Newspapers!
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.
The War of the Roses
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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