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Relic (noun) 1. a surviving memorial of the past. 2. an object having interest by reason of its age or its association with the past. 3. a surviving trace of something. 4.remaining parts or fragments. 5. the remains of a deceased person.

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- July 11, 2024

It's been more than a minute since I have posted! I wanted to share an important tool for researching your family! Newspapers. Here is our latest podcast discussing just that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDfPCXrZCdo

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Susan Schuler 2015

Relicsfamilyhistory: Librarian specializing in genealogy and family history research. I have been researching my own family and their place in New York's Hudson Valley for close to twenty years. I love a good mystery.

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Alacrity: brisk and cheerful readiness. I have never given much thought at all to my family's ancestors in context to the Civil War. I was always a History buff throughout school, but growing up in New York's Hudson Valley, my focus was squarely on finding my Revolutionary War ancestors. Most of what I know about the Civil War is straight out of Little Women. I was surprised recently to discover at least four ancestors (I can confirm) are in deed veterans of the Civil War. And looking over my timelines I am pretty confident there are more. I finally got around to joining the Orange County Genealogy Society and while perusing their website I discovered the treasure trove of publications they have for sale. This is very fortunate for me, as I now live in FL and feel so isolated and cut off from the Rockland Room collection at the New City Library. It is this collection that really got me started in genealogy. From the OCGS, I ordered Monroe, Orange County, NY 18

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- December 31, 2017

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31 Days to Better Genealogy
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ancestral travel
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