned people. There were
An article on aish.com explains why Jewish people (and others) didn’t have their names changed at Ellis Island. Their interviews took at least 20 minutes, and their documents were checked,
There is an article on canadashistory.ca posted on March 12, 2021, about the 1666 Census of New France, referred to as the Talon-Trudel census. The is also an article posted
From American Heritage Magazine Feb 1973: During the War of 1812, there were over five thousand American POWs in HM Dartmoor Prison in England. They were sailor privateers, merchant seamen
Also found: www.acadian.org website which has different topics you can research. Remember the 1950 census will be out in a few months.
I came across a copy of the Shamrock Leaf Newsmagazine in the Archival Room at the Caribou library. Did more research online and found www.newirelandnb.ca. That takes you to old
I have two pictures of soldiers, who were friends of my grandfather, in their uniforms from WWI. William J. LaClair of So Brewer It’s a studio photo taken in Coblenz.
We all have family anecdotes. Are yours written down? We’re familiar with the grandma and grandpa books with questions. A friend is asking these questions of her mother-in-law by email.
A town may never have had its own newspaper but, its news may be included in a nearby paper. The newspaper could be just across the state line. If your