M
MacFamilyTree--
Mac genealogy software reviews – Sel the right software for you
from the crop
of
Mac genealogy programs--by David A. Fryxell
“Family
Tree Magazine,”
Vol. 9, Issue 4, July 2008, pp 46-53
Macler
Bible - Bible Records contributed by Michelle Cox
“NGSQ”
- Volume 93, No. 2, June 2005, pp 148-149
Madame X - Portrait of Madame X by John Singer Sargent -
A clarification of the person and family of Madame X - “Madame
X”: Virginie Amelie “Mimi” Avegno (Mme. Gautreau)
and a family note in art history - by Robert de Berardinis
“NGSQ,”
Vol. 90, No. 1, March 2002, pp 65-68
Magazines—OldMagazineArticles--
http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/
The
old articles, essays, poetry, cartoons and photographs that can be
found on the site
have
all been collected froma number of different libraries, bookshops,
yard sales
throughout
the United States and Europe.
Magnetic
Media Transfer—Got old family footage or interviews on tape?
Not safe. Transfer
them
to be safe
“Family
Tree Magazine,”
vol. 12, issue 7, Dec 2011, pp 56-57
Magyar
ancestry—ethnic group native
to and primarily associated with Hungary, a central European
state,
but also found in Romania, Slovakia, Serbia and Ukraine, with
significant groups in United
States
and Brazil
Maiden
name research—Brick wall busters—research plan to find
the maiden name
“Family
Tree Magazine,”
vol. 9, issue 5, September 2008, pp 64-65
Maiden
Names – see also Women
Maiden Names - 15 Ways to find a Maiden Name - Donna
Murray shares some overlooked resources for finding the females in
your family
“Family
Chronicle,”
March/April 2008, Vol. 12, No. 4, p 17
Maiden
Names—Finding wives’ and daughters’ names by Wendy
Bebout Elliott, PhD, FUGA
“National
Genealogy Society News Magazine,”
vol. 34, no. 1, Jan-Mar 2008, pp 17-21
Maiden
Names—Maiden Voyage by Lavonda Krout—are you lost at sea
in your search for
ancestral
maiden names? We’ll show you 10 places to lay anchor &
find your female
forebears.
“Family
Tree Magazine,”
vol. 11, Issue 4, July 2010, pp 42-47
Maiden
Names – seeking that elusive maiden name!
“Family
Chronicle,”
vol. 14, no. 2, Nov/Dec 2009, p 49
Mail
& Mailings - see also Post Office
Mailing
Lists - A brief history of genealogy mailing lists - by Drew Smith,
MLS
“NGS
NewsMagazine”
Jan/Feb/Mar 2006 pp 55-57
Mailing Lists - George G. Morgan explains how mailing
lists can benefit your genealogy - extend your research reach with
mailing lists.
“Internet
Genealogy,”
Vol.2, No. 6, February/March 2008, pp 33-35
Manners
- see Etiquette
Manufacturers
Schedules - see Census - Manufacturers Schedules
Manufacturing
& industry censuses -- Special Help
“Family
Tree Magazine,”
vol. 10, issue 4, July 2009, pp 21-27
Manuscript
Repositories - see Repositories, Manuscript
Map history site - http://www.maphistory.info/
Maps
- see Gazetteers, Geography
Maps
– American Geographical Society Library digital map collection.
– U of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee
is the host site of this collection
www.uwm.edu/Library/digilib/maps/index.html
Maps
– American Memory Collection –
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtm/gmdhome.html
Maps
-- Atlas, Maps, & Guides – http://historic-atlas-series.com
Maps—Atlases
(U.S. & World) 1822-1923-- How do you top Cram's
Unrivaled Family Atlas of the
World? By adding more than 50 other atlases to this collection from
the 19th and early 20th century.
Also look for the New System of Geography Ancient and Modern for
the Use of Schools (1822);
McNally's System of Geography (1866); the Peerless Atlas
of the World (1903); and
People's War Book and Pictorial Atlas of the World (1920).
The atlases contain maps and other
information including social statistics and more.
www.ancestry.com
Maps
– Building a Genealogical Desktop ATLAS
– Howard Mathieson shows you how to build
and
maintain an electronic Atlas
on your computer
“Internet
Genealogy,” Vol. 3, No. 4, Oct/Nov 2008, pp 19-21
Maps
- California Maps
http://library.humboldt.edu/~rls/geospatial/calmaps.htm
“The
Searcher” So. Cal. Gen Newsletter - Summer
2007, Vol. 44, No.3, p 94
Maps
– Cassini Maps – http://www.cassinimaps.co.uk
Maps
Census – www.familyhistory101.com/map_census.html
Shows
the existing counties for each of the censuses relevant to that state
Maps - Charting a research course using maps and
geography, by Melinda Kashuba, Ph.D.”NGS
NewsMagazine”
Vol. 31, No. 4, Oct/Nov/Dec 2005 pp 26-30
Maps – Civil War Maps online by David A Norris
“Internet
Genealogy,”
Vol. 3, No. 3, August/September 2008, pp 47-52
Maps—Civil
War Maps-- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps/
Maps
- Collection - Library of Congress map collections can be found at
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?format=Map
- this one has some 15
collections
including African-American Odyssey, Civil War Maps, Florida
Everglades,
Louisiana
Purchase, National Parks, Railroad Maps, Revolutionary Era, Utah &
Western
Migration,
WWII and more.
Maps – David Rumsey map collection –
www.davidrumsey.com The
historical map collection contains over 22,000 maps and images. The
collection focuses on rare 18th
& 19th
century North America & South American maps, with historic maps
of Europe, Asia and Africa also represented. The collection also
includes atlases, wall maps, globes, school geographies, pocket maps
etc.
Maps
- Digital Map Collections, World Gazetteers on the Internet
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 61, No. 6, Nov/Dec 2007, pp 93-110
Maps
– Explore Maps from the Comfort of Home by Diane L. Richard
“Internet
Genealogy,”
Oct/Nov 2008, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp 22-25
Maps - Family Maps - Beverly Vorpahl shares her system
for commemorating her ancestors’ migrations.
“Family
Chronicle” - May/June
2004, Vol. 4, No. 5, p 62
Maps - Fire Insurance Maps - Turn up the heat with fire
insurance maps by Melinda Kashuba PhD - Fire insurance maps as
research tools
“NGS
NewsMagazine” Vol.
32, No. 2, Apr/May/Jun, pp 26-29
Maps
– Fire Insurance Maps – Genealogy Via Fire Insurance Maps
– Tony Bandy shows you
how
to find valuable clues in old insurance maps
“Family
Chronicle,” Vol
12, No. 6, Jul/Aug 2008, pp 50-51
Maps
- Geneabase Maps, Atlases and Utilities - 3 CD-Rom packages
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 60, No. 6, Nov/Dec 2006, pp 110-112
Maps
- German Empire Atlas - 1883 -
http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/ravenstein/
Maps
- Hidden Web: Beneath the Surface by George G. Morgan
www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
www.davidrumsey.com
Plus many more and how to find these map sites
“Internet
Genealogy,”
Vol. 2, No. 5, December/January 2008, pp 9-11
Maps
– Historic map works – www.historicmapworks.com
Maps
– Historical Maps -- “Family Tree
Magazine,” Vol. 10, Issue 6, Nov. 2009,
p 68
Maps - Historical Maps Can
Help - by Jeffrey A. Bockman - Historical
maps are a great resource to help learn about a place at a particular
point in time. They can be used to locate exactly where someone’s
ancestors lived and to learn quite a bit about the neighborhood or
surrounding area. Using maps in conjunction with other sources such
as census records, city, telephone and business directories, tax
lists, and land records can help to see the information in a
different light. It might even help to locate some of those “missing
people.” Sanborn Maps
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 61, No. 1, Jan/Feb 2007, pp 16-24
Maps—Historical
Maps – Finding digitized historic maps online – George G.
Morgan looks at the
proliferation
of old maps on the internet.
“Internet
Genealogy” Vol.
4, No. 3, Aug/Sept 2009 pp 22-25
Maps
– Historical Maps –
www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/hist_sites.html
Maps
-- Historical Maps – www.maphistory.info/imageus.html
Maps -- Historical Maps & Modern Maps
www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
Maps—
Historypin is a free website from the British nonprofit We Are What
We Do that
combines
geography and history to put the past on the map.
“Family
Tree Magazine,”
vol. 12, Issue 3, Mar/Apr 2012, pp 70-71
Maps—Irish
maps—Mapping out your Irish family history—Tony Bandy
offers tips on the best
online
& offline resources for discovering Irish maps.
“Family
Chroncile,”
vol. 15, no. 1, September/October 2010, pp 26-28
Maps
– Land Patent Records and associated survey plat maps
www.glorecords.blm.gov
Maps
– Library of Congress Map Collection --
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/
Maps
- Locality Help -
When you know the U.S. town, but not the county, type in
the name of the town and the state here:
http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/townco.cgi
Put the U.S. County’s name and leave the state’s
name blank and you will get a list of the states with a county by
that name:
http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/county.cgi
Can’t
figure out some country or regional abbreviations? Check here:
http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/codes/codes1.html
Stubled over an abbreviation you can’t find the
answer to? Check “Abbreviations Found in Genealogy”
here:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/abbrev.html
Maps
- Map & Gazetteer Sites - Best U.S. on the Internet - by William
Dollarhide
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 61, No. 1, Jan/Feb 2007, pp 79-90
Maps
- Map & Gazetteer Sites - Best Genealogy Sites - by William
Dollarhide
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 62, No. 1, Jan/Feb 2008, pp 91-95
Maps—Mapping
Madness, by Ron Arons (Why maps for Genealogists?)
“The
Searcher,” vol.
46, no. 3, Summer 2009, pp 149-153
Maps - Master Plans - by Sharon Debartolo Carmack -
Don’t let geographic mysteries foil your genealogical plot.
Locate your family faster with these 9 must-have maps.
“Family
Tree Magazine,”
Vol. 6, Issue 6, December 2005, pp 22-29
Maps
– Perry-Castaneda Library map collection –
www.lib.utexas.edu/maps
Maps
-- Perry-Castaneda Library historical map collection –
www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical
Maps
– Plat maps – Federal Land Patent records &
associated survey plat maps:
www.glorecords.blm.gov
Maps
– Rumsey, David : Map Collection www.davidrumsey.com/
Focuses on rare 18th
& 19th century
North & South America and has historic maps of the world,
Europe, Asia & Africa.
Maps
- Rural Plat Maps - from Musings Gleanings by Richard L. Hooverson
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 61, No. 3, May/June 2007, p 11
Maps
- Sanborn Maps - from Musings Gleanings by Richard L. Hooverson
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 61, No. 3, May/June 2007, p 14
Maps—Sanborn
Maps—Sanborn maps online checklist
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2009/09-210.html
Maps - Surname Distribution Maps: Where’s Your
Name? - Donna J. Pointkouski looks at this innovative and
informative online resource.
“Family
Chronicle,”
Vol. 11, No. 6, July/August 2007, pp 36-41
Maps - Tennessee Atlas of Historical County Boundaries -
by Gale Williams Bamman, CG, CGL - “NGSQ”
Vol. 89, No. 1, March 2001, pp 58-63
Maps - Tennessee county formation maps –
www.tngenweb.org/maps/county-ani/tn-maps/tn-cf.html
- an excellent collection of maps
that reflect the history of Tennessee, including its
time as part of North Carolina
Maps—Topographic (topo) & aerial maps—
http://msrmaps.com/ These
maps are a great way to get a sense of the “lay of the land”
or geography for a locale you are researching. Being able to see
features, both on a topo map and an aerial map, can really help your
research.
Maps – United States Digital Map Library (US
GenWeb)
www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/maps/
Maps
of England - http://www.old-maps.co.uk/
Mapping
Genealogy—Lisa A. Alzo looks at a new way to keep track of
where your ancestors
Lived
“Internet
Genealogy,”
vol.5, no. 1, April/May 2010, pp 43-45
Maritime and Naval Sources - Watery Treasurers by
Loretta Dennis Szucs
Ports
of Departure - Maritime collections
“Ancestry,”
Vol. 12, No. 3, May/June 1994, pp 25-28
Marriage - Book review for Better or Worse by Sharon
DeBartolo Carmack - Engage yourself in 5 tales of courtship, marriage
and divorce in your ancestors’ days.
“Family
Tree Magazine,”
Vol. 6, Issue 6, December 2005, p 77
Marriage
– Love and Marriage – Social customs and financial
restrictions
“Ancestry
Magazine,” vol.
27, no. 6, Nov/Dec 2009, pp 22-29
Marriage
– Marriage and the family in the Middle ages -- author Frances
& Joseph Gies
Call
# 306.809 GE
Book
is part of the Pomona
City Library genealogical
collection
Marriage
– Brides – Unveiling the style brides wore –
“Ancestry
Magazine,” vol.
27, no. 6, Nov/Dec 2009, p 43
Marriage
– Was it kismet or something larger – Love Stories
“Ancestry
Magazine,” vol.
27, no. 6, Nov/Dec 2009, pp 34-39
Marriage Applications - Donna Murray Allen explains how
to take advantage of these underused resources
“Family
Chronicle” - May/June
2004, Vol. 4, No. 5, p 57
Marriage Banns - Publication or posting of the
announcement of a coming marriage, a period of time before the actual
marriage to allow advance notice to those that might have reason to
protest. In most
churches, the banns were read aloud on three successive Sundays.
The
civil equivalent of banns was the filing of marriage intentions.
Marriage Bonds - A marriage bond was forfeited if there
later was found to be a legal impediment to the marriage in question.
It had nothing to do with financial responsibility at all. Until
fairly recently, genealogically speaking, marriages were entered into
after publication of banns by the church on 3 consecutive Sundays.
They were originally posted on the door. Their purpose was to give
the public ample opportunity to make any legal or religious
impediment to the said marriage know before it took place. The Bond
was not a license to marry, but a bond to quarante that the marriage
could take place legally. It was entered into instead of having
banns published. It can be very useful to genealogists because the
person who signed with the groom was probably very close to either
the groom or the bride, most often a relative. Some churches
continue to publish banns through they do not take the place of a
marriage license today.
Marriage—Consular
Reports of Marriage,
1910-1949-- Elaine Strang (of Michigan) and Frederick
Donaldson
(of Ohio) were married on 27 July 1916 by Reverend Lewis Hodous,
authorized to join the
couple
by the laws of the state of Ohio. But why did the marriage take place
in Foochow, China?
Documenting
the marriage of an American citizen overseas fell to U.S. consulates
and Embassies. In this
case,
bride, groom and minister were all involved in Congregationalist
missionary and educational efforts,
but
you'll find soldiers, travelers, and other assorted American ex-pats
in this collection as well.
www.ancestry.com
Marriage
Customs - by Margie Beldin
“Tri-City
Gen Soc Bulletin”: Vol. 47, No. 1, Mar 2007, pp 12-13
Marriage
Index Form—“Statewide Marriage Index form”
(Reference
desk has genealogy forms available for you to copy)
Marriage
Photos - Contest Results, “Where Did They Get Married”
“Family
Chronicle” March/April
2006, pp 38-39
Marriage Records—at FamilySearch.org
As
I mentioned above, FamilySearch.org has posted numerous marriage
databases for the United States. Following are links to 53 databases
with records for 43 states that you may find of interest, Due to
privacy laws, recent records may not be displayed. The year range
represents most of the records, while a few records may be earlier or
later. In most cases, the records may be researched using microfilm
found at the Family History Library and Family History Centers. Note
that in a number of cases I have stated that the number of records
was AFTER a specific date. I did this when I found that more records
were within the database than I found listed with that date. I'm
guessing that this occurs when records are added, but the Collection
List Page itself doesn't get updated.
UNITED
STATES MARRIAGE RECORDS AT FAMILYSEARCH.ORG
Alabama
Marriages 1816-1957 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Alabama - 1,472,271 records as of 6 May, 2010.
Arizona
Marriages 1888-1908 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Arizona - 75,094 records as of 27 April, 2010.
Arkansas
County Marriages 1837-1957 - Index and images of marriages
recorded in counties of Arkansas - 1,694,330 records as of 5
November, 2010.
Arkansas
Marriages 1837-1944 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Arkansas - 1,005,608 records after 27 April, 2010.
Connecticut
Marriages 1729-1867 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Connecticut - 453,527 records as of 6 May, 2010.
Delaware
Marriages 1713-1953 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Delaware - 8,842 records as of 27 December, 2010.
District
of Columbia Marriages 1830-1921 - Name index to marriage
records from the District of Columbia - 242,760 records after 27
April, 2010.
Florida
Marriages 1837-1974 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Florida - 860,110 records after 27 April, 2010.
Georgia
Marriages 1808-1967 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Georgia - 1,152,385 records as of 6 May, 2010.
Hawaii
Marriages 1826-1922 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Hawaii - 103,871 records after 27 April, 2010.
Idaho
Marriages 1878-1898, 1903-1942 - Name index to marriage
records from the state of Idaho - 88,588 records after 27 April,
2010.
Idaho
County Marriages 1864-1950 - Name index and images of Idaho
county marriages acquired from local courthouses. Also includes
records for the towns of Ashton and Marysville. Currently includes
the following counties: Ada, Adams, Benewah, Blaine, Bonner,
Bonneville, Butte, Camas, Canyon, Caribou, Cassia, Clark, Custer,
Elmore, Franklin, Fremont, Gem, Gooding, Idaho, Jefferson, Jerome,
Kootenai, Latah, Lemhi, Lewis, Lincoln, Madison, Minidoka, Nez Perce,
Oneida, Payette, Power, Shoshone, Teton, Twin Falls, Valley, and
Washington - 148,053 records as of 19 October, 2010.
Illinois,
Cook County Marriages 1871-1920 - Name index and images of
marriage licenses and returns recorded at Cook County, Illinois -
including the City of Chicago - 865,669 records as of 26 April, 2010.
Indiana
Marriages 1780-1992 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Indiana - 1,008,396 records as of 4 May, 2010.
Indiana
Marriages 1811-1959 - Indexed in partnership with the Indiana
Genealogical Society. Name index of marriages recorded in the Indiana
Territory and in the State of Indiana between 1811 and 1959. This
collection includes searchable index data for marriage returns and
licenses from the following counties: Adams, Allen, Benton,
Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clark, Clay, Daviess, Dearborn,
Decatur, De Kalb, Delaware, Dubois, Franklin, Harrison, Henry,
Huntington, Marshall, Ohio, Owen, Rush, and Sullivan. The collection
also includes searchable images for marriage returns and licenses
from the following counties: Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone,
Brown, Carroll, Clark, Clay, Daviess, Dearborn, De Kalb, Delaware,
Dubois, Harrison, Huntington, Marshall, Ohio, Owen and Rush. -
1,008,412 records as of 13 December, 2010.
Iowa
Marriages 1809-1992 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Iowa - 2,626,423 records as of 6 May, 2010.
Kansas
Marriages 1840-1935 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Kansas - 378,903 records after 27 April, 2010.
Kentucky
Marriages 1785-1979 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Kentucky - 1,532,718 records as of 27 April, 2010.
Louisiana
Marriages 1816-1906 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Louisiana - 129,641 records as of 27 April, 2010.
Maine
Marriages 1771-1907 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Maine - 597,508 records as of 27 April, 2010.
Maryland
Marriages 1666-1970 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Maryland - 253,727 records as of 27 April, 2010.
Massachusetts
Marriages 1695-1910 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Massachusetts - 1,955,241 records as of 16 December, 2010.
Massachusetts
Marriages 1841-1915 - Name index and images of Massachusetts
statewide marriage registers. The marriage registers are in numbered
volumes arranged by year then by individual town. - 1,538,139 records
as of 28 December, 2010.
Michigan
Marriages 1822-1995 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Michigan - 1,908,349 records as of 4 May, 2010.
Michigan
Marriages 1868-1925 - Name index and images of marriages
recorded in the State of Michigan. In some instances, marriages were
celebrated and recorded in a county different from the county where
the marriage license was issued. - 1,533,863 records as of 5 May,
2010.
Minnesota
Marriages 1849-1950 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Minnesota - 459,384 records after 6 May, 2010.
Montana
Marriages 1889-1947 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Montana - 20,739 records as of 27 December, 2010.
Montana
County Marriages 1865-1950 - Name index and images of Montana
county marriage records acquired from local courthouses - 338,109
records as of 28 December, 2010.
Nebraska
Marriages 1855-1995 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Nebraska - 195,329 records after 6 May, 2010.
New
Hampshire Marriages 1720-1920 - Name index to marriage
records from the state of New Hampshire - 439,673 records as of 16
December, 2010
New
Jersey Marriages 1678-1985 - Name index to marriage records
from the state of New Jersey - 871,503 records after 7 May, 2010.
New
Mexico Marriages 1751-1918 - Name index to marriage records
from the state of New Mexico - 93,387 records as of 27 April, 2010
New
York Marriages 1686-1980 - Name index to marriage records
from the state of New York - 742,984 records as of 13 December, 2010.
New
York County Marriages 1908-1935 - Name index and images of
New York county marriage records. The collection includes the
following counties: Broome, Cattaraugus, Chemung, Delaware, Fulton,
Jefferson, Monroe, Niagara, Oneida, Ontario, Orange, Oswego, Putnam,
St. Lawrence, Tioga, and Warren. The collection does not include New
York City nor its boroughs. - 157,260 images as of 26 January, 2011.
North
Carolina Marriages 1759-1979 - Name index to marriage records
from the state of North Carolina - 2,128,391 records as of 27 April,
2010.
North
Carolina County Marriages 1762-1979 - Name index and images
of marriage records from North Carolina county courthouses. These
records include licenses, marriage applications, marriage bonds,
marriage certificates, marriage packets and cohabitation registers. -
45,204 records as of 3 December, 2010.
Ohio
Marriages 1800-1958 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Ohio - 4,740,284 records after 14 May, 2010.
Oregon
Marriages 1853-1935 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Oregon - 57,523 records after 27 April, 2010.
Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia Marriage Indexes 1885-1951 - Marriage indexes
(imaged) are arranged by the names of brides and grooms with the year
of the marriage and the license number. The surname of the spouse is
shown in parentheses. Use the license numbers listed in this index to
find copies of the marriage license records. Marriage license records
for years 1885-1915 are available on microfilm at the Family History
Library and Family History Centers. Marriage license records for
years 1916-1951 are available at the City Hall in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. - 1,830,468 records on 25,981 images as of 29 March,
2010.
Rhode
Island Marriages 1724-1916 - Name index to marriage records
from the state of Rhode Island - 235,690 records after 7 May, 2010.
Tennessee
County Marriages 1790-1950 - Name index and images of
Tennessee county marriage records acquired from local courthouses.
Records include marriage registers, marriage licenses, marriage
bonds, and marriage certificates. records consist of packets, with
multiple documents per packet. - 24,243 as of 5 November, 2010.
Tennessee
Marriages 1796-1950 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Tennessee - 1,691,768 records after 15 May, 2010.
Texas
Marriages 1837-1973 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Texas - 2,097,030 records after 15 May, 2010.
Texas
County Marriage Index 1837-1977 - Index to a variety of
marriage records (registers, licenses, intentions to marry, etc.)
from select counties in Texas. - 166,132 records as of 4 January,
2011.
United
States Marriages 1733-1990 - Name index to small sets of
marriage records from a few states within the United States - 7,176
records as of 27 April, 2010
Utah
Marriages 1887-1966 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Utah - 308,854 records after 27 April, 2010.
Vermont
Marriages 1791-1974 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Vermont - 15,392 records as of 13 December, 2010
Virginia
Marriages 1785-1940 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Virginia - 1,264,889 records after 7 May, 2010.
Washington
State County Marriages 1858-1950 - Name index and images of
the marriage records for Lewis, Wahkiakum, Thurston and Pacific
Counties. This collection of marriage records includes: Lewis County
marriage returns, 1914-1948; Wahkiakum County marriage certificates,
1907-1939; Thurston County marriage certificates, 1927-1950; and
Pacific County marriage certificates, 1878-1947. The records are
arranged chronologically. From the Washington State Archives - 48,385
records on 42,746 images as of 26 March, 2010.
West
Virginia Marriages 1853-1970 - Name index (and images
offsite) of West Virginia county marriage records. Data is searchable
for all counties. However, records within each county may not be
available for the full year range. You may need to click on the link
to wvculture website to see the image itself. In most cases you'll be
able to click right through for a FREE image, although the site says
that fees may apply. - 1,504,135 records as of 29 April, 2010.
West
Virginia Marriages 1854-1932 - Name index to marriage records
from the state of West Virginia - 203,378 records after 27 April,
2010.
Wisconsin
Marriages 1836-1930 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Wisconsin - 80,630 records as of 7 May, 2010.
Wyoming
Marriages 1877-1920 - Name index to marriage records from the
state of Wyoming - 14,070 records after 27 April, 2010.
Marriage Records - Documents in detail by Kathi Sittner
“Ancestry,”
Vol. 12, No. 5, Sep/Oct 1994, p 28
Marriage
Records - Interracial Marriage in the 1920's by Harold E. Hinds Jr.,
PhD
“NGS
NewsMagazine” Vol.
32, No. 2, Apr/May/Jun, pp 62-63
Marriage
Records - Directory of online marriage records arranged by state &
county
http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/vitalrecords.html
http://www.marriagerecords.org/resources/state_marriage_records/
Marriage
Records – Gretna Greens
- Tuesday,
January 29, 2008 Searching
"Gretna Greens" for Marriage Records
By
Ginger Frere
Not sure where your ancestors married?
Can’t find the marriage records you’re seeking? Try
looking for records in the local Gretna Green!
Gretna
Green is a village located in southern Scotland right near the
border between Scotland and England. Until 1857, marriage
requirements in Scotland were very simple. The couple had to state
their wish to be married before a witness, they could not be within
forbidden degrees of kinship, could not already be married, the boy
had to be at least 14 and the girl 12 years of age.
In 1753,
Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act changed the age of consent to 21 and
added other legal requirements for a valid marriage. As the Marriage
Act was an English law and did not change Scottish law, Gretna
Green became a popular destination for couples seeking to avoid
compliance with the new laws. Over time, the phrase “Gretna
Green” came to mean any location where eloping couples
could seek a hasty marriage.
In the United States, the
requirements for a valid marriage have changed over time and vary
from state to state. During the late 1800’s and early 1900’s,
numerous towns pronounced themselves the “Gretna Green
of America”.
There were numerous reasons our ancestors
may have sought a “Gretna Green” marriage. Some
couples preferred the anonymity. Others were in a hurry and wanted to
avoid a wait or medical examination. Still others fled to states
where the age of consent was younger. Couples who were marrying after
one party had been divorced may have been avoiding laws that forbid
remarriage for at least a year. But in many cases, it was probably
the spontaneity or romance of elopement that was the deciding factor.
In the 1870’s, one of the popular marriage destinations
was Aberdeen, Ohio where the magistrate performed over 4,000
marriages. Many of these couples were from Kentucky. In fact, so many
that the state legislature of Kentucky passed a special act
legalizing the marriages performed by “Squire Shelton”
who was not known for his compliance with the law and who was quoted
as saying that “Love knows no law.”
In 1888, Ohio
and West Virginia required that a marriage license be obtained from
authorized county officials before the ceremony could be performed.
Pennsylvania had no such regulations and the little village of West
Alexander became the wedding destination of over 6,000 couples.
Chicago couples flocked to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to tie the
knot in the 1890’s. The tide turned in 1899 when a new
Wisconsin marriage law imposed a delay of five days between issuance
of the license and the performance of the ceremony. Waukegan,
Illinois then became a popular spot for a quick wedding.
A
June 11, 1900 Chicago Tribune article describes a race to wed
at another Gretna Green, St. Joseph, Michigan. The age of
consent was 18 and the names of the parties applying for the license
did not have to become public. “Yesterday was matrimonial derby
day at St. Joe and over thirty couples entered in the three-quarter
mile race for the preacher….The Chicago boat reached its dock
at St. Joe at 2:25 p.m. At 2:42 ½ the first couple had been
married”.
As marriage laws continued to change in an
attempt to slow divorce rates and as more states passed hygienic
marriage laws, business in the Gretna Greens continued to
flourish. On July 1, 1937 an Illinois law requiring a medical
examination went into effect. Between July 1st and July 12th, only 45
marriage licenses had been issued in Cook County. Of the 310 licenses
issued in Crown Point, Indiana for the same time period, 262 were
issued to Illinois residents, 208 of who were from Chicago (Chicago
Tribune, July 12, 1937, p.11).
In the mid-west,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Kentucky as well as North
and South Dakota, had passed laws requiring medical exams by 1939.
Iowa, Missouri and Ohio soon followed, putting many of the near-by
“marriage mills” out of business.
Marriage
Records 1891-1892, Los Angeles County, by Paula Hinkel
“The
Searcher” So. Cal Gen newsletter -
Winter 2006, Vol. 43, # 1, pp
32-47
Marriage
Records - by Gary M. Smith & Diana Crisman Smith
Church
records, Civil records, Legal records, Traditions, Suggestions
“NGS
NewsMagazine”
Jan/Feb/Mar 2006 pp 45-47
Marriage Records - Research Techniques - My Favorite
Sources - Donna Potter Phillips shares her personal experiences with
a variety of record types.
“Family
Chronicle” November/December
2003, pp 17-20
Marriages—US
Marriages in Newspapers—ancestry.com
– This collection contains recent
engagement,
marriage, wedding, and anniversary announcements from hundreds of
online
newspapers
Masonic
Records—The masons are a male fraternal organization (They have
organizations for the
spouses
& daughters of their members, primary one is the Order of the
Eastern Star).
Most
lodges send their records to the Masonic Grand Lodge of each state;
however, many
Grand
Lodges do not have the assets to scan and transcribe these hisotical
records.
Masonic
Records - Researching your Freemason Ancestor by Kathryn Parker
“NGS
NewsMagazine” Vol.
31, No. 4, Oct/Nov/Dec 2005, pp 58-61
Masonic
Research, by Bruce Black
“The
Searcher” So. Cal Gen newsletter -
Summer 2003, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp 184-188
Matriculating - “Matching Records to People”
- Which Tom Smith is this? John M. Hoenig describes profiling,
chaining and matriculating techniques for indentifying people tin
records. Family
Chronicle, May/June
2004, Vol. 8, No. 5, pp 47-48
Mayflower
II - 50th
Anniversary—America’s Hometown Girl Turns 50 (pages
315-318);
Memorable
Reflections (pages
319-320); Mayflower II Golden Anniversary Sail
(pages
321-323)
“The
Mayflower Quarterly,”
vol. 73, no. 4, December 2007, pp 315-326
Mayflower
Ancestors - Corona Gen Soc Vol. 4, Issue 4, December 2005 p 5
Mayflower Ancestors - False and Faked Mayflower
Genealogy - Caleb Johnson has collected the most commonly known false
and faked Mayflower lines and has created a web page listing them.
http://members.aol.com/calebj/hoaxes.html
Mayflower
Ancestry—Adams Mayflower Ancestry
“Adams
Addenda,” vol. 25, issue 1, 1995, pp
1-5
Mayflower
Descendants www.themayflowersociety.com
Mayflower Society - Looking for Saints & Strangers -
by Vieve Metcalfe –
“The Searcher”
So. Cal Gen newsletter -
Mar/Apr 2003, Vol.
40, No. 2 pp 68-70
Mayhem
- see Skeletons In The Closet
McGuffey
Reads—the author of the readers was William Holms McGuffey
“Keyhole,”
Vol. 37, No. 4, October 2008, fall issue, p 158
Meals
- see Food
Measures
– Arpents, Hogsheads & Firkins…Oh My! David A.
Norris explains some
miscellaneous
weights and measures for genealogists.
“Discovering
Family History,”
Vol. 2, No. 2, Jul/Aug, pp 12-16
Medical Attention – Learning about your ancestors’
maladies can help revive your research—
and even improve your own health. We’ll show you
how medical history can become
your genealogical antidote.
“Family Tree Magazine,”
Vol. 10, Issue 7, December 2009, pp 20-25
Medical
- Death and Disease in the Old Northwest by Thomas H. Shawker, MD
“NGS
Newsmagazine,”
Vol. 28, No. 1, Jan/Feb 2002, pp 10-12
Medical—Disease
was rampant & would greatly influence the outcome of the
Revolutionary War
“NGS
Newsmagazine ,”
vol. 28, no. 4, July/August 2002, pp 210-212
Medical
- Early Medical Practices by Linda Mockenhaupt
“Armstrong
County Genealogy Club Quarterly,”
Fall 2007, pp 1-7
Medical - Family Health Portrait - My Family Health
Portrait allows you to create a personalized family health history
report from any computer with an Internet connection and an
up-to-date Web browser.
Information you provide creates a drawing of your family
tree and a chart of your family health history. Both the chart and
the drawing can be printed and shared with your family members or
your healthcare professional. Used in consultation with your
healthcare professional, your family health history can help you
review your family's health history and develop disease prevention
strategies that are right for you.
https://familyhistory.hhs.gov/
“Questing
Heirs News” Vol. 39, No. 12, Dec 2006 p 94
Medical
Genealogy:
•
Cyndi’s List Medical & Medicine
http://www.cyndislist.com/medical.htm
•
Genetics, Genealogy and History
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/medicalhealthgenealogygenetics.htm#Genetics
•
Medical Terms Used by Our Ancestors
http://www.genealinks.com/medical.htm
Medical Genealogy - Inferring a family relationship
based on Medical History - John M. Hoenig describes how medical data
led to a reassessment of the family tree.
“Family
Chronicle,”
Vol.12, No. 1, Sept/Oct 2007, pp 40-41
Medical
– Genogram software – chart birth order, marriages,
divorces, pregnancies, deaths and
other
life cycle events to understand health history – by Rick Crume
“Family
Tree Magazine,”
Vol. 9, Issue 4, July 2008, pp 74-75
Medical
– Immunizations – Your Best Shot by David A. Fryxell
“Family
Tree Magazine,”
vol. 10, issue 7, December 2009, pp 12-14
Medical—Medical
Attention—learning abut your ancestors’ maladies can help
revive your
research—and
even improve your own health. We’ll show you how medical
history can
become
your genealogical antidote. Health matters
“Family
Tree Magazine,”
vol. 10, issue 7, December 2009, pp 20-25
Medical
- Old Remedies practiced by our Ancestors
“The
South Bay Beacon” Vol.
XXIX, No. 4, May/Jun 2006, p 7
Medical Terminology -
Term Definition
Ablepsia Loss or absence
of vision; blindness
Abdominal Typhus Typhus
fever in which bluish spots appear on the abdomen.
Acute Mania severe
insanity
Addison’s Disease a destructive disease marked
by weakness, loss of weight, low blood pressure, gastrointestinal
disturbances, and brownish pigmentation of the skin and mucous
membranes.
African consumption consumption when suffered by a
slave.
Ague also Ager recurring
fever and chills of malaria
Alzheimers see old name – Domestic Illness
American Plague Yellow fever
Anasarca Generalized massive edema
Aphonia laryngitis—loss of speech due to lesion
or hysteria
Apoplexy stroke, affliction, disability, handicap,
infirmity, weakness; hemorrhage of a blood vessel in the brain.
Bad blood syphilis
Barfel
Fever A hangover
Bilious
Cholera Cholera characterized by abnormal feces; liver condition.
Bilious fever Typhoid, malaria and hepatitis, fever
caused by liver disorder
Biliousness jaundice or other symptoms associated
with liver disease
Black Death Bubonic plague—Typhus
Black Fever Acute infection with high temperature &
dark red skin lesions; high mortality rate
Black Jaundice a common term for Wiel’s Disease
– see Wiel’s Disease
Black Leg Generally fatal infectious disease
affecting the muscles of the back and leg
Black Lung disease from breathing coal dust
Black Measles Rash is of a dark color
Black Plague Bubonic plague; carried by infected
rats
Black Vomit Vomiting old black blood due to ulcers or
yellow fever
Bladder in throat Diphtheria
Blood Poisoning Bacterial infection; septicemia
Bloody Flux dysentery – diarrhea charcaterized
by bloody stools.
Bloody Sweat Sweating sickness
Brain Fever Cerebrospinal Meningitis
Breakbone Fever Ill health, tropical disease, malarial
fever, malaria, ague cholera, yellow fever, blackwater fever, dengue
fever, sleeping sickness, hookworm, river blindness, leprosy,
beri-beri
Bright’s disease glomerulonephritis (serious
kidney disease) – a catch-all for kidney disease/disorders;
Chronic inflanunatory sickness or epilepsy; Chronic nephritis
Bronze John Yellow fever
Brucellosis Intermittent fever spread from animal to
man. Undulant fever; Milk fever
Bule Boil, tumor or swelling
Cachexia Weakness & emaciation caused by a
serious disease; Malnutrition
Cacogastric Upset stomach
Cacospysy Irregular pulse
Caduceus Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy the
symbol of medicine
Camp Fever typhus – was also called “enteric
fever” or “jail fever”; Camp Diarrhea
Canine Madness hydrophobia, rabies
Canker Ulceration of mouth or lips or herpes
simplex
Carbuncle A painful localized bacterial infection of
the skin and subcutaneous tissue that usually has several openings
through which pus is discharged.
Carditis inflammation of the heart wall
Catalepsy seizures, trances; loss of voluntary
motion and rigidity
Catarrah inflammation of mucous membrane of the air
passages of nose and throat, see chincough, serious respiratory
disease, rhinitis, sinusitis.
Cerebritis Inflammation of cerebrum or lead
poisoning; encephalitis
Chancre A dull red, hard, insensitive lesion that is
the first manifestation of syphilis.
Chilblain Frostbite, swelling
of the extremities (tissue injury) caused by exposure to cold,
usually affecting the hands, feet, ears, or nose. Extreme cold
causes the small blood vessels in the extremities to constrict,
resulting in slower blood circulation and stagnation, which deprive
tissues of nutrients. The condition is aggravated by inactivity and
dampness. Severe, untreated frostbit may result in gangrene.
Childbed Fever Puerperal fever,
an illness resulting from infection of the endometrium following
childbirth or abortion, marked by fever and septicemia and usually
caused by unsterile technique.
Chin Cough Whooping Cough, respiratory
disease, cough, cold, sore throat, catasrrh, coryza, sinusitis,
adenoids, tonsillitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, tracheitis,
emphysemas, asthma, pneumonia, farmer’s lung, diphtheria, lung
cancer, smoker’s cough, graveyard cough, cystic fibrosis,
pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption
Chlorosis iron deficiency anemia
Cholera Infantum plague, acute
gastroenteritis in infants occurring in summer and autumn and marked
by severe cramps, diarrhea. [galloping trots] and vomiting; caused
by poor sanitation.
Cholorea Morbus plague, an
acute infectious disease of the small intestine, caused by the
bacterium Vibrio cholera and characterized by profuse watery
diarrhea, vomiting, muscle cramps, severe dehydration and depletion
of electrolytes. The bacgteria, which are found in
fecal-contaminated food and water and in raw or undercooked seafood,
produce a toxin that affects the intestines, causing diarrhea, severe
fluid and electrolyte loss, and, if untreated, death.
Chorea nervous disorder – see St. Vitus’
Dance
Cold Fever an outbreak of Cerebrospinal Meningitis in
the spring of 1814 in Gardiner, Maine. Also called spotted fever
Cold Plague a severe form of congestive fever, seen
in the Southern States. A
malignant form of Bilious pneumonia. Form of influenza with extreme
chills.
Commotion concussion
Congestive chills A severe form of malaria
Congestive Fever A severe form of malaria
Conjuntivitus An acute, very contagious form of
conjunctivitis, caused by
the hemophilic bacterium Hemophilus
aegyptius and
characterized by inflammation of the eyelidsand eyeballs, also called
pinkeye.
Consumption tuberculosis, pulmonary
Coryza common head cold, coryza, catarrh, hay fever,
allergic rhinitis, allergy.
Costiveness Suffering from constipation or causing
constipation.
Cramp Colic Appendicitis
Cretinism Hypothyroidism, congenital, a
congenital condition caused by a deficiency of thyroid hormone during
prenatal development and characterized in childhood by dwarfed
stature, mental retardation, dystrophy of the bones, and a low basal
metabolism. Also called congenital
myxedema.
Corruption infection
Coryza a cold
Costiveness constipation
Cramp Colic appendicitis
Crop Sickness overextended stomach
Croup spasmodic laryngitis (esp.
of infants, marked by episodes of difficult breathing and hoarse
metallic cough), diphtheria, or strep throat
Dancing Plauge see St. Vitus’ Dance
Decline Tuberculosis
Delirium Tremens hallucinations due to alcoholism
Death from “teething” tooth infections
with inflammation and
cellulitis were clearly important causes of illness and death before
there was adequate dentistry.
Diptheria contagious disease of the throat –
see also Bladder in Throat & Putrid Fever
Dog Bark Whooping Cough
Domestic Illness polite way of saying mental
breakdown, depression, Alzheimers, Parkinsons, or
the after effects of a stroke or any illness that kept a person
housebound and probably in need of nursing support.
Drooping Consumptives a feigning illness many women
usedto escape intercourse and pregnancy as a means of birth and sex
control.
Dropsy Congestive heart failure (when
the pump mechanism of the heart fails and there is fluid accumulation
in the feet, legs, and/or lungs, and one tr eatment is administration
of digitalis or foxglove leaves.) Or kidney disease, [edema
(swelling) often caused by kidney or heart disease
Dropsy of the Brain encephalitis
Dyspepsia Upset stomach, heartburn, acid indigestion
Edema accumulation of excess fluid in the tissues of
the body
Encephalitis swelling of the brain, aka sleeping
sickness
Enteric fever Typhoid fever which was called “camp
fever” or “jail fever”
Enteritis inflammation of the bowels
Erysipelas Contagious skin disease caused by
Streptococci, also known as St. Anthony’s fire.
Extravastaed Blood rupture of a blood vessel
Falling Bowels or piles Hemorrhoids, dilation
of the veins in or about the anus, often producting itching,
bleeding, and pain. A common disorder associated with conditions
such as constipation, pregnancy, and diarrhea, hemorrhoids can be
treated with warm baths, ointments, and suppositories: in severe
cases, injections, freezing, laser surgery, or traditional surgery
may be necessary. Fold medicine: apply the oil or hen’s eggs
to the parts, put them in their proper place, then roast an egg, and
lay it on as hot as can be borne.
Falling Disease any of various neurological disorders
characterized by sudden, recurring attacks of motor, sensory, or
psychic malfunction with or without loss of consciousness or
convulsive seizures.
Falling Sickness epilepsy
Fatty liver cirrhosis, chronic
disease of the liver characterized by the replacement of normal
tissue with fibrous tissue and the loss of functional liver cells;
can result from alcohol abuse, nutritional depreivation, or infection
especially the the hepatitis virus.
Felon A painful, purulent infection at the end of a
finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail, also called whitlow
[Middle English feloun,
probably from Latin fel,
gall, bile
Felon in the eye A stye, plural
sties also styes (stiz), inflammation of one or more sebaceous glands
of an eyelid. Folk medicine: rub on the gall of an eel.
Fits Seizure, usually epileptic
Flux of Humour circulation, hemophilia
French pox Syphilis, veneral disease
Glandular fever infectious mononucleosis, common,
acute, infectious disease, usually affecting young people, caused by
Epstein-Barr virus and characterized by fever, swollen lymph nodes,
sore throat, and lymphocyte abnormalities
Glass Pox ASn acute contagious disease, primarily of
children, that is caused by the varicella-zoster virus and
characterized by skin eruptions, slight fever, and malaise.
Gleet inflammation of the urethra resulting from
chronic gonorrhea and characterized by a mucopurulent discharge.
Goal fever Typhus
Gout any inflammation, not just in a joint or
extremity, caused by the
formation of crystals of oxalic acid when it accumulates in the body.
It most often occurs in joints where circulation is poor, and can
even cause gallstones or kidney stones. Gout is a disease caused by
a buildup of urate or uric acid in the body, which crystallizes out
in areas without much rapid blood flow and can cause damage when, for
example a toe is stubbed.
Gravel Kidney stones.
Green Sickness an iron-deficiency anemia, primarily of
young women, characterized by a greenish-yellow discoloration of the
skin.
Gripes Colic
Grippe or Grip, la grippe Having sharp pains
in the bowels, Influenza (flu) killed over 20 million people in 1918.
Acute contagious viral
infection characterized by inflammation of the respiratory tract and
by fever, chills, muscular pain, and prostration; highly contagious
disease caused by a number of different viruses, usually begins
abruptly with fever, muscular aches, and inflammation of the
respiratory mucous membranes; its more severe forms are bacterial
pneumonia and bronchitis.
Grubs, skin worms a clogged tubular bodily canal or
passage, especially one for caring a glandular secretion: a
tear duct
Heebeejees nervous, apprehensive
Hip Gout osteomyelitus; acute
or chronic infection of the bone and bone marrow characterized by
pain, high fever, and an abscess at the site of infection. The
infection, which may be caused by a variety of microorganisms,
reaches the bone through an open wound or fracture or through the
bloodstream.
Hives a skin condition characterized
by intensely itching welts and caused by an allergic reaction to
internal or external agents, an infection, or a nervous condition;
also called nettle
rash, urticaria,
used as a term for chicken pox or similar disease.
Hospital fever see yellow
fever
House Disease Consumption
Humid Tetter Any of various skin diseases, such as
eczema, psoriasis, or herpes, characterized by eruptions and itching.
Impetigo A contagious bacterial skin infection,
usually of children, but not always, characterized by the eruption of
superficial pustules and the formation of thick yellow crust,
commonly on the face, also leprosy.
Infantile Paralysis old synonym for polio
Infection of the Brain Meningitis
Inflammation of the Head Meningitis
Intermittent Fever Form of malaria, infectious
parasitic disease characterized by high fever, severe chills,
enlargement of the spleen, and sometimes anemia and jaundice. It can
be acute or chronic and is frequently recurrent.
Jail fever typhus—also called “camp
fever” or “enteric fever.”
Jungle Fever Malarial Fever
Kaokao Hawaiian word for Syphilis
King’s Evil (Scrofula) tubercular infection of
the throat lymph glands, especially
of the neck, that is most common in children and is usually spread by
unpasteurized milk from infected cows, also called struma
and goiter;
once thought to be contracted from the touch of a king or queen
Kroop Croup
La Grippe flu
Little’s Disease Cerebral palsy was
originally called Little’s Disease because the 1st
medical records were made by English surgeon William John Little in
1843.
Lockjaw tetanus
Lues syphilis
Lues Venera veneral disease
Lumbago Painful condition of the lower back, as one
resulting from muscle strain or a slipped disk, sciatica, lumbago,
back pain
Lung fever pneumonia
Lung sickness tuberculosis
Malaria see also Congestive chills, Congestive
Fever, Jungle Fever, Remitting Fever
Mania insanity
Marasmus progressive emaciation
Membranous Croup hoarse cough
Miasma Poisonous atmosphere formerly thought to rise
from swamps and putrid matter and cause disease such as malaria.
Milk fever Disease from drinking contaminated milk.
May refer to undulant fever or brucellosis
Milk Leg a painful swelling of the leg beginning
at the ankle and ascending, or at the groin and extending down the
thigh. It’s usual cause is infection after labor.
Thrombophlebitis, often developed by mothers after giving birth.
Milk Sickness disease from the milk from cattle which
had eaten poisonous weeds (white snake root) – also called
River Sickness
The family would have no
knowledge f the cow’s having ingested theplant, and anyone who
drank the tainted milk would become very ill. Death was usually the
result.
Morbo Loacteo see also Milk
Sickness
Morsal gangrene
Mortification infection – gangrene,
death and decay of body tissue, often occurring in a limb, caused by
insufficient blood supply and usually following injury or disease.
Myelitis inflammation of the spine
Myocarditits inflammation of the heart muscles
Neapolitan Disease Syphilis. The French called it the
Italian disease.
Nepritis inflammation of the kidneys
Nervous Prostration severe or incapacitating emotional
disorder, especially when occurring suddenly and marked by depression
Neurasthenia neurotic condition
Nostalgia homesickness
Quinsy Quinsy referred to tonsillitis or strep
throat.
Ozaena Chronic complaint, allergy. Hay fever,
catarrhpainter’s colic-chronic intestinal pains and
constipation caused by lead poisoning, also called lead colic. [So
called because the disease is often caused by exposure to lead-base
paint.]
Parkinsons see old name –
Domestic Illness
Paroxysm convulsions
Phthiriasis Lice infestation
Phthisis chronic wasting away sometimes applied to
tuberculosis
Pip syphilis
Plague of Venus syphilis, Lues Venerea
Pleurisy any pain in the chest associated with
inhaling and exhaling
Pneumonia see also Lung Fever
podagra Gout
Pott’s Disease Tuberculosis of the spinal
vertebrae with destruction of the bone resulting in curvature of the
spine.
Pox syphilis
Preeclampsia See Toxemia
Protein Disease A once relatively common childhood
kidney disease that causes the kidney to leak protein. This is a
secondary allergic reaction to certain kinds of strep infections.
Puerperal Fever Illness resulting from infection of
the endometrium following childbirth or obortion, marked by fever and
septicemia and usually caused by unsterile technique, also called
childbed fever.
Pulmonary pertaining to the lungs
Pulmonary Tuberculosis TB – is a contagious
bacterial infection that mainly involves the lungs, but may spread to
other organs
Puking Fever Term associated with milk sickness
Putrid Fever diphtheria or typhus
Putrid Sore Throat Whooping cough; or pertussis,
highly communicable,
infectious disease, predominantly of childhood, early state is
manifested by symptoms of an upper respiratory infection; after
about two weeks, a series of paroxysmal coughs are followed by a
characteristic high pitched “whoop” as a breath is taken,
serious disease, whooping cough may give rise to such complications
as pneumonia, convulsions, and brain damage; infants should be
immunized against the disease as early as possible. Folk medicine:
vinegar, salt, honey, red pepper and sage tea.
Quinsy Acute inflammation of the tonsils and the
surrounding tissue, often leading to the formation of an abscess,
streptococcal tonsillitis
Red Tongue Fever Typhoid Fever
Remittent Fever malaria
Remitting Fever malaria
Rickets disease of the skeletal system
Rising abscess or bail
River Sickness see Milk
Sickness
Rubefacient, rubefactant Counterirritant
producing redness of the skin, as by a mustard plaster
Running
Scall noncontagious inflammation of the skin, eczema, characterized
chiefly by redness, itching, and the outbreak of lesions that may
discharge serous matter and become encrusted and scaly.
Salivate To secrete or produce excessive saliva, as
by the use of mercury.
Salt Rheum eczema
Sanguineous Crust scab, scabies, a contagious skin
disease caused by a parasitic mite (Sarcoptes
scabiei) and characterized by intense
itching.
Scald Head Ringworm of the head.
Screws rheumatism, any
of several pathological conditions of the muscles, tendons, joints,
bones, or nerves, characterized by discomfort and disability,
rheumatoid arthritis. See also “stove up”
Scrofula tuberculosis of the neck lymph nodes –
see also King’s Evil (it is usually spread by unpasteurized
cow’s milk; and is most common in children.)
Scrumpox A pustular disease of the skin
Septicemia blood poisoning
Shaking Palsy Complete or partial muscle paralysis,
often accompanied by loss
of sensation and uncontrollable body movements or tremors, a
weakening or debilitating influence, and enfeebled condition or
debilitated state thought to result from such an influence, a
progressive nervous disease occurring most often after the age of 50,
associated with the destruction of brain cells that produce dopamine
and characterized by muscular tremor, slowing of movement, partial
facial paralysis, peculiarity of gait and posture, and weakness, also
called paralysis
agitans, shaking palsy
[after James Parkinson (1755-1824), British physician]
Sips Fever see yellow fever
Skin Worm pathology.
Infestation of the intestines or other parts of the body with worms
or wormlike parasites: helminthiasis, see also grubs
Sloes An acute, now rare disease characterized by
trembling, vomiting, and severe intestinal pain that affects
individuals who eat dairy products or meat froma cow that has fed on
white snakeroot, see also milk sickness
Softening of the brain Deterioration of brain cells
caused by tiny strokes.
Sore Throat Distemper Any of various inflammations of
the tonsils, pharynx, or larynx characterized by pain in swallowing.
Spotted Fever typhus, cerebrospinal meningitis fever
St. Anthony’s Fire see Erysipelas – An
acute disease of the skin and subcutaneous tissue caused by a species
of hemolytic streptococcus and marked by localized inflammation and
fever.
St. Vitus’ Dance Involuntary movements, tremor,
tic, nervous disorder, Chorea (ko-reie), disease causing involuntary
jerky, arrhythmic movements of the face, limbs, or entire body, the
childhood disease Sydenham’s chorea, or St. Vitus’s
dance, is usually a complication of rheumatic fever. The
condition develops slowly, sometimes up to six months after the acute
infection has occurred, but it resolves completely. For Huntington’s
chorea see Huntington’s Disease.
Stone pock Acne, an inflammatory disease of the
sebaceous glands and hair follicles of the skin that is marked by the
eruption of pimples or pustules, especially on the face.
Stove up a person who had difficulty moving around
could be said to be “stove up.” This could result from
injury or from arthritis or rheumatism—also known as “screws.”
Strangery The process of breaking open or bursting,
the state of being broken open, a hernia, especially of the groin or
intestines, a tear in bodily tissue. Rupture
Struma A noncancerous enlargement of the thyroid
gland, visible as a swelling at the front of the neck, that is often
associated with iodine deficiency; also called goiter;
see also, scrofula.
Summer Complaint dysentery or baby diarrhea caused by
spoiled milk
Swamp Sickness see Milk
Sickness – An acute, new rare disease
characterized by trembling, vomiting, and severe intestinal pain that
affects individuals who eat dairy products or meat froma cow that has
fed on white snakeroot.
Sweating Sickness infections & fatal disease
common to the UK in the 15th
century
Syphilis see also Bad Blood, French Pox, Kaokao,
Lues, Lues Venerea, Neapolitan Disease, Pip, Plague of Venus,
Pox
Toxemia of pregnancy An abnormal condition of
pregnancy characterized by hypertension and edema and protein in the
urine; eclampsia (high blood pressure & seizures)
Trench mouth condition of painful sores in the mouth,
usually on the gums.
Tuberculosis TB -- see also Decline, Lung Sickness,
Consumption, White Death, White Plague. (tuberculosis caused the
most widespread public concern in the 19th
& early 20th
centuries as the endemic disease of the urban poor.)
Typhoid Fever see also – Red Tongue Fever
Typhus see also – Black Death, Camp Fever,
Jail Fever, Ship’s Fever
Variola Smallpox
Veneral disease see also – French Pox, Lues
Venera
Venesection bleeding
Water Pox Chicken pox, an acute contagious disease,
primarily of children, that is caused by the faricellatzoster virus
and characterized by skin eruptions, slight fever, and malaise. Also
called varicella
White death tuberculosis
White plague tuberculosis
White Swelling Synovitus, inflammation of a synovial
membrane, swelling of joints, more often the knees; a clear, viscid
lubricating fluid secreted by membranes in joint cavities, sheaths of
tendons, and bursac.
Whitlow boil – see felon
Wiel’s Disease see also Black Jaundice –
It is quite common in
northeast England near mines, farms and sewage and floats about in
water. It is caused by a micro-organism and thus is a bacterial
infection (of the liver) and not a virus, as in hepatitis. It is
carried by rats and secreted in their urine. It is usually not
fatal, in present time, to humans. It is, however, rapidly fatal to
dogs and cats, who can eventually gain a resistance, but either way
can pass it on.
Winter Fever pneumonia
Worm fit worm fit referred to convulsions associated
with teething, worms, elevated temperature or diarrhea.
Yellow Fever called the American Plague (the yellow
fever epidemic of 1793 centering in Philadelphia), see also Yellow
Jacket, Bronze John
Yellow Jacket Yellow Fever
Medical Terms - A good site for figuring out the
meaning of confusing medical terms is Rudy's List of Archaic Medical
Terms. http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/Index.htm?sssdmh=dm13.147668
Medical terms—Old Medical Terms by Dan Burrows
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wioconto/medterms.htm
Meeting my Ancestors –
“The Searcher”
So. Cal. Gen Newsletter - Winter
2007, Vol. 44, No.1, pp 22-25
Melungeons—Trail to Your Roots—set
off on the path to family discovery with our road map to research in
Appalachia by Susan Wenner Jackson
“Family
Tree Magazine,”
December 2003, pp 50-57
Melungeons—See also Appalachian
Ancestry
MemeoShare – Share life’s special photos
with family & friends—absolutely free
http://www.memeo.com/memeoshare.php
Memoirs
- The Unacceptable Memoir by Dennis McCargar
Unreliable truth on Memoir and Memory by Maureen Murdock
Truth or “Truthiness” by
Jean Chapman Snow
“The
Searcher” Vol.
43, No. 2, Spring 2006, pp 80-85
Memorabilia—Frame
those memories! Andrew
MacGregor shows how you can honor, and
display, your family history.
“Family Chronicle,”
no. 15, no. 6, Jul/Aug 2011, p 54
Memorials
– Historical Markers & Memorials – David A. Norris
finds clues in memorials
“Internet
Genealogy,”
Vol. 4, No. 1, April/May 2009, pp 40-41
Memories - A Magical Moment in Genealogy - Beverly Smith
Vorpahl experiences a special moment in the U.K.
“Family
Chronicle,”
Vol. 11, No. 6, July/August 2007, p 54
Memories—Save
your memories www.arcalife.com
“Internet
Genealogy,”
vol.5, no. 1, April/May 2010, p 22
Memory
Press - $ - http://memorypress.familylearn.com/
This
is an affordable site that lets you turn your memories into a
beautiful keepsake book
for birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, family
histories, etc. The “basic” heirloom
package is $50 US.
Mennonites - see Religion - Mennonites
Merkel,
Angela - Angela Merkel, New German Chancellor by Linda Stone
“German-American
Genealogy” Spring 2006. pp 5-6
Message
Boards – Online Forums: Let You Fingers do the Walking! Donna
Murray explains the
basics
of message boards and e-mail lists.
“Internet
Genealogy,”
Vol. 4, No. 4, October/November 2009, p 17
Mexican-American
Genealogy - See Also Chicano
Mexican-American
Genealogy - The Records are Extensive - by Beverly Mateer Taylor
“The
Searcher” So. Cal Gen newsletter -
Mar/Apr 2003, Vol.
40, No. 2 pp 86-87
Micro
Processors - see PDA
Microsoft
Office Live accounts—Research & Collaborate: MS Live
Workspace
“Internet
Genealogy,”
vol. 5, no. 3, August/September 2010, pp 41-42
Middle
Passage—The Encyclopedia of the Middle
Passage takes
an in depth, detailed look at all
aspects
of the voyage from Africa to the New World, commonly referred to as
“the middle
passage,”
an experience that can best be characterized as horrendous and
inhumane. Among
the topics covered are
descriptions of life in the holding pens and stockades on the coast
of
Africa, the branding process
performed on the captives before boarding the ships, medical
inspections of captives to locate any possible physical defects,
daily life on the ships in the overcrowded, airless, putrid-smelling
holds, separation from family members, food and water deprivation,
disease, resistance methods and strategies and mortality rates.
“Family Chronicle,”
vol. 16, no. 2, Nov/Dec 2011, p 31
Migrant letters -- http://www.emigrantletters.com/
Migration
– American Dust Bowl and a Great Migration by Richard L.
Hooverson
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Nov/Dec 2008, pp 32-36
Migration
- Association of European Migration
Institutions - www.aemi.dk/adr.php
The
Art of European Migration -
It presents a collection of images which help to tell
the story of the millions of people who moved from Europe to North
America during the past millennium.
Migration
- Canadians to the United States - by Jack
Schecter
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 60, No. 2, March/April 2006, pp 41-47
Migration - Family
Migrations: Journey to
the New World - Janice Nickerson shows you how to research and record
your family’s immigration story for posterity.
“Family
Chronicle,”
Vol. 11, No. 6, July/August 2007, pp 33-35
Migration
- Great Lakes Water Highway - by Donald A.
Sage
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 61, No. 4, July/August 2007, pp 22-24
Migration
- Great Migration Study Project - by Richard L. Hooverson
“Heritage
Quest” Vol. 18,
No. 4, Issue 100, Jul/Aug 2002, pp 81-83
Migration
- Great Migration (Puritan) - Puritan migration of the 1630s.
The Great Migration may refer to
the Winthrop Fleet of 1630; where in 1,000 passengers migrated from
England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in eleven ships. It may also
refer more generally to the Puritan migration of approximately 20,000
refugees from England to what are now the Northeastern United States,
the Chesapeake Bay area, and the Caribbean during the 1630s.
Many Puritans immigrated to
North America in the 1620-1640s because they believed that the Church
of England was beyond reform. However, most Puritans in both England
and New England were non-separatists. They continued to profess their
allegiance to the Church of England despite their dissent from Church
leadership and practices.
Most of the Puritans who
emigrated settled in the New England area. However, the Great
Migration of Puritans was relatively short-lived and not as large as
is often believed. It began in earnest in 1629 with the founding of
the Massachusetts Bay Colony and ended in 1642 with the start of the
English Civil
War when King Charles I effectively shut off emigration to the
colonies. From 1629 through 1643 approximately 21,000 Puritans
emigrated to New England. This is actually far less than the number
of British citizens who emigrated to Ireland, Canada, and the
Caribbean during this time.
Emigration resumed under the
rule of Oliver Cromwell, but not in large numbers as there was no
longer any need to "escape persecution" in England. In
fact, many Puritans returned to England during the war.
"In 1641, when the English
Civil War began, some immigrants returned to fight on the Puritan
side, and when the Puritans won, many resumed English life under
Oliver Cromwell's more congenial Puritan sway."
Migration – Modern
Pilgrims migration from Vermont to Arkansas 1817-1819
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 62, Issue III, May/June 2008, pp 18-25
Migration
- Migration and the
Origins of the English Atlantic World by Alison Games
Book
is part of the Los Angeles
Public Library Reference Collection
974 G192
* 1999
Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award in American Immigration
History, Sponsored by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society
England's seventeenth-century
colonial empire in North America and the Caribbean was created by
migration. The quickening pace of this essential migration is
captured in the London port register of 1635, the largest extant port
register for any single year in the colonial period and unique in its
record of migration to America and to the European continent. Alison
Games analyzes the 7,500 people who traveled from London in that
year, recreating individual careers, exploring colonial societies at
a time of emerging viability, and delineating a world sustained and
defined by migration.
The colonial travelers were
bound for the major regions of English settlement--New England, the
Chesapeake, the West Indies, and Bermuda--and included ministers,
governors, soldiers, planters, merchants, and members of some major
colonial dynasties--Winthrops, Saltonstalls, and Eliots. Many of
these passengers were indentured servants. Games shows that however
much they tried, the travelers from London were unable to recreate
England in their overseas outposts. They dwelled in and hybrid
societies where New World exigencies overpowered the force of custom.
Patterns of repeat and return migration cemented these inchoate
colonial outposts into a larger Atlantic community. Together, the
migrants' stories offer a new social history of the seventeenth
century. For the origins and integration of the English Atlantic
world, Games illustrates the primary importance of the first half of
the seventeenth century.
Migration
- Book Review - Transatlantic voyages, 1600-1699 / by David Dobson.
114
p.: ill., maps; 22 cm.
Book
is part of the Pomona
Public Library Genealogy Collection
R
910.9163 DOB VOYAGES 1600-1699
"This
book attempts to bring together evidence of voyages from Scandinavia,
Germany, the Netherlands, France, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the
Channel Islands to North America and the West
Indies..."--Introduction. Includes bibliographical references
(p. 112-114). Genealogy
Migration
– Map resources
www.brownhistory.org/maps.htm
- assortment of colonial, migration and other North Carolina maps
http://home.kc.rr.com/gentutor/#Migration
- Great Collection of Migration Route Overviews with Maps by
Beverly Whitaker
http://sciway3.net/proctor/marion/maps/MigrationRoutes.html
- various migration routes.
Migration
– Canada Remembers the Arrival of American Loyalists in 1783 by
Elizabeth LaPointe
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 62, Issue VI, Nov/Dec 2008, pp 42-46
Migration
– English miners from Cornwall – to Michigan’s
Upper Peninsula
“Ancestry
Magazine,” vol.
28, no. 1, Jan/Feb 2010, p 17
Migration—how
did immigrants get to their final destinations?
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gentutor/trails.html
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gentutor/rivers.html
“Family
Tree Magazine,”
Vol. 11, Issue 1, pp 58-59
Migration—Moving
Targets—Just when
you thought you had ‘em your ancestors pop up 3 states
away.
Our guide to Americans’ major migration routes will help you
trace those
troublesome
travelers by David A. Fryxell
“Family
Tree Magazine”
Vol. 9, Issue 2, March 2008, pp 22-29
Migration—National
Geographic—Major US population migrations
“Family
Tree Magazine,”
vol. 11, Issue 7, November 2010, pp-29-32
Migration
Patterns—American migration patterns
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gentutor/migration.html
Migration--
Pilgrims: New World Settlers & the Call of Home by Susan Hardman
Moore (excepts)
“New
England Ancestors,”
vol. 9, no. 2, Spring 2008, pp 31-35
Migration - Virginia to Kentucky - centered
around religious persecution and their migration for freedom from it
“Tri-City
Genealogical Society Bulletin,”
Vol. 48, No. 1, Mar 2008, pp 4-6
Migration
– 1930’s – Dust Bowl, Great Depression - by Richard
Hooverson
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 62, Issue VI, Nov/Dec 2008, pp 32-36
Migration
Recruiter – Can’t
imagine what would make an immigrant ancestor leave a gorgeous
family
farm and take up residence in that small, industrial U.S. town?
Maybe a recruiter
had
something to do with it.
“Ancestry
Magazine,” vol.
28, no. 1, Jan/Feb 2010, pp 30-33
Migration
Routes – All Aboard! Railroads & Migration routes –
Cindy Thomson follows the
Rails
to find ancestors who migrated or worked on them.
“Discovering
Family History,”
Vol. 2, No. 4, Nov/Dec 2009, pp 34-36
Migration
Routes—Early American Migratin Routes
http://www.genealogyfriends.org/handouts/Migrat3.pdf
Migration
Routes—Old
Roads in North
Arkansas—Immigrants
into Arkansas came mostly from the
states
of Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina & Georgia.
http://www.couchgenweb.com/lawrence/military.htm
Migration
Trails—Alcove
Spring, Kansas, Campgrounds
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.2, no. 1, winter 1984, pp 4-6
Migration
Trails—Applegate
Trail—Notes
& Reminiscences of Laying out and Establishing the
Old Emigrant Road in Southern
Oregon in the Year 1846—Lindsay Applegate
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.11, no. 1, 1993, pp 2-23
Migraton
Trails—Applegate
Trail—Reminiscences of Abraham
Henry Garrison—Over the
Oregon
Trail in 1846—The
train in which Abraham Henry Garrison was traveling is believed
to have been the 1st
train to use the Applegate Trail. In his Platte River Road
Narratives
Merrill J. Mattess comments that
this train’s experiences sound “like the tale of Job.”
“Overland Journal,”
vol.11, no. 2, 1993, pp 10-31
Mirgration
Trails—Ash Hollow,
Nebraska—Buried at Ash Hollow—A
major trail burial ground.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.8, no. 3, 1990, pp 18-25
Migration
Trails—Barlow
Road—First road built over
Cascade Range
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.2, no. 3, summer 1984, pp 4-29
Migration
Trails—Bettelyoun
family revisited
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.3, no. 3, summer 1985, pp 33-34
Migration
Trails—California
Fever—a
definition
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
6, no. 2, 1988, p 12
Migration
Trails—Carson
Emigrant Road—one
of 3 major roads leading from the Nevada desert
to the California gold mines and
was used for almost 20 years, starting 1848.
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
4, no. 3, summer 1986, pp 4-12
Migration
Trails—Childs’
Cutoff/Childs’ Route/Mormon
Trail/ north side of North Platte River
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
5, no. 2, spring 1987, pp 17-22
Migration
Trails—City of
Rocks, Idaho—Silent City of
Rocks—One of the
westward trails most
spectacular
landmarks.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.7, no. 4, 1989, pp 24-27
Migration
Trails—Civil War in the West: The 1864 Trail Season
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.9, no. 4, 1991, pp 15-27
Migration
Trails—Colorado
Gold Region—A Map of the
Principal Routes to the
Gold Region of Colorado Territory
“Overland Journal,”
vol.2, no. 2, spring 1984, pp 29-36
Migration
Trails—Columbia
River Gorge—The Geology of the
Columbia River Gorge—
Modern scientists have found
that emigrants’ speculation about the origin of the Columbia
Gorge’s unusual features
were sometimes quite accurate.
“Overland Journal,”
vol.10, no. 1, 1992, pp 2-14
Migration
Trails—Comstock,
Nevada—Trail to the Comstock:
An accidental Bonanza
If
the Comstock’s placers had not conveniently bisected the
California Trail, they might
have remained untouched for
decades.
“Overland Journal,”
vol.9, no. 1, 1991, pp 22-30
Migration
Trails—Council
Bluffs Road—Northern
Branch of the Great Platte River Road
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.3, no. 4, fall 1985, pp 30-42
Migration
Trails—Council
Bluffs Road (Mormon
Pioneer Trail) “The
Northern Route of the
Non-Mormons: Rediscovery of
Nebraska’s Forgotten Historic Trail
(Rediscovery of Nebraska’s
forgotten historic trail.) The
non-Mormon “northsiders” didn’t call their route
the Mormon Trail.
During the California gold rush
it was called, most commonly, “the Council Bluffs Road,”
for
the simple reason that Council
Bluffs, Iowa, was the route’s jumping-off place. During the
same
period but more often in later
years, we find other radom terms such as “Northern Route,”
“North Side Route,”
“California Route,” “Fort Kearny Road,” “Fort
Laramie Road,” &
“Military Road,”
“Overland Journal,”
vol.8, no. 2, 1990, pp 2-14
Migration
Trails—Death—A
Geography of Death on the Oregon-California Trail, 1840-1860
Death—cold,
hard, relentless. Travelers today rarely think much about it, but
that was not the
case for emigrants on the Oregon
& California trails and their branches.
“Overland Journal,”
vol.9, no. 1, 1991, pp 13-21
Migration
Trails—Death—Daniel
Lantz & the Wayne County Companies of 1850—
Detective
work of locating emigrant graves and their history continues.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.9, no. 3, 1991, pp 2-13
Migration
Trails—Denver Road
-- Platte River Ininerary, 1860—Road
ranches and stage relay
stations
between Fort Kearney & Denver City, and a journey reconstructed
from diary entries.
“Overland Journal,”
vol.5, no. 3, summer 1987, pp 14-24
Migration
trails—Diary—Before
the Oregon Trail Charles Larpenteur Goes West in 1833
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.7, no. 3, 1989, pp 29-32
Migration
Trails—Diary—“O
Wickedness, Where Is Thy Boundary?” –The
1850 California
Gold Rush Diary of George
Shipard—notes by David Bigler, Donald Buck and Merrill J.
Mattes
“Overland Journal,”
vol.10, no. 4, 1992, pp 2-33
Migration
Trails—Diary
of Randall Fuller, who traveled over many western trails
between 184-1893
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
6, no. 4, 1988, pp 2-34
Migration
Trails—Diary
of Stanislaus Lasselle (1849)—A southern trail used by
thousands of
Goldrushers
& California-bound emigrants.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.9, no. 2, 1991, pp 2-33
Migration
Trails—Diary—Report
of Capt. Medorem Crawford, Part I –Medorem
Crawford, a
native of New York, emigrated to
the Oregon country in 1842. He married Miss Adeline Brown.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.2, no. 3, summer 1984, pp 36-42
Migration
Trails—Diary—Report
of Capt. Medorem Crawford, Part II—Capt
Crawford left the
Missouri
River at Omaha on 5 Jun 1862, bound for Walla Walla, Washington.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.2, no. 4, fall 1984, pp 27-38
Mirgration
Trails—Diary—Report
of Capt. Medorem Crawford, Part III
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.3, no. 1, winter 1985, pp 36-40
Migration
Trails—Diary—Oregon
Odyssey of William N. Byers, Part I
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.1, no. 1, July 1983, pp 14-23
Migration
Trails—Diary—Oregon
Odyssey of William N. Byers, Part II
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.1, no. 2, fall 1983, pp 12-21
Migration
Trails—Diary—Oregon
Odyssey of William N. Byers, Part III
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.2, no. 1, winter 1984, pp 14-23
Migration
Trails—Diary—Oregon
Odyssey of William N. Byers, Part IV
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.2, no. 2, spring 1984, pp 23-28
Migration
Trails—Diary—Overland
Trail Diary of Franklin E. Adams:
Upward Bound
in 1865—Events
& sites along the route of the Overland Stage Line, a principal
westward corridor from
1862-1868.
“Overland Journal,”
vol.5, no. 4, fall 1987, pp 8-23
Migration
Trails—Doctors—Oregon—Delivered
by Doctors
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.2, no. 1, winter 1984, pp 7-11
Migration
Trails—Donner
Party Archaeology—A
new archaeology report settles a controversy
about the location of the Donner
family camp.
“Overland Journal,”
vol. 10, no. 3, 1992, pp 18-26
Migration
Trails—Dust,
Stickers, and Mud—a
Children’s Story
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.3, no. 1, winter 1985, pp 16-20
MigrationTrails—Early
American Roads & Trails—Find
maps and history to trace
your ancestors along the trails that helped settle
American
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gentutor/trails.html
Migration
Trails—Elevation
Measurements by the early army
explorers
(Relatively
accurate, if somewhat primitive measurements.)
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.8, no. 1, 1990, pp 29-32
Migration
Trails—Emigrant
Party on the Road—Scenes on the
Plains—The dangers
& hardships
encountered
are graphically depicted in the various spirited illustrations which
are here presented
by
the artist.
“Overland Journal,”
vol.5, no. 3, summer 1987, pp 2-6
Migration
Trails—Firearms—Firearms
on the Overland Trails—Although a necessity on the trail,
firearms
were often a curse.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.9, no. 1, 1991, pp 2-12
Migration
Trails—Fitzhugh’s
Mill—Whatever happened to
Fitzhugh’s Mill—The
rendezvous
point
for the Great Migration of 1843.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.9, no. 4, 1991, pp 2-14
Migration
Trails—Food
on the Oregon Trail—This
article, which is packed with new information
about
food products available to the emigrants, is not just for readers
interested in the
Oregon
Trail but for anyone interested in the history of food in the United
States.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.11, no. 2, 1993, pp 2-9
Migration
Trails—Fort
Bridger—A
fort which served many purposes, had many incarnations.
“Overland Journal,”
vol.8, no. 2, 1990, pp 25-34
Migration
Trails—Geology
and the Emigrant—Part I—by Charles W. Martin, Jr.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.3, no. 1, winter 1985, pp 4-8
Migration
Trails—Geology
and the Emigrant—Part II—by Charles W. Martin, Jr.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.3, no. 2,spring 1985, pp 17-21
Migration
Trails—Geology
and the Emigrant—Part III—by Charles W. Martin, Jr.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.3, no. 3, summer 1985, pp 28-32
Migration
Trails—Goodale’s
Cutoff—Old
Fort Hall to Boise City—Tim Goodale &
His Cutoff:
A
Major Trail Segment During & After the Fourth Emigration Wave.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.8, no. 3, 1990, pp 9-16
Migration
Trails—Grave—Who
Lies Here?—Emigrant
Spring on the Slate Creek Cutoff
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.3, no. 4, fall 1985, pp 4-11
Migration
Trails—Graves—Descendants
Locate Grandmother’s Grave on Wyoming Plain
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
10, no. 2, 1992, pp 21-26
Migration
Trails—Graves—Emigrant
Graves (Martin Ringo, Quintina Snodderly,
Ephriam
Brown, Charles Bishop)
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
7, no. 1, 1989, pp 19-32
Migration
Trails—Holiday on
the Trail—The
4th
of July was the only national holiday that
occurred
while most emigrants were on the trail and for many it reaffirmed
that, indeed, they
were
Americans even though they were beyond the bounds of the country.
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
10, no. 2, 1992, pp 2-20
Migration
Trails—Humor on
the trail—The Lighter Side of the Trail Experience—Humor
from
diaries
of emigrants who recorded it and (sometimes) recognized it.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.5, no. 3, summer 1987, pp 7-13
Migration
Trails—Idaho—Goodale’s
Cutoff—by Betty Burnett
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.3, no. 1, winter 1985, pp 30-34
Migraton
Trails—Independence,
Missouri—In the Beginning Independence
played a significant
role
to determining the route of the adventurers who sought the paradise
of California & Oregon.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.1, no. 1, July 1983, pp 36-37
Migration
Trails—Indians—The
Plains Indian—The
people white men & women found as they
moved
west—sometimes friend, sometimes enemy, sometimes nuisance,
always an enigma.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.7, no. 2, 1989, pp 24-32
Migration
Trails—John Mohler
Studebaker’s 1853 Overland
Journey from Indiana to
California—The
Studebaker Company manufactured wagons for the overland trails long
before
it
began manufacturing automobiles.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.8, no. 4, 1990, pp 12-19
Migration
Trails—Lassen
Trail—Peter Lassen and His trail
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
4, no. 1, winter 1986, pp 33-41
Migraton
Trails—Letter—Christian
Kauffman from Portland, Oregon Territory, 18 Nov 1852
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.3, no. 2,spring 1985, pp 22-23
Migration
Trails—Letter—The
1st Overland
Letter to California—A
never-before published
historical
document and the story behind it.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.11, no. 3, 1993, pp 21-32
Migration
Trails—Lone Elm &
Elm Grove Case: A study in mistaken
identity
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.11, no. 1, 1993, pp 24-31
Migration
Trails—Maps—Who
Was T. H. Jefferson—An
intriguing possibility about the identity
of
the creator of one of the West’s most important maps.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.8, no. 3, 1990, pp 2-8
Migration
Trails—Massacre—Anatomy
of a Massacre: Bloody Point, 1852—To
look into the
historical
literature surrounding the Bloody Point massacre is to see the entire
question of
white
versus Indian as well as white versus white in microcosm (also the
Modoc War)
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.7, no. 3, 1989, pp 2-25
Migration
Trails—Massacre—The
Bloody Point Archaeological Investigation
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.7, no. 3, 1989, pp 26-28
Migration
Trails—Medical
problems on the Overland Trails
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
6, no. 1, 1988, pp 25-33
Migration
Trails—Mexican
Gold Trail—Ho! For California
on the Mexican Gold Trail—
A
harrowing story of forty-niners traveling a route abut which little
has been written.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.11, no. 3, 1993, pp 2-15
Migration
Trails—Missionary
party—“You will commence a Pilgrimage…”
Instructions given
to
the 1838 W.E. Gray missionary party before it departed for the Oregon
Country.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.11, no. 3, 1993, pp 16-20
Migration
Trails—Missionary—Narcissa
Whitman & Friends: New York to Fort William
1836—A
detailed account of their historic trip across the continent.
(The
Whitman—Spalding Route from St. Louis to Fort Vancouver 1836.)
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.8, no. 1, 1990, pp 12-27
Migration
Trails—Missionary—Quaker
Colporteur—Abel Bond, Western Traveler—His
is
the
story of an eccentric, single-minded traveler: itinerant, often
destitute and dependent upon
others,
sometimes fortunate but always steadfast in his faith and persisten
in his cause.
“Overland Journal,”
vol.10, no. 1, 1992, pp 27-32
Migration
Trails—Mormon
Trail—Down-and Back Wagon
Trains: Travelers on the
Mormon
Trail in 1861, by William G. Hartley.
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
11, no. 4, winter 1993, pp 23-34
Migration
Trails—Murder—The
Miller-Tate Murder and the John F. Miller Grave
A
grisly murder on the trail in 1852, but is the murdered Miller the
man buried in the
John
F. Miller grave?
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.5, no. 4, fall 1987, pp 24-31
Migration
Trails—Music:
A Softer Pleasure Along the Oregon-California Trail
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
4, no. 2, spring 1986, pp 36-39
Migration
Trails—Music on
the Move: Instruments on the Western Frontier
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
5, no. 2, spring 1987, pp 27-34
Migration
Trails—Nebraska—a
description by Gilbert Cole in 1852 “Our
trail now lay along
the
uplands through the day, where we could see the long line of covered
wagons, sometimes
two
or three abreast, drawing itself in its windings like a huge white
snake across this great sea
of
rolling green. This line could be seen many miles to the front and
rear sos far that the major
portion
of it seemed to the observer to be motionless.
Migration
Trails—Nevada’s Fort
Churchill, by JoAnn Levy
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
4, no. 2, spring 1986, pp 16-19
Migration
Trails—Old Fort
Mitchell, Nebraska, revisited—A
fort “which would surely delight
the
heart of a movie producer.”
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.7, no. 2, 1989, pp 2-11
Migration
Trails—Old Oregon
Trail—Stricker’s Store,
by Ralph W. Macy
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
4, no. 2, spring 1986, pp 25-35
Migration
Trails—Omaha-Council
Bluffs area and the westward trails—
A
major jumping-off area for the overland trails.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.7, no. 4, 1989, pp 2-11
Migration
Trails—Orchard—The
Migrating Orchard (J.C.
Geer & Henderson Luelling brought
to
Oregon, apple, pear, cherry, prune, & grape)
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.3, no. 3, summer 1985, pp 22-27
Migration
Trails—Oregon-California Trail—Attack
on the Kelly-Larimer Wagon Train
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
5, no. 1, winter 1987, pp 16-40
Migration
Trails—Oregon
City—During the Emigration—Not
even Dr. John McLoughlin,
the
“White Eagle of the Columbia,” could stop the
Americanization of Oregon.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.2, no. 2, spring 1984, pp 4-8
Migration
Trails—Oregon
Trail Markings in Wyoming
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
4, no. 3, summer 1986, pp 19-31
Migration
Trails—Paddle
Wheels—Still They Come: Wagon
Wheels on Paddle Wheels to the
heads
of the Oregon-California Trail—The paddle wheels carried hoards
of emigrants, and
often
their wagons & livestock, up the Mississippi and Missouri rivers
to the trail heads.
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
6, no. 2, 1988, pp 2-11
Migration
Trails—Panama
Trail: The
Isthmus promised the shortest time to California
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
10, no. 3, 1992, pp 27-34
Migration
Trails—Paths, Trails, and Post Roads—from the Shenandoah
Valley to
Tennessee-Zigging
First to Southside
http://www.virginiaplaces.org/transportation/paths.html
Migration
Trails—Researching the trails of the Death
Valley Forty-Niners
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
6, no. 1, 1988, pp 13-24
Migration
Trails—River
Crossings—One
of the most dangerous & frustrating features of any of
the wagon train experience was
the constant necessity of crossing rivers, streams and creeks.
“Overland Journal,”
vol.9, no. 3, 1991, pp 14-24
Migration
Trails—River Town
Rivalry for the Overland
Trade—Competition
for the
outfitting trade.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.7, no. 2, 1989, pp 14-23
Migration
Trails - Routes from the East
Coast westward
“Keyhole,”
Vol. 35, No. 2, April 2006, Spring Issue, p 97
Migration
Trails—Sabbath
on the Overland Trail to California—To
travel on the Sabbath or not
to travel on the Sabbath?...a
question that arose frequently among emigrants.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.8, no. 4, 1990, pp 20-27
Migration
Trails—Sanitary
myth—Overland Travel, 1846-1853:
A Trip Through a
Junkyard Sewer—A
comparison of the sanitary myth of the emigration with the often
dirty truth.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.5, no. 4, fall 1987, pp 3-7
Migration
Trails—Scott’s
Bluff, Nebraska—Giant Landmark
of the Oregon-California Trails
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.3, no. 3, summer 1985, pp 4-21
Migration
Trails—Slate Creek
Cutoff—Variants of the Slate
Creek Cutoff
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.2, no. 3, summer 1984, pp 30-42
Migration
Trails—South
Platte “California Crossing”
(1866 account)
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.3, no. 1, winter 1985, pp 9-11
Migration
Trails—South
Platte/Colorado Cutoff of
the Oregon-California Trail—An
almost
forgotten
trail is remembered.
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
10, no. 3, 1992, pp 2-16
Migration
Trails—South
Platte “Trails & Fords above
the Junction of the North & South Platte “
A
field study of the Lower & Middle South Platte crossings to Ash
Hollow.
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
6, no. 2, 1988, pp 13-24
Migration
Trails—South
Platte Navy—A
curious “navy” on the Platte.
“Overland Journal,”
vol.8, no. 2, 1990, pp 15-24
Migration
Trails—Stars, Sun,
and Moon—Early Trail Explorers
had Stars in their Eyes.
Early
explorers used heavenly bodies to navigate in the western wilderness.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.8, no. 4, 1990, pp 28-34
Migration
Trails—The
First California Trail:
The Southern Route—by
Harlan Hague
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
5, no. 1, winter 1987, pp 41-50
Migration
Trails—The Old
Trail to Santa Fe, Part I--by Dr. Marc
Simmons
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
4, no. 2, spring 1986, pp 4-15
Migratin
Trails—The Old
Trail to Santa Fe, Part II
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
4, no. 3, summer 1986, pp 61-69
Migration
Trails—The Old
Trail to Santa Fe, Part III—by
Dr. Marc Simmons
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
4, no. 4, fall 1986, pp 65-77
Migration
Trails—Trail
Campground, history of—Lone Elm,
Kansas
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
4, no. 4, fall 1986, pp 42-53
Migration
Trails—Trail’s
End and Beyond—Reaching
the end of the trail was often the beginning
of
trials as great as those the emigrants experienced on their journey.
“We got to our Journes
end
but we then just began to realize our situation. Here we were 3,000
miles from our homes
and
relative, without money and without home, among strangers and in a
strange land. There
were
more tears shed than sleeping done that night.”
“Overland Journal,”
vol.10, no. 1, 1992, pp 15-26
Migration
Trails--Trails
used during
the Gold Rush—Georgraphy
of the California Trails—
Part
I— The Reveled Routes—Elevation, Plains and Mountains, by
Ricahrd L. Rieck. This is
the
first article in a trilogy describing several trails used during the
Gold Rush.
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
11, no. 4, winter 1993, pp 12-22
Migration
Trails—Truckee
Route—Profile
of emigrant pass between Mt. Judah & Mt. Lincoln,
Sierra Nevada, on Truckee River
Route—emigrant trail to California and how the wagons
were pulled to the pass.
“Overland Journal,”
vol. 4, no. 4, fall 1986, p 8
Migration
Trails—Truckee
Route—The Rediscovery of
Johnson’s Ranch
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
4, no. 1, winter 1986, pp 18-32
Migration
Trails—Truckee
Route—Trail of the 1st
wagons over the High Sierra
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
4, no. 1, winter 1986, pp 4-17
Migration
Trails—Truman
and the Trails—Harry
S. Truman, the 33rd
president of the United States,
was
a good friend to trail preservation.
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
6, no. 2, 1988, pp 25-29
Migration
Trails—Vermillion
Crossing—A
crossing mentioned in many diaries—The crossing was
a challenge for the emigrants
because the banks of the river were steep, and the river could
become a raging torrent after a
heavy rain upstream.
“Overland Journal,”
vol.9, no. 3, 1991, pp 26-32
Migration
Trails—Wagons—Wheels
in the West (The Overland Wagon)
“Overland Journal,”
vol.8, no. 4, 1990, pp 2-11
Migration
Trails—Wakarusa
River, Kansas—Oregon Trail Fords
of the Wakarusa River
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.8, no. 1, 1990, pp 2-10
Migration
Trails—Walker
River-Sonora Crossing—passage
through the Sierra to the
southern mines
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
6, no. 3, 1988, pp 10-28
Migration
Trails—Women
in the California Gold Rush—We were Forty-Niners, Too!
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
6, no. 3, 1988, pp 29-34
Migration
Trails—Women
on the Overland Trails
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.2, no. 1, winter 1984, pp 35-38
Migration
Trails—Women
on the Overland Trails
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
4, no. 4, fall 1986, pp 25-33
Migration
Trails—Women
and Indians on the trail 1845-1865, interaction between
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
4, no. 3, summer 1986, pp 13-18
Migration
Trails—Women’s
Travails & Triumphs on the Overland Trails—Some
new
perspectives on women on the
trail.
“Overland Journal,”
vol.9, no. 4, 1991, pp 28-36
Migraton
Trails—Wyoming—Devil’s
Gate
“Overland
Journal,” vol.
7, no. 1, 1989, pp 2-18
Migration
Trails—Wyoming—The
grave of Joel Hembree—Joel
Jasper Hembree,
born 2 March 1837 in Warren
County, Tennessee. He died 19 July 1843, the 1st
fatality
of the Great Migration of 1843.
“Overland
Journal,”
vol.3, no. 2, spring 1985, pp 6-16
See
also Wagon Trains, Gold Rush,
Cowboys, Ranchers and the Wild West ,
Western history & genealogy, Western Trails
Military—Academies—U.S.
Military & Naval Academies,
Cadet Records & Applications,
1805-1908 -- database on www.ancestry.com
Military
- Armistice Day - by Richard L. Hooverson
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 61, No. 6, Nov/Dec 2007, pp 10-11
M
Military
– Battle – 1791 – Battle of St. Clair
A
brief history of this battle and others in the war that ranged on
the American frontier “between the wars” are detailed in
Murtie June Clark’s American
Militia in the Frontier Wars, 1790-1796
(Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1990), The bulk of this
fine work is composed of regimental rosters of the men who served
the United States cause in these actions, including troops under the
command of General St. Clair. Happily, this book contains a
complete index, and the rosters show the men’s names and
ranks, and include notations of battle casualties which had a loss
of almost 900 men and 30 women.
The
United States National Archives has a microfilm publication that
contains records of enlisted men who served in Indian campaigns in
the Post-Revolutionary War period: M905, Compiled
Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served from 1784 to 1811.
This collection of service records is indexed by their microfilm
publication M694, Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer
Soldiers Who Served from 1784 to 1811.
The
National Archives also has custody of several sets of records that
are not yet available on microfilm, but must be searched onsite at
the Archives. These are filed under their Record Group 94, Records
of the Adjutant General’s Office.
These include muster rolls and enlistment papers for the period
after the Revolutionary War. Muster rolls are filed by regiment and
company, and then chronologically, so the soldier’s service
unit must be known ahead of time to sue them efficiently. They
usually give the man’s name and rank, and may include notes on
physical fitness, battle wounds, desertion or capture, etc. The
enlistment papers in Record Group 94 for 1784 to 1815 are arranged
alphabetically by the first letter of the surname. These give each
man’s name, date and place of enlistment, age occupation, a
physical description, and his regimental assignment.
Military
Bonus Files—At
least 26 states awarded bonuses to veterans of war, starting with the
Mexican
Border Conflict through to the Persian Gulf War. Each individual
veteran
usually
had to apply for the bonus and the process varied by state. The
applications may
be
difficult to find, but they are well worth the effort. Bonus records
may be housed at
the state archives, which is the
case in Pennsylvania, or kept at the state library. In other
states, custody of the records
stay with the office that created them, such as the state’s
Department of Veterans Affairs
or the state’s Adjutant General Office. Privacy policies
vary by state. Copies of some
records may be given only to the veteran, if living, or, if
deceased, his or her immediate
family.
Each state had its own way of
rewarding veterans. Some states, like West Virginia,
granted bonuses to veterans of
every conflicts up through the Gulf War. Pennsylvania
issued many awards as well and
has an excellent collection of both WWI & WWII
bonus records. Others awarded
bonuses only to WWII vets.
Applications may include the
veteran’s name and address, date and place of birth, pertinent
military data and the names and
addresses of beneficiaries, including spouse, children and
living parents. Some files even
contain photos of the veteran.
Military--
Calling Cards—Calling Cards in the Military Services by
Virginia Irene Walker
“Keyhole,”
vol. 37, no. 3, July 2008, summer issue, pp 109-110
Military
- Celebrating Our Glorious Fourth by Jean Chapman Snow - 1.
French & Indian and
(King)
Philip’s Wars, 2. Shays’ Rebellion in Massachusetts &
other uprisings. 3. War
of
1812, 4. Spanish American War 1898.
“The
Searcher” Vol.
43, No. 3, Summer 2006, pp 138-140
Military
– Cemeteries – Foreign burial sites – American
Battle Monuments Commission
www.abmc.gov/home.php
Military--Cemeteries--Grave
Markers—Military abbreviations found on U.S. grave markers
http://genealogy.about.com/od/military_records/a/abbreviations.htm
Military
- Cemeteries - Military Cemeteries & Burials - by Donna Potter
Phillips
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 62, No. 2, Mar/Apr 2008, pp 50-51
Military
Checklist Form—Military records check list
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/upload/images/pdf/military.pdf
Military
Checklist Form--(Reference
desk has genealogy forms available for you to copy)
Military
– Dog Tags – Donna Potter Phillips looks at the evolution
of soldiers’ identification
“Family
Chronicle,”
Vol. 13, No. 4, March/April, pp 50-51
Military—Enlistment—U.S.
Regular Army Registers of Enlistment & enlistment papters,
1798-1914 by Claire
Prechtel-Kluskens & Jo Ann Williamson—research should begin
with NARA
“NGS Magazine,”
vol. 35, no. 4, Oct-Dec 2009, pp 40-44
Military—Enlistment—The
Buffalo Barracks -- U.S. Army Soldiers Enlistment Registers at
Fort Niagara 1837-1846. Federal Troops on the Niagara
Frontier --
http://www.buffalonet.org/army/
Military
- German - Evidence of
the 30-year War - by
Jean Nepsund
“German-American
Genealogy” Fall 2005, p 13
Military--
Jews in the Russian Army and surname brick walls—by Bonnie
Sachritz Copeland
“The
Searcher,” vol.
45, no. 4, Autumn 2008, pp 200-201
Military—Medal
of Honor recipients at www.history.army.mil/moh.html
Military
– Militia - What was the Militia? David A. Norris examines a
resource that can be a
goldmine
of information.
“Family
Chronicle,”
Vol. 13, No. 1, Sep/Oct 2008, pp 6-10
Military
- Museums - Military Museums by Donna Potter Phillips
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 61, No. 6, Nov/Dec 2007, pp 72-74
Military
– Music of your Ancestors – David A. Norris waxes lyrical
on the joys of discovering
one’s
musical genealogy. We can’t have a war without music
“Family
Chronicle,”
Vol. 13, No. 4, March/April, pp 6-10
Military
- Naval Academy Records online at WorldVitalRecords.com (subscription
site)
Naval
Academy - Lucky Bag Yearbooks
Military
– Oral History Database, Virginia Military Institute Archives,
covers from WWII to
those
currently serving
http://www1.vmi.edu/archivecoldwar/
Military—Patriotism
was aline and well in 1917. Spirit
of a Soldier boy was written by Vernon Ford
of
New Eagle, PA. About 1 year later, Vernon died in France from wounds
received in WWI
“Keyhole,”
vol. 37, no. 3, July 2008, summer issue, pp 111-115
Military
– Pennsylvania State Archives searchable military index
database
www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/
Military - Prisoner of War - 1600's
England transported prisoners across the ocean to another continent
in story of William (McIn) Tosh a Forced American by Beverly Smith
Vorpahl
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 61, issue VI, Nov/Dec 2007, pp 16-21
Military Records - Basic Training: Proving an ancestor’s
military service is a matter of following orders - by Maureen A.
Taylor
“Family
Tree Magazine”
Vol. 8, Issue 2, May 2007, pp 70-71
Military
Records – Bounty Land Warrants see Bounty Land
Military
Records-- Fold3--
$
--Formerly known as Footnote.com.
Ancestry.com, which
acquired
the
site along with its parent company, iArchives, has rebranded it with
the the new name and a
new
focus on military-related content.
Historical military records have
always been one of the sit’s strengths. The name Fold3
refers to
the third fold of a flag in a
traditional flag-folding ceremony, which is said to represent the
sacrifice of military veterans.
Military records currently on Fold3
come from the
Revolutionary War, War of 1812,
Civil War, WWI, WWII, Vietnam War and others.
Footnote.com’s nonmilitary
records, such as city directories, naturalization documents, the
Pennsylvania Archives collection
and more, will remain on Fold3.
These nonmilitary records
will be in an “other
Collections” category.
www.fold3.com
Military
Records - Federal Military Records: Essential and Easy to Obtain
“Forum”
FGS quarterly, Spring, Volume 17, Number 1, pp 5-7
Military Records - Gravesite Locator - The US Department
of Veterans Affairs’ Nationwide Gravesite Locator by David
Norris - looks at important website for military ancestors.
“Internet
Genealogy,”
Vol. 2, No. 2, June/July 2007, pp 28-29
Military
Records - Merchant Marines by Emily Anne Croom
“Family
Tree Magazine,”
Vol. 7, Issue 2, April 2006, p 66
Military
Records—Old Soldiers’ &
Sailors’ Home Residents
(1887-1916)—Illinois State
Archives
www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/quincyhome.html
Military Recirds—Old Soldiers” &
Sailors” Home Residents – National Association of State
Veterans Homes.
http://www.nasvh.org/dir_statehomes/statedir.cfm
Military Records - Old Soldiers
Homes - Donna Murray reveals what you can
find online about Old Soldiers Homes
“Internet
Genealogy,”
Vol. 2, No. 5, December/January 2008, pp 20-21
Military
Records—Online Records—search out military records on the
web by Rick Crume
“Family
Tree Magazine,”
vol.9, issue 6, November 2008, pp 48-53
Military Records - Other Military Data Available for
Genealogists than Service and Pension Records - by Curt Witcher
“Forum”
FGS quarterly, Fall, Volume 17, Number 3, pp 24-25
Military
Records—Pensions—Pension
files usually contain valuable information, such as proof of
marriage
and birth of children, as opposed to military records which show
where a soldier
served and other details of his
military life. Widows of men who served were often eligible
to receive benefits, so that
avenue should also be explored. Revolutionary War & Civil War
pensions are available from the
National Archives to anyone who requests them and pays the
fee. See
www.archives.gov/research/military/index.html
Federal pension files for Confederate
soldiers are almost
non-existent. They were not authorized to receive benefits until
1959, which
was a little late for most of
them. Some states did award pensions. Those records are kept in
each state’s archives.
Military Records - Pensions
- Finding Confederate Pension Papers
- David A. Norris looks at a great Civil War genealogy resource.
“Internet
Genealogy,”
Vol. 3, No. 1, April/May 2008, pp 31-35
Military Records - Pensions -
Discovering Billy Talley’s Revolutionary
War Service - by John E. Ernest
“Forum”
FGS quarterly, Fall 2002, Volume 14, Number 3, pp 1, 15-21
Military
Records—Pensions—Southern
Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements &
Rosters
http://southerncampaign.org/pen/
Military Records—Pensions—Exploring
Civil War Widow
Pensions—Cindy Thomson looks
at a great genealogical resource for tracing your Civil
War ancestor.
“Family Chronicle,”
vol. 15, no. 5, May/June 2011, pp 31-32
Military
Records—Pensions
– Pension project USGenWeb
http://usgwarchives.net/pensions/
Military Records - Pensions -
Revolutionary War pension files—an
introduction - by Claire Prechtel-Kluskens (Indexes) Why did the
National Archives microfilm the Revolutionary
War pensions twice?
“NGS
NewsMagazine” Vol.
32, No. 2, Apr/May/Jun, pp 34-37
Military Records - Pensions -
Revolutionary War -
The Pension Roll of 1835:
The Indexed Edition in Four Volumes: United States War Department
www.genealogical.com
Book Review by
Genealogical.com -
the home page of Genealogical Publishing Company, Clearfield Company,
and Gateway Press.
The Pension Roll of 1835
is the most
complete roll of Revolutionary
War pensioners ever
published. Compiled by the War Department under Senate resolutions of
1834-35 from lists of pensioners who had been enrolled under all
previous acts of Congress, as well as from replacement records for
those lists of pensioners which had been destroyed in fires at the
War Department in 1801 and 1814, it contains the names and service
records of approximately 60,700 soldiers, both regulars and militia.
Information given for each soldier, in tabular form, generally
includes rank, annual allowance, sums received, description of
service, date when placed on the pension roll, age, and date of death
or date of the law under which the pension was granted. Also included
in some instances are statements giving the names of family members.
4 vols. 3,183 pp. in all; Published: 1835, 1968, Reprinted: 2002
Price:
$225.00, ISBN: 0806313277
Military Records - Pension
information in Congressional Records -
Veterans and private claims, by John P. Deeben
“NGS
NewsMagazine”
Vol. 32, No. 4, Oct/Nov/Dec 2006, pp 33-37
Military
Records - Preserving Your Wartime Letters -
Visit http://www.warletters.com/
‘LAWGS
News” Vol. 24, Issue 8 (of 10), September 2005, pp 5, 7
Military
Records – Rebellious Ancestors, Finding the – According
to David A. Norris, records of
rebellion
can be a boon to your research. 1. Rebellions in the British Isle
2.
Colonial Rebellions 3. Post-Revolutionary Rebellions 4.
Whiskey Rebellion
5.
Bear Flag Revolt
“Family
Chronicle,”
Vol. 13, No. 5, May/June 2009, pp 41-45
Military Records - Research Techniques - My Favorite
Sources - Donna Potter Phillips shares her personal experiences with
a variety of record types.
“Family
Chronicle” November/December
2003, pp 17-20
Military Records - Twentieth century Navy & Marine
Corps records - by Ilene Kanfer Murray - “NGS
NewsMagazine” Oct/Nov/Dec 2005, pp 45-47
Military—War
Bonuses—see Military Bonus Files
Military
- War Letters - War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from
American Wars
“Family
Tree Magazine”
Vol. 8, Issue 1, February 2007, p 16
Military--Patriot
War of 1837-1838,
by Joyce Mason –those who died and those who survived.
“Tree
Talks,” vol. 40, no. 3, September 2000, pp 129-137
Military
- Veterans - Facts
about Veterans Affairs National Cemeteries
http://www1.va.gov/opa/fact/ncafacts.asp
Mi Military - Veterans
- Gravesite Locator -
The US Department of Veterans Affairs’ Nationwide
Gravesite Locator - David Norris looks to an important website for
our military ancestors
“Internet
Genealogy,”
Vol. 2, No. 2, June/July 2007, pp 28-29
Military
- Veterans - Graveside
Locator - http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/servlet/NGL_v1
Military
– Veterans
Gravesites –
Start
with the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Nationwide Gravesite
Locator
http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov
which includes national & state cemeteries
Visit
www.cem.va.gov/cem/scg/lsvc.asp
for a list of all state veterans’ cemeteries.
Also
try the National Archives & Records Administration (NARA)
www.archives.gov/ which has
military pension files from 1775-1916. The files include supporting
documents such as marriage & death certificates, survivors’
affidavits and other valuable documentation.
You
can view Revolutionary War pensions on microfilm at
HeritageQuestOnline www.heritagequestonline.com/
You
can view Revolutionary War pensions on www.footnote.com/
($69.95 a year)
You
can order Civil War pensions from NAEA www.archives.gov/
Also
try Family History Library (FHL) www.familysearch.org
and look at microfilmed Burial Records for Military Posts, Camps,
and Stations 1768-1921 (most of these records occurred between
1860-1890)
Civil
War veterans try The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
maintained at the National Graves Registration Project
www.suvcsdb.org/home .
The Sons of Confederate Veterans offers genealogy assistance and a
grave registry at www.scv.org/graves
Request
the microfilmed Card Records of Headstones Provided for Deceased
Civil War Veterans, 1879-1903 from you local FHC.
Another
source would be the county historical or genealogical societies
Churches
may have cemetery records, and funeral homes often keep data for
county cemeteries. Check there, and ask local “old
timers”—they may recall an unmarked grave that has
deteriorated.
American
Military History Timeline
American Involvement in wars
from Colonial Times to the
Present
Military—1775-1783—American
Revolution—English Colinists vs Great
Britain
Military—Revolution
War (American)—Dig deeper into less
well known Revolution War
Records.
“NGS
Magazine,” vol.
35, no. 2, April/June 2009, pp 52-55
Military—Revolution
War (American)—Disease was rampant and
would greatly influence the
outcome
of the Revolutionary War
“NGS
Newsmagazine ,”
vol. 28, no. 4, July/August 2002, pp 210-212
Military
- Revolution War (American)
- Soldiers & Their Descendants
www.rootsweb.com/~ars/
Military
- Revolution War (American)
- Spy Letters
www.si.umich.rdu/spies/
Military - Revolutionary War -
A Minor Battle of the Revolutionary War -
by Jean Chapman Snow –
“The
Searcher” So. Cal Gen newsletter -
May/Jun 2003, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp 132-134
Military - Revolutionary War -
Lineage Societies - Revolutionary War Era
Lineage Societies by
Donna Potter Phillips (DAR, SAR, Loyalists, Nat’l Soc Daughters
of Founders and Patriots of America)
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 60, No. 6, Nov/Dec 2006 pp 81-86
Military - Revolutionary War
(America) - Loyalist -
Book Review - The History and Master Roll of the King’s Royal
Regiment of New York, Revised Edition - by Brigadier General Ernest
A. Cruikshank and Gavin K. Watt
“FGS
Forum,” Vol.
18, No 3, Fall 2006, pp 33-34
Military - Revolutionary War
(America) - Loyalist
- All the King’s Men, Donna Potter Phillips shares the
experience of Loyalists during
the American Revolution
“Family
Chronicle,”
Vol.11, No. 6, July/August 2007, pp 17-20
Military
– Revolutionary War
(America) _ Loyalist –
Canada Remembers the Arrival of
American
Loyalists in 1783 by Elizabeth LaPointe
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,” Vol. 62, Issue
VI, Nov/Dec 2008, pp 42-46
Military
- Revolutionary War (America)
- Loyalist Muster
Rolls
There were some American colonists who remained loyal to
the notion of America as a British colony and many of these
“loyalists” (also referred to as “United Empire
Loyalists”) served in units fighting against the forces of the
new American nation.
The
following are just some of the loyalist regiments
1.
DeLancey’s Brigade
2.
Governor Wentworth’s Volunteers
3.
King’s Orange Rangers
4.
Guides and Pioneers
5.
Roman Catholic Volunteers
6.
New Jersey Volunteers
7.
Pennsylvania Loyalists
The collection of muster rolls
for about 3 dozen loyalists regiments covering the period of
1777-1783 are found in the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa and
microfilm copies of the rolls are available at the Family History
Library in Salt Lake City and through its associated Family History
Centers (on microfilm rolls 928,940 through 928,947)
Presumably, some of the
loyalists were deserters to the American side and some prisoners of
the Americans later served the American cause, making their
descendants eligible to join lineage societies based on both sides of
the Revolutionary War.
These muster rolls are arranged
by regiment, then chronologically and give the name and rank of each
soldier. Sometimes, the date and place of recruitment is given, or
the amount paid.
If a soldier was wounded or
killed, the date and place is given. The same is true for those
missing in action or captured by the enemy, or for those who
deserted. The percentage of men who were captured or who deserted
was extremely high (as much as 25-30%).
Military - Revolutionary
War (America) -
Loyalist
(Tories, Kings men, Royalists) Musings Gleanings by Richard L.
Hooverson
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 62, No. 1, Jan/Feb 2008, pp 12-13
Military - Revolutionary War
(America) -
Pensions - Pondering
Pensions: Discovering Billey Talley’s Revolutionary War Service
by John E. Ernest, Genealogist, Sons of the American Revolution
(Seattle Chapter)
“FGS
Forum” Vol. 14, No. 3, Fall 2002, pp 1, 15-21
Military
– Revolutionary
War (America) –
Pensions
– Index of Revolutionary War pension applications
completed from pension and
bounty land records of the Veterans’ Administration Archives in
the National Archives – National Genealogical Society Call
# R 929.373 NAT v.1-2
Book
is part of the Pomona
City Library genealogical
collection
Military
- Revolutionary War
(America) -
Pension Files and
Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files
(M804)
This collection is taken from
NARA microfilm publication M804, which includes an estimated 80,000
pension and bounty-land warrant application files based on the
participation of American military, naval, and marine officers and
enlisted men in the Revolutionary War. Most of the records in the
files are dated between 1800 and 1900. The files are part of Record
Group 15, Records of the Veterans Administration.
The records in this collection
include entire pension files for soldiers and sailors who served in
the Revolutionary War. Unlike selected service records, which were
typically chosen subjectively for genealogical content, these records
reveal more details about each veteran's history and service, as well
as more information about his family, state of health, and life after
the war.
If you know the state for which a
man served, you can locate him through the alphabetical hierarchy in
the browse menu. Select the state, the first letter of his last name,
and then locate his surname, followed by his given name in the next
section of browse titles.
Footnote
has scanned the full microfilm record for each soldier's file.
Military - Revolutionary
War (America) _
Pension files -
available online through the subscription sites www.ancestry.com
and www.heritagequestonline.com
“Internet
Genealogy,”
Vol. 3, No. 1, April/May 2008 - p 42
Military - Revolutionary
War (America) Records
Online - Rick Crume goes online in search of information on
Revolutionary War soldiers
“Family
Chronicle,”
Vol. 11, No. 4, March/April 2007, pp 23-28
Military - Revolution
War (America) Spain’s
Involvement in the American Revolutionary War by Judge Edward F.
Butler, Sr.
“NGS
Newsmagazine,”
Vol. 28, No. 2, Mar/Apr 2002, pp 122-125
Military - Revolution
War (America) Spain’s
Involvement in the American Revolutionary War, Part II by Judge
Edward F. Butler, Sr.
“NGS
Newsmagazine,”
Vol. 28, No. 5, Sept/Oct 2002, pp 304-307
Military—1812-1815—War
of 1812—United States vs Great
Britain
U.S.
casualties: 20,000 deaths, 4,505 wounded in action
Military—War
of 1812—The Ware of 1812: An Introduction, David A. Norris
gives a basic
overview
to the genealogical records of the “forgotten war.”
“Family
Chronicle,”
Vol. 16, No. 3, Jan/Feb 2012, pp 13-16
Military
- War of 1812, -
Discharge Certificates by Claire Prechtel-Kluskens
“NGS
NewsMagazine” Vol. 31, No. 3, Jul/Aug/Sep 2005, pp 32-34
Military - War of 1812,
- Book Review - American Prisoners of War Held
at Halifax During the War of 1812 - Harrison
Scott Baker; (2004), 2005, 8½x11, paper, 2 vols.,Vol I, 289
pp., Vol. II, 577 pp., $63.00, ISBN: 0788433237
Review by Heritage Books, Inc.,
This work was transcribed from records of the British Admiralty
pertaining to American prisoners of war held at Halifax, Nova Scotia,
from June 1812 to April 1815. The internment facility was on the
Northwest Arm of Halifax Harbor. The unmarked graves of 195 who died
as prisoners are located there. Those interned included American
merchantmen, sailors from the United States Navy, United States
Marines serving on naval ships, and men from the United States Army
captured in Canada. The names of those interned at Halifax include
crew members from the frigate USS Chesapeake, sister ship to the USS
Constitution, "Old Ironsides." In addition to the
alphabetical listing by surname, the book includes a numerical list,
by prison number, of all names; and a listing by ship or regiment in
which the prisoners served. Mr. Baker is a lineal descendant of a
veteran of the War of 1812 and past president of the Society of the
War of 1812 in the State of Ohio (1996-1999).
Military
– War of 1812 –
Ohio Rosters online, Tony Brandy shows you how to find Ohio’s
veterans
of 1812
“Family
Chronicle,”
Vol. 13, No. 5, May/June 2009, pp 50-51
Military—War
of 1812—Service records relating to the
War of 1812, by James Dent Walker
“Tree
Talk,” vol. 33,
no. 3, Sept 1993, pp 131-138
Military—War
of 1812—War of 1812 records at the
National Archives
“NGS
Magazine,” vol.
35, no. 2, April/June 2009, pp 24-29
Military—1846-1848—Mexican-American
War—United States vs. Mexico
(also
called “Mr. Polk’s War”)
U.S.
casualties: 13,271 deaths (many from disease), 4,152 wounded in
action
Military
Records—Bounty-Land—The
Mexican-American War was the last war for which bounty-
land
was authorized.
Under
an Act of 1847, enlisted men were promised 160 acres for one year of
service, or
40 acres for less than a year,
or $100, pr $25, in scrip at six percent interest. No land was
available to officers. No
Military bounty-land reserves were created. Warrants were
redeemable at GLO local land
offices. Warrants were issued in folios with imprints usable
for recording subsequent
assignments. Bounty-land warrants could be sold, traded, or
exchanged for scrip before a
patent was abtained. Following the war, the acts of 1850, 1852,
1855 affected veterans of all
previous wars. These records are in the National Archives and
are unindexed. To research them
by mail, use National Archives Trust Fund, form 80.
Military Records - Mexican
War - Finding Your
Mexican War Ancestor
- David A. Norris describes the surprisingly rich resources available
to genealogists
“Family
Chronicle” May/June
2006, pp 11-16
Military
Records—Patriotic societies are the Aztec
Club, founded
in 1847,and the Descendants
of
Mexican
War Veterans, P.O.
Box 830482, Richardson TX 75083, which was founded in 1989.
Research
collections are at the U.S. Army Institute of Military History,
Carlisle Barracks,
Pennsylvania,
and the Jenkins Garrett Library, University of Texas-Arlington,
Arlington, Texas.
Military
Records—References
Norman
E. Tutrow, The
Mexican-American War: An Annotated Bibliography, 1981
Francis
B. Heitman, Historical
Register and Dictionary of the Unite States Army…1789-1903, 2
vols., reprinted 1965.
Clarence
S. Peterson, Known
Military Dead During the Mexican War, 1846-1848.
National
Archives microfilms of interest are:
For
Regulars – M233, Registers
of Enlistments in the United States Army,
1789-1914 (81 rolls, particularly rolls 21, 22, 23)
For
volunteers – M616, Index
to Compiled Service Records of Volunteers Who served During the
Mexican War, 41
rolls, a general index.
There
are no separate state indexes. Of the states that provided units,
only four, plus the Mormon units, have complited service records on
microfilm. They are:
Mississippi—M863,
9 rolls
Pennsylvania—M1028,
13 rolls
Tennessee—M638,
15 rolls
Texas—M278,
19 rolls
Mormon
organizations—M351, 3 rolls
These
are also available on Family History Library and AGLL microfilms.
National
Archives Pension records cover service from 1817-1898. Some Mexican
War volunteers served in earlier Indian wars or later served in the
Civil War, and may be part of the “Old Wars” series—see
T316, Old War Index to Pension Records, 1815-1926, 7 rolls; or
Virgil D. White, Index to Old War Pension Files, 1815-1926, 2 vol.,
1987, a standard reference based on T316.
The
Act of 1887 authorized an $8.00 pension for Mexican War veterans and
their unremarried widows. The veteran must have had 60 days
service, be at least 62 years of age, and be disabled or dependent.
Most applicatons were submitted in 1887-1888, but they were accepted
until 1926: see T317, Index to Mexican War Pension Records,
1887-1926, 14 rolls; T1196, Selected Pension Application Files for
Members of the Mormon Battalion, Mexican War, 1846-1848; or Navena
H. Troxel & Susan M. Miller, Mexican War Index to Pension Files,
1886-1926, 10 vol., 1986-1992; or Virgil D. White, Index to Mexican
War Pension Files, 1989; or Barbara S. Wolfe, An Index to Mexican
War Pension Applications, 1985.
-
Military—1861-1865—U.S.
Civil War—Union vs. Confederacy
Military—Civil
War—dates of the War 12 April 1861-9
April 1865 (last shot ended June 1865)
Military
- Civil War - American
Civil War Research
Database www.civilwardata.com
Family
Tree Magazine, Vol.8,
Issue 5, November 2007, pp 26-32
Military—Civil
War-- Andersonville—Atrocity
at Andersonville—Andersonville Prison Camp
(Camp Sumter), Georgia was a
military stockade of the Confederate Army during the American
Civil War. The prison opened in
February of 1864 and was built to house 10,000 prisoners, but
by June 1864, 26,000 men were
imprisoned in this stockade.
A young Yankee prisoner, Dorence
Atwater, had been assigned duty
to the Confederate doctor. His
job was to record the deaths that occurred in the hospital.
He also accompanied the burial
detail to the cemetery. He made every effort to obtain & record
the names of all deceased
prisoner. He hid the rolls in his clothing or his knapsack.
In the following journals (ask
at the reference desk for the issues) are listing of the names he
recorded secreatly and revealed
at the end of the war.
Party I—“Tree Talks,”
vol. 40, no. 1, March 2000, pages 3-9
Insert for page omitted from March issue is between
March & June issue.
Part II--“Tree Talks,”
vol. 40, no. 2, June 2000, pages 67-75
Military—Civil
War—Band Music from the Civil
War Era
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwmhtml/cwmhome.html
Military—Civil
War—Canadian McCargar in the Civil
War—by Dennis McCargar
“The
Searcher,” vol.
45, no. 4, Autumn 2008, pp 202-205
Military
- Civil War - Indexes, Records & Rosters -
Soldiers & Sailors system
http://www.militaryindexes.com/civilwar/
Military - Civil War
- Civil War Rosters - The creators of this site call it “the
most complete list of Civil War roster links on the Web”–and
that’s no exaggeration. Categorized by state and then unit,
Civil War Rosters links to virtually every online muster roll.
http://www.geocities.com/area51/lair/3680/cw/cw.html
Military
- Civil War - Civil
War Mysteries www.civilwarmysteries.com
“Family
Chronicle” November/December
2006, p 52-53
Military—Civil
War—Confederate—Confederate
civilian records
“NGS
NewsMagazine,”
vol. 33, no. 4, Oct-Dec 2007, pp 32-35
Military—Civil
War—Confederate—Documenting
the forgotten dead: Confederate
death
and burial records , by John P. Deeben
“NGS Magazine,”
vol 36, no. 3, July-Sep 2010, pp 42-48
Military—Civil
War—Confederate—Records
of Confederate Veterans, South Carolina
http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/
Military—Civil
War—Confederate—Resources
for Researching the Confederate
States Navy
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
vol. 53, mo. 6, Nov/Dec 1999 pp 12-14
Military—Civil
War—Confederate—Reminiscences of
a Confederate Soldier
of Co. C. 2nd Va.
Cavalry
by R. H. Peck, Fincastle, Va. Chapter I
“Virginia
Appalachian Notes,”
vol. 32, no. 4, Fall 2008, pp 159-189
Military—Civil
War—Confederate—Reminiscences of
a Confederate Soldier,
Chapter III—
Memoir
of Rufus H. Peck of
Fincastle, Virginia
“Virginia
Appalachian Notes,”
vol. 33, no. 1, Winter 2009, pp 8-31
Military
- Civil War -
Confederate research
sources a guide to archive collections by
James C. Neagles
location
- Genealogy section Pomona
Library - R
929.373 NEA
Military - Civil War
- The Confederacy: a
guide to the archives of the Government of the Confederate
States of America / Henry Putney Beers.
location
- Genealogy section Pomona
Library -
R 016.973 BEE
Military—Civil
War—Engineers—Researching
Civil War Engineers—Jean Wilcox Hibben,
PhD,
MA, CG, looks at the men behind (and in front of) the soldiers.
“Family
Chronicle,”
vol. 15, no. 5, May/June 2011, pp 33-37
Military—Civil
War—Homepage
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb/html
Military - Civil War -
A House Divided - Tracing your Civil War
ancestor – Union or Confederate –
won’t be a struggle if you march through these 9 research steps
by David A. Fryxell
“Family
Tree Magazine” Vol. 8, No. 3, July 2007 pp 14-21
Military
– Civil War –
Finding Elusive
Civil War Ancestors!
David A. Norris shows you how
to
track down hard to find Civil War
veterans.
“Internet
Genealogy,”
Vol. 3, No. 5, Dec 2008/January 2009, pp 26-30
Military
- Civil War - Finding
1861-1969 Names of Residents & Civil War
Soldiers–Part One
Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,
Vol. 60, No. 5, Sept/Oct 2006, pp 33-46
Military - Civil War -
Finding 1861-1869 Names of Residents & Civil
War Soldiers - Part Two
- Alabama through the
District of Columbia,
by William Dollarhide
Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,
Vol. 60 No. 6, Nov/Dec 2006 pp 29-44
Military - Civil War -
Finding 1861-1869 Names of Residents & Civil
War Soldiers - Part 3 Florida
through Illinois, by
William Dollarhide
Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,
Vol. 61, No. 1, Jan/Feb 2007, pp 26-36
Military - Civil War -
Finding 1861-1869 Names of Residents & Civil
War Soldiers - Part 4
- Indiana through
Kentucky, by William
Dollarhide
Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,
Vol. 61, No. 3, May/June 2007, pp 20-33
Military
- Civil War - Finding
1861-1869 Names of Residents & Civil War
Soldiers - Part 5
Louisiana,
Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts
& Michigan, by
William Dollarhide
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 61, No. 4, July/August 2007, pp 26-39
Military
- Civil War - Finding
1861-1869 Names of Residents & Civil War
Soldiers—Part 6
Minnesota,
Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska & Nevada
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
vol. 61, no. 5, Sep/Oct 2007, pp 36-48
Military
- Civil War - Finding
1861-1869 Names of Residents & Civil War
Soldiers – Part 7
New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York,
by William Dollarhide
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
vol. 61, no. 6, Nov/Dec 2007, pp 40-52
Military
- Civil War - Finding
1861-1869 Names of Residents & Civil War
Soldiers - Part 8
North
Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Oregon by
William Dollarhide
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 62, No. 1, Jan/Feb 2008, pp 30-44
Military - Civil War -
Finding 1861-1869 Names of Residents & Civil
War Soldiers - Part 9
- Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina,
and South Dakota, by William Dollarhide
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 62, No. 2, Mar/Apr 2008, pp 32-46
Military
- Civil War - Finding
1861-1869 Names of Residents & Civil War
Soldiers - Part 10
-
Tennessee,
Texas, Utah, and Vermont by William
Dollarhide
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 62, No. 3, May/June 2008, pp 38-50
Military
– Civil War –
Finding 1861-1869 Names of Residents & Civil
War Soldier – Part 11
Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin &
Wyoming
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper”,
Vol. 62, No. 4, Jul/Aug 2008, pp 34-51
Military—Civil
War—Genealogical Resources, Alabama to Nebraska
“Internet
Genealogy,”
vol. 5, no. 6, February/March 2011, pp 16-20
Military—Civil
War—Gettysburg—Visiting
Gettysburg for Genealogy—David A. Norris
looks at the resources available for researching the
Civil War’s most famous site.
“Family Chronicle,”
vol. 15, no. 5, May/June 2011, pp 24-26
Military—Civil
War—Last Sons of the Civil
War—veterans
“Family
Chronicle,”
vol. 14, no. 4, March/April 2010, pp 6-7
Military - Civil War
- Legacy of German
survivors of the US Civil War
- Edwin M. Knights, explains how German immigrants joined the
American Civil War
“Family
Chronicle,”
Vol.12, No. 1, Sept/Oct 2007, pp 13-16
Military—Civil
War—Letter from an African American in
the Confederate Service, Dear
“Master
David.” A letter written during a Civil
War siege by an enslaved man paints an
intriguing
picture of one African American’s role supporting his master’s
sons as they
fought
for the Confederacy.
“NSG
Quarterly,”
vol. 96, no. 3, Sept 2008, pp 223-232
Military—Civil War—Muster
Cards—uncovering clues in historic muster cards
“Family
Tree Magazine,”
vol. 12, issue 4, July 2011, pp 66-67
Military - Civil War -
A Delightful Detour – Seth Reid, a Diary and the Civil
War in Texas by Thomas S. Fiske
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 60, No. 5, Sept/Oct 2006, pp 15-19
Military - Civil War - A
Civil War descendant’s
dilemma Which side did Grandpa Fight on? By Chuck Mason, CG
“NGS
NewsMagazine” Vol.
32, No. 2, Apr/May/Jun, pp 52-54
Military
- Civil War - Civilian
employees of the Quartermaster General’s
Office.
There are records of the
civilian employees of the Quartermaster General’s Office, but
most are not on microfilm and must be consulted personally in the
nation’s capital (record Group 92). These records are filed
chronologically, then by the names or numbers of the local
quartermasters. These reports tend to give the name of the employee,
when and where he worked and what he was paid. Another record found
in Record Group 92 would be the applications for employment received
by the Quartermaster General. These are not fully indexed either.
The “applications” range from simple letters seeking jobs
to complex files with multiple pages containing requests,
recommendations, oaths of allegiance and so forth.
Military
- Civil War - Civilian
disaster - The Allegheny Arsenal - Greatest Civilian Disaster of the
war
“Keyhole,”
Vol. 35, No. 4, Oct 2006, Fall Issue, p 162
Military
- Civil War - New York
State Civil War Soldier Database
http://iarchives.nysed.gov/CivilWarWeb/search.jsp
Military - Civil War -
Book Review - Phantom Pain: North Carolina’s Artificial-Limbs
Program for Confederate Veterans. Including an Index to Records in
the North Carolina State Achieves Related to Artificial Limbs for
Confederate Veterans. By Ansley Herring Wegner
“FGS
Forum,” Vol.
18, No 3, fall 2006, p 35
Military
- Civil War - Book
Review - 91st Ohio
Volunteer Infantry by Lois J. Lambert
“FGS
Forum,” Vol.
18, No 3, Fall 2006, p 34
Military - Civil War
- Death & casualties - During the Civil War our ancestors
had to deal with a mind-numbing level of carnage. Two and One-half
million went to war and 620,000 did not return. The losses in single
battles were staggering on both sides. At Antietam there were 22,694
casualties, including 3,654 killed & 17,250 wounded; at
Fredericksburg there were 19,044 casualties, including 1,887 dead; at
Chancellorsville over 29,800 casualties; at Gettysburg about 43,500
casualties and 6,000 dead; and at the Wilderness there were 25,800
casualties. There were 10,000 battles and skirmishes during that
terrible war and the list could go on and on.
Military—Civil
War—Documenting death in the Civil War
with Union War Dept records
“NGS
Magazine,” vol
36, no. 1, Jan-Mar 2010, pp 31-37
Military
- Civil War - Grand
Review - Musings Gleanings by Richard L. Hooverson
Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,
Vol. 61, issue VI, Nov/Dec 2007, pp 14-15
Military—Civil
War—History— www.civilwar.com
Tap
this site’s wealth of battle maps, detailed timeline, photos
and searchable text of the
Official
Record, the account of the Civil War from the commanders on the
ground.
Military
- Civil War - Navy’s
First Submarine - USS Alligator crewmen by Alice Smith
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 62, No. 1, Jan/Feb 2008, pp 64-65
Military - Civil War
- Pension Index -
www.footnote.com
- a subscription service is creating an online index of Civil War
pension files for both
Union & Confederate Veterans
“Internet
Genealogy,”
Vol. 3, No. 1, April/May 2008 - p 42
Military—Civil
War--Pensions—Exploring
Civil War Widow
Pensions—Cindy Thomson
looks at a great genealogical resource for tracing your
Civil War ancestor.
“Family Chronicle,”
vol. 15, no. 5, May/June 2011, pp 31-32
Military –Civil
War--Pensions
- Finding Confederate Pension Papers
- David A. Norris
looks at a great Civil War genealogy resource.
“Internet
Genealogy,” Vol. 3, No. 1, April/May
2008, pp 31-35
Military—Civil
War—Prisoner of War—How
to learn more about a Civil War ancestor who was a
prisoner
of War? You can view Confederate records and a few Union records
online at the
subscription
sit “Footnote.com” Prisoner of war records are
available in 145 rolls of microfilm
from
the Family History Library (FHL) www.familysearch.org
Subscription website
ancestry.com
includes a searchable database of more than 1.5 million Civil War
prisoner of war
records.
See
“Family Tree
Magazine,” vol.
12, issue 5, Sep 2011, p 63
Military—Civil
War—Records
–Civil War Soldier and Sailors System database
“NGS
Newsmagazine ,”
vol. 28, no. 4, July/August 2002, pp 217-220
Military—Resource—How
To—“Genealogical Resources of the
Civil War Era by William
Dollarhide
(Family Roots Publishing Co) identifies documents covering everyone
from
the
start of the war through 1869. You’ll learn about federal &
state sources, online and
off.
Military
– Civil War –
Rosters—arranged by State—the most complete list of Civil
War roster
Links
-- www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/3680/cw/cw.html
“Family
Chronicle,”
Vol. 13, No. 1, Sep/Oct 2008, p 52
Military
- Civil War Soldiers
and Sailors System: Completed and Reborn
by
Curt Witcher,
“Forum”
FGS quarterly, Spring, Volume 16,
Number 4, pp 31-32
Military
- Civil War - Searching
for Confederate soldier records at the National Archives
“NGS
NewsMagazine” Vol. 31, No. 3, Jul/Aug/Sep 2005, pp 15-18
Military - Civil War - Tracing
African Americans during the Civil War by
Christopher A. Nordmann, PhD
“NGS
NewsMagazine” Vol. 31, No. 3, Jul/Aug/Sep 2005, pp 19-23
Military
- Civil War - Schogg
Civil War Collection -
by Barbara DeWolfe
“NGS
NewsMagazine” Vol. 31, No. 3, Jul/Aug/Sep 2005, pp 29-31
Military—Civil
War—South Dakota 1885 veteran’s
census of both Confederate & Union
http://history.sd.gov/Archives/Data/civilwar/default.aspx
Military
- Website - Civil War -
The Essential References for Civil War
Research
http://soldierquest.org/essential_references.htm
Military
- Website - Civil War collection
from Gettysburg
www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/gettex/
Military
- Website - Civil War -
Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System
www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html
this
site will give you the unit they served
Military
- Website - Civil War
- NPS Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System
www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/
Military - Civil War -
“The Last Line of Defense” David A. Norris looks for
Civil War ancestors in
militias, home guards and reserves.
So you have looked at published
military rosters and local histories but the ancestors was not
found....it is estimated 230,000 militia and ‘emergency men’
served short terms in the Union Army and never officially mustered
into the service (Home Guard units, Junior or Senior Reserves or
military prison guards). Likewise a number of Confederate troops who
never were mustered into their army.
Family
Chronicle September/October
2006, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp 16-19
Military
- Civil War - A
Promise Kept by Beverly Smith Vorpahl
Everton’s
Genealogical Helper, Vol. 61, No. II, March/April 2007, pp 16-21
Military - Civil War -
Stars and Bars: a Civil War Research Project - David
A. Norris looks to the internet for answers to his confederate family
queries - Published and online troop rosters
Internet
Genealogy, Vol. 2,
No. 3, August/September 2007, pp 9-14
Military - Civil War
- The Union : a guide
to federal archives relating to the Civil War / Kenneth W. Munden,
Henry Putney Beers.
location
- Genealogy section Pomona
Library -
R 016.973 MUN
Military
- Civil War - Vermont
Volunteers by Beverly Smith Vorpahl
Everton’s
Genealogical Helper, Vol. 61, No. II, March/April 2007, pp 20-21
Military
- Civil War - Widows’
Pension Files to be digitized
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 62, No. 1, Jan/Feb 2008, p 71
Military - Civil War Maps
online by David A Norris
“Internet
Genealogy,”
Vol. 3, No. 3, August/September 2008, pp 47-52
Military—Civil
War Maps--
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps/
Military—1898—Spanish-American
War—United States vs Spain
U.S.
casualties: 332 combat deaths
Military
- Spanish-American War
- “SP”
Leads to Discovery (“SP” notation found in the 1930
Census)
“FGS
Forum,” Vol. 18, No 3, Fall 2006, pp
11-13Military
- Website - Indexes and records WWI, WWII,
Korean & Vietnam wars.
www.militaryindexes.com/index.html
Military—1914-1918—WWI—Triple
Alliance: Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary vs.
Triple
Entente: Britain, France, and Russia. The United States joined on
the side of
the
Triple Entente in 1917.
Military
Posters – WWI --
Military Records—WWI document archive—
www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi
Military Records - WWI
Draft Cards - Donna Murray Allen describes a great genealogical
resource. “Family Chronicle”
March/April 2005, p 62
Militry Records—WWI Draft
Cards—All US WWI draft registration cards are stored in the
National Archives and Records Administration’s Southeast
Regional Center in Atlanta, Georgia. These are the originals. The
cards contain basic information such as name, address, birthdate,
place of employment and sometimes, next of kin. If you go in person,
you’re free to search through as many boxes as you wish, as the
cards are in alphabetical order, and you’ll pay only a small
duplicating fee. You may also email your request to
Atlanta.archives@nara.gov
and pay a nominal fee to get it by mail. Some state and county
libraries also have microfilm copies of the cards related to that
geographical area.
Military Records—WWI—“Lost
Battalion”—
The man who wasn’t there: Harold Bion Wiltse
(1896-1972) and the World
War I “Lost
Battalion.”
“NGS
Quarterly,”
vol. 98, no. 2, June 2010, pp 101-110
Military Records - WWI -
The 4th
Registration list includes men who were born between 1877-1897, who
were considered too old to serve in the U.S. Army when the War began,
but might need to be called if there were not enough younger men to
serve. This list includes name, address, age, place and date of
birth, physical description of the registrant, employer’s name
and address and name and address of a contact person.
Military Records - WWI
- Newspaper Pictorials: World
War I Rotogravures -
The images in this collection track American sentiment about the war
in Europe, week by week, before and after the United States became
involved. Events of the war are detailed alongside society news and
advertisements touting products of the day, creating a pictorial
record of both the war effort and life at home. The collection
includes an illustrated history of World
War I selected from
newspaper rotogravure sections that graphically documents the people,
places, and events important to the war.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/rotogravures/
Military Records - WWI
- Over There, The
Great War engulfed the entire world–including your ancestors,
whether they headed to Europe or stayed home. Here’s how to
trace them in records of World
War I, by David A.
Fryxell
Family
Tree Magazine, Vol.8, Issue 5, November 2007,
pp 18-25
Military
Records—WWI—Postcards:
Bowman Gray Collections
www.lib.unc.edu/dc/graypc/
Military
Records – WWI – Registration Cards – uncovering
clues in registration cards
“Family
Tree Magazine,” Vol. 11, Issue 1, pp
62-63
Military Records - WWI soldiers
naturalization research - The problem, by Marian L. Smith “NGS
NewsMagazine” Vol. 31, No. 2,
Apr/May/Jun 2005, pp 23-28
Military
- WWI - Armistice Day
- Musings Gleanings by Richard L. Hooverson
Everton’s
Genealogical Helper, Vol. 61, issue VI,
Nov/Dec 2007, pp 10-11
Military -WWI
- The Great War: A
Guide to the Service Records of All the World's Fighting Men and
Volunteers by Christina K. Schaefer: Format: Hardcover;
Size:
6 x 9; Pages: xiv + 189 pp; Published: 1998, Reprinted: 2006; Price:
$22.50
ISBN:
0806315547
Review by: Genealogical.com
the home page of
Genealogical Publishing Company, Clearfield Company, and Gateway
Press.
World War I has
passed from living memory into the history books, receding far enough
into the distance to provide a genealogical challenge. In order to
reconstruct the lives and locate the records of those who served,
fought, volunteered, or were conscripted, we must rely on a vast but
relatively unknown body of resources. Counting all combatants, the
number of men who served in the Great
War runs into the
millions; needless to say, finding records on them in the two dozen
countries that participated in the war is a daunting and laborious
task--now made infinitely simpler with the publication of this
magnificent guide to WWI
service records. The only book of its kind, this ambitious effort to
catalogue service records and related sources is international in
scope, covering the soldiers of all countries participating in the
war, from Britain, Germany, and France, to Russia, Canada, and the
U.S.; and from India, Australia, and Japan, to South Africa and
Brazil! This is a key to a motherlode of genealogical data and should
grow in value as our need for WWI-era
information increases. Right now it represents
a whole new path in genealogical research, with fresh possibilities
and discoveries at every turn.
The first part of the book is
designed to provide background on the organization of the military in
1914, the order of battle, how to use the records, and a general
time-line of events, focusing on 1914 to 1918. The second part
concentrates on the combatants, describing each country's armed
forces, conscription history, and its military and naval records,
and, to the greatest extent possible, their location. (Records that
have been microfilmed and are available worldwide through the Family
History Library System of the LDS Church are identified by roll
number.) The third part of the book describes casualty lists and POW
records, and provides a table showing changes in place names, while
the final section of the book, an appendix, contains a glossary of
abbreviations, Internet addresses, and a select bibliography of books
in English.
The disposition of personnel
files varies from country to country, depending on privacy laws and
archival practices. In some cases documents are held by a military
archive, in others by a national repository. In a few cases, such as
Great Britain, service files are in the process of being transferred
from one agency to another. Whatever their disposition--and it is an
important aim of this book to identify their disposition--the records
covered here fall under the following headings: draft records,
personnel papers, unit records, embarkation lists, death records and
casualty reports, military parish registers, regimental returns,
medal lists, entitlement lists, hospital registers, pension records,
and diaries. A particularly useful section of the book, "Research
Tips," describes the general organization of military records,
the organization of those records in specific countries, and the
condition and comprehensiveness of the records.
With help from dozens of
individuals and institutions throughout the world, in particular from
libraries such as the Army Pentagon Library, the Navy Department
Library, the Library of Congress, the Family History Library, the
Hoover Institute (Stanford University), the Public Record Office
(England), and the national archives of at least a dozen countries,
the author has managed to compile a guide to WWI service records that
is not only unique but totally comprehensive. She has taken a
mountain of material and cut it down to size, transforming an
unwieldy body of sources into a streamlined archive. Her pioneering
efforts will save researchers untold hours of toil, adding limbs to
family trees and providing opportunities for further research.
"In sum, The Great
War is full of good
addresses; it provides a quick overview (especially of foreign
materials), and it may be the only book ever published in English on
foreign servicemen."--NATIONAL GENEALOGICAL
SOCIETY QUARTERLY, Vol. 87, No. 1, pp. 69-70.
Military—WWI—Writing
Home to California in WWI
“The
Searcher,” vol.
48, no. 3, Summer 2011, pp 108-109
Military—1939-1945—WWII—Axis
Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan vs. Major Allied
Powers:
United States, Great Britain, France and Russia.
Military
– WWII –
Always remember me: how one family survived WWII by Marisabina Russo
Call
# X 940.53 RUS (children’s room)
Book
is part of the Pomona
City Library genealogical
collection
Military
- WWII - Bonds - War
Bonds - by Richard L. Hooverson
“Heritage
Quest” Vol. 18, No. 4, Issue 100,
Jul/Aug 2002, pp 80-81
Military—British
WWII Merchant Vessel
Cards – David A. Norris examines an under-
appreciated
genealogical resource.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/bt389.asp
“Internet
Genealogy” Vol. 4, No. 3, Aug/Sept 2009
pp 17-18
Military
– WWII –
“D-Day”
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,” Vol. 62, Issue
III, May/June 2008, pp 13-14
Military—WWII—Deeds,
Not Words: Americans in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)
Glen
Wright looks at the records for the CEF of WWII.
“Family
Chronicle,” no.
15, no. 6, Jul/Aug 2011, pp 31-32
Military
- WWII - Draft
Cards - Ancestry.com now has World
War II Old men’s Draft
Cards
Online.
see -U.S. World War II Draft
Registration Cards, 1942
Military—WWII—Draft
Registration -- Alien’s Personal History & Statement—D.S.S.
Form
304—draft
registration form from WWII for those men who were aliens.
“NGS
Magazine,” vol.
35, no. 2, April/June 2009, pp 19-23
Military
- WWII - Kilroy
was here - Musings Gleanings by Richard L. Hooverson
Everton’s
Genealogical Helper, Vol. 61, issue VI,
Nov/Dec 2007, p 12
Military—WWII—Pictorial
Resources
“Internet
Genealogy,” Vol. 4, No. 6, Feb/Mar
2010, pp 38-39
Military
- WWII - Posters - All
2,820 Posters
www.flickr.com/photos/bpx/sets/72057594121519817/
Everton’s
Genealogical Helper Vol. 61, No. 3, May/June
2007, p 56
Military - WWII
- POW’s -
Italian - Love and War: in small-town USA by
Sylvia Corrado - During WWII
half a million Italian
POW’s came to US
for internment. About 7,000 of them were sent to Massachusetts,
where Italian Americans got to know them well.
“Ambassador
Magazine” (NIAF), No 48, Spring 2001, pp 10-15
Militry—WWII—Pearl
Harbor Casualty List
http://www.usswestvirginia.org/ph/phlist.php
Military—WWII
– Pearl Harbor
Muster Rolls – detailed muster rolls listing all personnel
assigned
to ships based at Pearl Harbor 1939-1947 (at Footnote.com)
Military—WWII—Pearl
Harbor research material at the National Archives
Go
to www.archives.gov in upper
right side box “Search Archives.gov”
type
in “pearl harbor attack”
Military—WWII—Prisoners
of the Japanese, 1941-1945 database on
www.ancestry.com
This
database contains information on approximately 140,000 U.S. officers
and soldiers, as well as U.S. and
some
Allied civilians who were prisoners of war (POWs) during World War II
(specifically 7 Dec 1941-19
Nov
1946). Information in this database was originally taken from records
and reports created by the
International
Committee of the Red Cross. Generally, the type of information you
will find in this database
for
an individual includes: name of prisoner or internee, race, state of
residence, service branch, and
detaining
country.
Military
- WWII - Rationing
Books -Genealogists are always in search of
new record sources when confronted with a brick wall. Well, can you
think of a resource that not only gives you name, address, age and
occupation, but also height and weight of a person? Interestingly,
the ration books issued during World War Two attempted to capture*
these items.
http://genealogytoday.com/guide/war-ration-books.html
Military - WWII -
Records - World War II Draft Registration
Cards - John M. Hoenig describes this
valuable source of information.
“Family
Chronicle,” Vol. 11, No. 3, Jan/Feb 2007, p 44
Military - WWII -
(English) Schools at War - records what happened to schools during
the WWII - by David Stranack
“FGS
Forum,” Vol. 18, No 3, Fall 2006, p 32
Military—1950-1953—Korean
War—United States (as part of the
United Nations)
and
South Korea vs. North Korea and Communist China.
United
States casualties & losses
36,516
dead (including 2,830 non-combat deaths)
92,134
wounded
8,176
MIA
7,245
POW
US
Congress war crimes
investigation, the United States Senate Subcommittee on Korean War
Atrocities
of the Permanent Subcommittee of the Investigations of the Committee
on Government
Operations
reported that "... two-thirds
of all American prisoners of war in Korea died as a result
of
war crimes"
41 captured US Army prisoners of war were machine-gunned
by members of the
North Korean People’s Army
Victims of Hill 303 massacre showing bound hands in
burial area near
Waegwan, Korea, 17 August 1950
Military—1960-1975—Vietnam
War—United States and South Vietnam
vs. North Vietnam
Casualties as
of 1 Jun 2011
58,272
KIA or non-combat deaths
(including the missing & deaths in captivity)
303,644
WIA (including 153,303
who required hospitalization & 150,341 who
didn’t)
1,687
MIA (originally 2,646)
866
POW (765 released, 36
escaped, 65 died in captivity)
First and last US
Casualties in Vietnam War
Military
– Vietnam -
Names of veterans of the Vietnam War
enshrined on the Vietnam
Memorial Wall are now all available online at Footnote.com - family
members or friends may go online to add comments and pictures to the
website wall.
Mindmapping - The Magic of Mindmapping - by Loni Gardner
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,”
Vol. 60, No. 4, July/Aug 2006, pp 33-35
Mine
Workers Records--
Blue-Collar Breakthroughs—your ancestors’ work in the
mines produced
heavy-duty
paperwork. Discover how to mine the genealogical fruits of their
labors
“Family
Tree Magazine,”
vol. 12, issue 7, Dec 2011, pp 42-48
Miners
Records—African-American Coal Miner information center
<freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/-blackcoalminers>
“Family
Tree Magazine,”
vol. 12, issue 7, Dec 2011, pp 42-48
Mistakes—Mistakes
and why we all make them
“NGS
Magazine,” vol
36, no.1, Jan-Mar 2010, pp 70-71
Mitochondrial
DNA – mtDNA – genetic material mothers pass on to their
children
Mitochondrial
DNA – mtDNA – Best for learning about ancient
maternal-line ancestry.
Can
confirm a relationship, but you won’t know how long ago the
common ancestor lived.
Results
apply to the women on the bottom line of your family tree chart.
Results
assign a haplogroup. Men and women can take this test.
Mocavo—Searching
the Web with Mocavo tutorial
“Family
Tree Magazine,”
vol. 12, issue 6, Nov 2011, pp 70-71
Mocavo—see
also “Search Engines”
Molasses
– The first mention of molasses was in a 1582 history of the
discovery of the East
Indies.
It was described as a “certine kind of Sugar made of Palmes of
Date trees.”
MOLECULAR
GENEALOGY - See DNA
Money Values - Financial Aid - by James M. Beidler -
Were your ancestors prosperous or penniless? You can bet your bottom
dollar we’ll help you find out.
“Family
Tree Magazine,” Vol. 7, Issue 2, April
2006, pp 46-51
Mortality
Schedules – http://mortalityschedules.com/p.htm
MortalitySchedules—If
your ancestor died within the 12 months preceding the 1850, 1860,
1870, or
1880
census, you won’t find him or her in the regular
enumeration—but you may find the dearly
departed
in this free site, which searches those “mortality schedules.”
The mortality schedules
usually
included the date and cause of death. Be aware that the online
transcriptions do not
include
all data found on the original mortality schedule images, so you may
want to follow up
with
research on Ancestry.com (subscription may be required) or by viewing
microfilmed copies.
http://www.mortalityschedules.com/
Mortality
schedules -- Special Help
“Family
Tree Magazine,” vol. 10, issue 4, July
2009, pp 21-27
Mother’s
Day – Musings Gleanings from the world of history &
genealogy by
Richard L. Hooverson
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,” Vol. 62, Issue
III, May/June 2008 p 10
Mountain
Men and the fur trade—Got an ancestor who worked in the Rockies
in the 1st part of
the
19th century?
Explore tis virtual museum, digital library and gallery of digitized
books,
letters, diaries and other historical material about “mountain
men.”
www.mtmen.org
Movies
- see also Home Movies
MRCA
– (most recent common ancestor) –the most recent ancestor
two individuals
both
descend from
Mugbook - Vanity Sketches: Mugbook Sources and Truths,
by D. Joshua Taylor, Boston, Massachusetts; “Forum”
Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer 2006, pp 13-15
Murder
- see Skeletons in the closet
Murphy’s Law of Genealogy
1. The public ceremony in which your distinguished
ancestor participated and at which the platform collapsed under him
turned out to be a hanging.
2. When at last after much hard work you have solved
the mystery that you have been working on for 2 years, your aunt
says, “I could have told you that.”
3. You search 10 years for your grandmother’s
maiden name to eventually find it on a letter in a box in the attic.
4. You never asked your father about his family when he
was alive because you weren’t interested in genealogy then.
5.
The Will you need is in the safe on board the Titanic.
6. John, son of Thomas the immigrant whom your
relatives claim as the family progenitor, died on board ship at the
age of 10.
7. Your great grandfather’s newspaper obituary
states that he died leaving no issue of record.
8.
Another genealogist has just insulted the keeper of the vital
records you need.
9. The one document that would supply the missing link
in your dead end line has been lost due to fire, flood, or war.
10... The town clerk to whom you wrote for the
information sends you a long handwritten letter which is totally
illegible.
11. No one in your family tree ever did anything
noteworthy, owned property, was sued or was named in a will.
12. You learn that your great aunt’s executor just
sold her life’s collection of family genealogical materials to
a flea market dealer “Somewhere in New York City”
13. Ink fades and paper deteriorates at a rate
inversely proportional to the value of the data recorded.
14. You finally find your great grandparents’
wedding record and discover that the bride’s father was named
John Smith.
Museum – www.museumstuff.com/museums/
Museums
– Immigration Museums - Immigration Museums – by Molly
Arost Staur –
Sampling of Immigration Museums
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/
(Merseyside Maritime Museum & International Slavery Museum)
http://www.ballinstadt.de/Willkommen.html
BallinStadt Emigration Museum, Hamburg, Germany – in German
http://www.dah-bremerhaven.de/english/hauptseite_e.html
German Emigration Center Bremerhaven, Germany
http://www.cobhheritage.com/index2.html
Cobh Heritage Centre, Cork, Ireland – Emigration & Famine
– from 1848-1950 over 6 million adults & children
emigrated from Ireland with over 2.5 million departing from Cobh.
http://www.dunbrody.com/
Dunbody’s Ship Tour, New Ross, Ireland -- Dunbrody was
a 19th Century three masted sailing ship that brought many emigrants
from Ireland to North America during and after the Great Famine. --
A huge database of emigrants who sailed from Ireland in the
nineteenth century.
http://www.nmni.com/uafp
National Museums Northern Ireland – Ulster Museum –
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum – Ulster American Folk Park
– Armagh County Museum
http://www.museumsnett.no/emigrantmuseum/info.html
The Norwegian Emigrant Museum – Akershagan, 2312 Offestad,
Norway
http://www.bh.org.il/
Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv, Israel
www.ellisisland.org
http://www.tenement.org/
Lower East Side Tenement Museum, NYC
http://www.newamericansmuseum.org/
New Americans Museum, San Diego
http://www.pier21.ca/
Pier 21, Canada’s Immigration Museum, Halifax, Canada
http://www.angelisland.com/
Angel Isdland Immigration Station, San Francisco
http://www.galvestonhistory.org/Texas_Seaport_Museum.asp
Texas Seaport Museum, Galveston, Texas – Galveston Historical
Foundation – Galveston Immigration Database
Museums
– Worker Museums – Get a hands-on look at how work used
to be
“Ancestry
Magazine,” Vol. 28, No. 1, Jan/Feb
2010, p 13
Music – Sounds and Family History – by
Loretta Evans, AG
“Everton’s
Genealogical Helper,” Vol. 62, Issue V, Sep/Oct 2008, pp 20-22
Music
-- Music of your Ancestors – David A. Norris waxes lyrical on
the joys of discovering
one’s
musical genealogy. We can’t have a war without music
“Family
Chronicle,”
Vol. 13, No. 4, March/April, pp 6-10
Mutation
– changes in DNA that can help reveal how long ago an MRCA
lived when two people
have
closely matching marker values
MyHeritage
- MyHeritage.com
A host of free
genealogy tools enable you to lets you create your family's own
meeting place on the Internet where you can share family photos, post
your family tree online, trace the family's medical history and keep
track of important family events. Plus, free genealogy software and a
genealogy search engine to help you expand your family history
research.
MyHeritage
acquires family social network Kindo, a London based team which was
announced Sep 2008.
MyHeritage
– Web guide how to use
“Family
Tree Magazine,”
vol. 11, issue 2, March 2010, pp 33-40
Mystery—Uncovering
more than artifacts: Roy Wilcox and Isle Royale—Jean
Wilcox Hibben
discovers
a mystery from her father’s past.
“Family
Chronicle,”
vol. 14, no. 5, May/June 2010, pp 43-45
Myth—The
Myth of Impossible Proof; Modern Genealogy Methods and a Holocaust
Fraud—by
Sharon
E. Sergeant—Serious
researchers do not allow political considerations to overrule data.
Evidence
lurks behind any historical and political agenda, stereotype, or
family tradition.
“NSG
Quarterly,”
vol. 96, no. 3, Sept 2008, pp 177-191
Myths
- see also Family Myths, Family Stories, Fables, Oral Stories, Story
Telling
MyTrees—Online
family tree— www.mytrees.com/