The more things change, the more they stay the same
I came across a large collection of high school and college yearbooks from various states in the US, dated from the 1940s-60s. What interested me more than the yearbooks was...
Category: History
Update on indexing of War of 1812 Pension Files
The War of 1812 Pension Files are now indexed from A-L, and you may search them for free on Fold3 These pension files include full pension application files for soldiers...
This is the face of genealogy
This post is in response to a recent newspaper article about the upcoming So Cal Jamboree, which featured, as it’s “artwork” a hideous picture of two toothless rednecks, along with...
Summertime in Arkansas means War
There are so many awesome events going on this summer around the United States… well, okay, mostly around the South … celebrating the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. My father...
