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03 July 2015

FREE Access to Fold3 Revolutionary War Records (through 15 July 2015)

From Fold3 ...

As we celebrate America’s independence this month, learn more about the people who made it possible by exploring Fold3’s Revolutionary War Collection for free July 1^stto 15^th.

Popular titles for finding Revolutionary War ancestors include:

§ Revolutionary War Pensions

§ Revolutionary War Service Records

§ Revolutionary War Rolls

§ Final Payment Vouchers Index for Military Pensions, 1818–1864

If you’re interested in the historical aspects of the war, you can explore the captured vessels prize cases, Revolutionary War Milestone Documents, the Pennsylvania Archives, Constitutional Convention Records, and the papers and records of the Continental Congress, among others.

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22 May 2015

FREE Access to Select Military Databases at American Ancestors (now through 27 May 2015)

As we get ready to celebrate the Memorial Day, it’s a great time to think about our ancestors who served – many of them in conflicts decades or centuries before we were born. If you have New England colonial or revolutionary war era ancestors, this FREE access offer might interest you.

To commemorate Memorial Day and make your ancestral research more memorable this holiday, American Ancestors and NEHGS are offering FREE ACCESS to two of our most important military databases NOW through Wednesday, May 27 to Guest Users, available exclusively on AmericanAncestors.org.

Access requires your registration as a FREE Guest User. If you are already a Guest User, sign in to start using these databases now. Read about the benefits.

· Colonial Soldiers and Officers in New England, 1620-1775

· Massachusetts Revolutionary War Pensioners’ Receipts 1799-1807

· Massachusetts Revolutionary War Pensioners’ Receipts 1829-1837

Read more about the offer and databases here.

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02 March 2015

The Book of Negroes

BET broadcast in February (16^th-18^th) The Book of Negroes. This show raised incredible interest in the basis for this show, the actual Inspection Roll of Negroes, commonly referred to as the Book of Negroes. The BET website has a number of video clips that can be accessed.

If you live in Canada, the show was broadcast on CBC and it appears that you can access the program episodes there (Sorry and those living in the

and elsewhere cannot access these!)

This Boston Glob article, ‘Book of Negroes’ reveals little-known chapter in history will fill you in a bit more on the mini-series.

The NARA website has a blog post about the document that forms the basis of the program.

The Book of Negroes is actually a set of two ledgers that lists the names, ages, and descriptive information of about 3,000 enslaved African Americans, indentured servants, and freedmen that were evacuated from the United States along with British soldiers at the conclusion of the American Revolution. Over the extent of about 200 pages, this record captures what is now invaluable genealogical information such as where a person was held in slavery, their owner’s name, and when and how the person obtained freedom.

If you caught it on BET or CBC, please let us know your reaction and thoughts!

Image source information:

National Archives Identifier: 5890797

Creator(s): Congress of the Confederation. (03/02/1781 - 03/04/1789) (Most Recent)

From: Series : Miscellaneous Papers of the Continental Congress, compiled 1774 - 1789

HMS Entry Number(s): UD 2

Record Group 360: Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional Convention, 1765 - 1821

You can access via this link, http://research.archives.gov/description/5890797

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09 February 2015

DAR -- Supporting Documentation Now Available for Purchase Through GRS

Another great bit of news for researchers!

The great Genealogical Research System (GRS) of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) has gotten even better!

Previously you could purchase record copies (e.g. applications for $10 each) for those who have previously applied for DAR membership. This is great because if your ancestor is found as either someone who “served” of the descendant of someone who served, you could get a sense of the lineage and type of service and a peek into the documentation provided (without actually seeing more than a list of what was used as given on the application). Very helpful as you try to identify a qualifying candidate not just for DAR and for SAR, Colonial Dames, Society of Cincinnati, and other Revolutionary War or Colonial era based lineage societies.

Now, you can purchase the Supporting Documents associated with applications for $20.

The documents may include family bible records, deeds, wills and other various materials that were used to prove lineage to a patriot of the American Revolution. Similar to Record Copies, any vital records or applications that contain personal information (birth, death, marriage, divorce or other sensitive documentation) will not be included with the Supporting Documents unless they are over 100 years old. DAR is committed to privacy and these efforts are in place to keep members and their family’s personal information confidential.

Before becoming available for access, these records are all “reviewed and indexed by DAR staff genealogists and DAR member volunteers. More Supporting Documents will become available as more are reviewed.”

16 December 2014

The National Genealogical Society Introduces New Course: Researching Your Revolutionary War Ancestors

ARLINGTON, VA, 16 DECEMBER 2014: The National Genealogical Society announced today the release of its newest Continuing Genealogical Studies (CGS) course: Researching Your Revolutionary War Ancestors. Developed by military records expert Craig Roberts Scott, CG, FUGA, the new course expands on NGS’s offerings for teaching military research strategies, and helps achieve NGS’s goal of providing quality educational opportunities to the genealogical community.

In addition to his role as CEO and President of Heritage Books, Inc., Craig Scott has spent decades honing his military research expertise and teaching these skills within the genealogical community. He has coordinated military courses at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh, and Samford University's Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research in Birmingham, Alabama. His books include Understanding Revolutionary War and Invalid Pension Ledgers 1818-1872 and Pension Payment Vouchers They Represent, and The "Lost" Pensions: Settled Accounts of the Act of 6 April 1838.

In this eight-module cloud-based course, Scott introduces numerous U.S. based records related to those who fought for independence, including compiled service records, prisoner of war records, and pension files. He will also teach strategies to identify and locate information about ancestors who lived at the time of the Revolution.

Researching Your Revolutionary War Ancestors is available to NGS members for $45.00 and to non-members for $70.00. For additional information or to purchase the course, visit the NGS website at http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/researching_your_revolutionary_war_ancestors.

The NGS Continuing Genealogical Studies courses are designed for both beginners and established genealogists who wish to focus on a specific topic and put their ensuing knowledge to work quickly. The courses allow individuals to complete genealogical coursework at their own pace and from the convenience of their own homes.

Two other cloud-based CGS courses are also offered:

Introduction to Civil War Research

Genetic Genealogy, The Basics

In addition to the CGS courses, NGS also offers several courses from its American Genealogical Studies (AGS) series, including:

The Basics

Guide to Documentation and Source Citation

Advanced AGS courses in a new series called Beyond the Basics are currently in development. This cloud-based series is scheduled for release in 2015 and will complete American Genealogical Studies, which replaces the NGS Home Study Course, the standard in genealogical education for decades.

Founded in 1903, the National Genealogical Society is dedicated to genealogy education, high research standards, and the preservation of genealogical records. The Arlington, Virginia-based nonprofit is the premier national society for everyone, from the beginner to the most advanced family historian seeking excellence in publications, educational offerings, research guidance, and opportunities to interact with other genealogists.

07 August 2014

FREE Visualization Tool for American Revolution Sites, Events, and Troop

I happened to be doing some Revolutionary War research yesterday and I had a need to determine two things for a particular conflict – where did it occur and what troops were involved and where had they moved from. Let’s be honest here, I am not a person who get’s enthralled with seeing light bulbs on a map showing troop movements (so often seen at the visitors centers at battlefield locations) nor did I ever play with battle figurines as a child. My needs were to try and prove that a particular person serving in the militia served in a unit which may have crossed the NC/SC state line.

In the course of my searching (initially for a particular creek somewhere near the NC/SC border), I came across American Revolution Sites, Events and Troop Movements (13922 total) created by EleHistory Research. Using this visualizing of history, you can, for example, see what units are positioned where on any given date and using color-coded lines you can see the “movement” of the troops from point A to point B. This showed me what I needed to see for October 1780 (pictured above).

Additionally, you can see select “Sites” such as forts, courthouses, plantations, gristmills, hospitals and much more overlaid.

You can also see a snapshot of what is of interest to you by selecting any of these to examine: Events, Troops, or Time. All of this information is overlaid on Google maps.

The site describes itself via ...

An interactive map that plots significant places and actions during the American Revolution. The map is an ongoing project to encapsulate interrelated sites, commanders, military units, troop movements, weather conditions, and source documentation into one coherent user interface. Sites include forts, batteries, courthouses, hospitals, churches, schools, plantations, grist mills, iron furnaces, forges, fords, ferries, bridges, inns, ordinaries, taverns, landmarks, camps, battles, skirmishes, sieges, cemeteries, and graves. Each site is plotted only if it existed during the specified time period. Troop movements can be plotted on a daily basis. The map is particularly effective in showing simultaneous historical events.

Once again I have stumbled across a really neat tool. If you are doing any revolutionary war research, it might help you visualize where an ancestor who served was located on any given day. Before using this tool, do recognize that you will need to have identified under which commander your person served, though some militia units are shown, such as the Onslow (NC) Militia located in Wilmington (NC) on 1776-03-30.

Didn't see what you hoped? It's a work in progress. Check back again in the future and just maybe a battle your ancestor fought in will be included.

Let us know what you discover!

Editor’s Note: You might also visit the EleHistory main page for a collection of History Reports and Published Articles. Most of these are about the American Revolution.

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21 July 2014

Newest Edition of NGS Magazine (July/Aug/Sept 2014) Available to NGS Members Now!

The July/Aug/Sept 2014 issue of the NGS Magazine (PDF 5.3MB) is now online in the Members Only section of the website.

Features

NGS awards, competitions, and recognition, by Charles S. Mason Jr., CG

NGS Hall of Fame Inductee

New Corps of Discovery: NGS 2015 Family History Conference, by Janet L Powell

No federal pension file for a Pennsylvania Revolutionary War soldier?, by Sharon Cook MacInnes, PhD

The Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (and Navies), by Diane Florence Gravel, CG

Border state divided families during the Civil War, by Rebecca Rector, MLS

Rich, poor, and all the rest: Why class matters to genealogists, by Stefani Evans, CG

Black sheep ancestors and their records, by C. Ann Staley, CG, CGL

Columns
National Archives, by Marie Varrelman Melchiori, CG, CGL, and Claire Prechtel-Kluskens

Reference desk, by Kathy Petlewski, MSLS

DNA basics, by Debbie Parke Wayne, CG, CGL

Technology, by Jordan Jones

Departments
President’s message, by Jordan Jones

Editor’s corner, by Elizabeth Kelley Kerstens, CG

NGS/Genealogy news

Editor’s Note: Please note that online access to the NGS Quarterly and NGS Magazine are available only as long as your membership is active. NGS Members can access the NGS Magazine archives (2005-present).

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17 July 2014

FREE Access to Fold3 Revolutionary War Collections Through End of Month

If you are researching Revolutionary War era ancestors, you can check out the Revolutionary War collections at Fold3 for FREE through the end of this month (31 July 2014). Read more at Access the Revolutionary War Collection

If you have Revolutionary War ancestors, you might find them in the Revolutionary War pension files, service records, war rolls, or payment vouchers, or in the Revolutionary War Manuscript File. If you’re interested in the historical aspects of the war, you can explore the captured vessels prize cases, Revolutionary War milestone documents, Pennsylvania Archives, Constitutional Convention records, and the papers and letters of the Continental Congress, among others.

If you make an exciting find, please share !

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15 April 2014

The Society of the Cincinnati Library -- a hidden gem near Dupont Circle in DC

I spent a delightful Friday the other week visiting Anderson House, the home of The Society of the Cincinnati and its library. I was there to research the pre-1810 records of one of the constituent societies. The archivist, Valerie Sallis, was incredibly helpful and made sure that I exhausted every conceivable record and book for my research.

What I didn’t learn until I was there is that the library is open to the public. Though its value is clearly weighted toward those researching the Revolutionary War time period, many holdings also contain the names of those who served. Additionally, when I returned home and decided to write this post, I learned via the website of some neat digitized resources. In the words of The Society of the Cincinnati ...

The Society of the Cincinnati library collects, preserves, and makes available for research printed and manuscript materials relating to the military and naval history of the eighteenth century, with a particular concentration on the people and events of the American Revolution. The Robert Charles Lawrence Fergusson Collection specializes in works relating to the art of war in the period, providing context for the achievement of the volunteer American forces and their French allies in securing the independence of the United States. Complementing the library's extensive rare book collection are historical manuscripts, maps, graphic arts, and the archives of the Society of the Cincinnati. In addition, a modern reference collection supports research on the American revolutionary period and the history of the Society of the Cincinnati and its members; and a collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century children's literature and fiction reveal popular perceptions of the American Revolution through time. The library also houses books, manuscripts, photographs, and other documentary materials relating to Larz and Isabel Anderson.

The Society's library is not primarily a genealogical library and does not generally collect works on family history and lineage. However, through its collecting focus on the Revolutionary War there may occasionally be modern or rare resources documenting a particular individual's military career or Society membership. Applications for membership in the Society are strictly handled through the fourteen constituent societies that make up the General Society, and any membership records held onsite are closed to research without prior approval from the constituent society to whom those records belong.

The library is open to the public by appointment Monday through Friday from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm. The library is located on the lower floor of Anderson House, the Society's headquarters located in Washington, D.C. Readers are required to register and show photo identification in order to access the collections. The library makes photocopies and scans of materials on a case-by-case basis as conditions of the material allow. Readers are also allowed to take their own photographs for personal research use, provided they are not published online or in-print without our permission. The library catalog and finding aid for the Society archives are available for searching online through our website. As well, selected rare works from the collections--including several manuscript orderly books from the Continental Army-- have been digitized and are available for online reading or download. The library is happy to answer questions about the collections from off-site researchers and schedule appointments for on-site use by email at library@societyofthecincinnati.org, or over the phone at 202-785-2040 ext. 411.

When you contact the library via e-mail and/or when you show up for your scheduled appointment, the reading room regulations will be shared with you.

Even if you don't want or need to do research at the library, the museum is open and free to visit, 1-4 PM, Tuesday-Saturday. Tours are also available, for individuals or groups. Additionally, many public programs are offered. Most are free to attend and include concerts, informal talks, author talks, lectures, day trips and more.

If you cannot visit the house in person, do check out the virtual tour (then and now -- at the bottom of this page) of select areas of the house.

Though I didn’t find the “smoking gun” that I had hoped for, I did learn more about the person I was researching and in our world, when you are researching someone who served in the Revolutionary War, any information is valuable. I also got to see a glimpse of a gorgeous historical building.

Have you found the library/archive of another lineage society especially invaluable?

Editor’s Notes: A recent Upfront with NGS post about visiting archives and using manuscript collection, Are you using manuscript collections for your genealogy research? If not, the gems you might be missing!!

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04 April 2014

New Revolutionary War Records -- Congressional claims files -- Citizen Archivist Project

We love learning about records that are newly available to a broad audience, especially if they are records typically under-utilized due to their previous obscurity!

Such is the case with Congressional Claims.

The immediate purpose of the [Citizen Archivist Project] work is two-fold: first, to provide box level descriptions of claims made to Congress by participants in the Revolutionary War, and their heirs or assigns; and second, to introduce students of history, library and/or archival science to the user experience as researchers. To that end, we have assigned to our student interns the work to produce box-lists of the contents of Congressional claims files papers. The interns have to determine from the limited finding-aides that already exist, what papers to request for a particular committee, like the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, or the Committee on Military Affairs, etc. These committee papers, petitions and memorials are requested from the legislative archivists and each document is reviewed. A synopsis is then made listing more-or-less the relevant data; including at the very least the names of claimants, dates, basic nature of the claim and page count.

Read this post, Archives Fair at the US National Archives, which talks about what has been done in these records for the 16^th Congress. Here is an example of two entries:

Ward, Jonathan, 4 January 1820

Report of the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims in the case of Jonathan Ward, son of Stephen Ward– pension not granted (1)

Ward, Samuel, 21January 1820

Report of the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims in the case of Samuel Ward– relief granted (1)

Here is a link to a list of claimants for the 17^th Congress – Project Update. I’m sure there are even more goodies available.

Want to become a Citizen Archivist? Check out the Citizen Archivist Dashboard. We wrote about this project as it went live over two years ago. NARA Citizen Archivist Dashboard Live!

Want to keep upon the news from this exciting project? If so, consider “liking” its Facebook page.

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