Civil War
Getting Back to Some Hard Genealogy
It took a near-disaster in the form of a hard disk failure to bring me back to doing some basic genealogy. I took me a week to recover and reassemble my files, which had been backed up onto three different systems. The redundancy was a fortunate thing born out of some lethargy in organization. As a fortuitous happenstance, I lost …
October 5, 2011 Wednesday at 5:26 pm
General Orders No. 11, Grand Army of the Republic
General Orders No. 11, Grand Army of the Republic Headquarters. I. The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village and hamlet churchyard in the …
May 29, 2011 Sunday at 2:30 pm
25 Great Books on the Civil War Era–FREE!
Here are 25 books on the Civil War era with perspectives you can’t find anywhere else. They are postbellum 19th century and early 20th century products. And they’re all free Google e-books! 1. Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps (United States Navy Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1853) 2. Numbers And Losses in …
April 2, 2011 Saturday at 9:02 pm
Today is Kansas Day
Today, the State of Kansas marks its 150th anniversary of statehood. Modern pop culture regards Kansas as quiet, flat, ordinary, and even boring; alternatively it’s portrayed as an idyllic land of sunflower fields. But neither depiction reflects the reality of historical Kansas. Statehood did not come easy to Kansas. In the 1850′s, Kansas was the kindling ground that became a …
January 29, 2011 Saturday at 3:40 pm
Kudos: Michael Hait
Our motto here at GeneaBlogie is Learn, Share, Enjoy, Appreciate! And we also say give credit where credit is due. So at the head of this year’s honors list for achievement in the field of genealogical writing, we recognize Michael Hait. Michael writes for Examiner.com as the national African-American Genealogical Examiner. His highly readable posts are rich in information. There …
December 6, 2010 Monday at 8:33 pm
Georgia Digital Library Now Provides Access to Atlanta Historical Newspapers
The following information was provided by the Digital Library of Georgia last week: A new digital database providing online access to 14 newspaper titles published in Atlanta from 1847 to 1922 is now available through the Digital Library of Georgia, housed at The University of Georgia Libraries. The Atlanta Historic Newspapers Archive (http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/atlnewspapers) consists of more than 67,000 newspaper pages …
April 10, 2010 Saturday at 5:57 pm
“Restore My Name:” The First Edition of the Carnival of African-American Genealogy
Luckie Daniels, proprietor of Our Georgia Roots, a tenacious researcher and tech expert, has taken on the hosting of the first edition of the Carnival of African-American Genealogy. The theme for the first edition concerns slave research. Participants are asked to answer one or more of the following questions: What responsibilities are involved on the part of the researcher when …
March 18, 2010 Thursday at 10:54 am
How Grandpa Zeke Collected a Bounty on Himself
My great-great-grandfather Ezekiel Johnson collected a bounty for turning himself into the federal government in 1864. Actually, so did a lot of other folks earn such bounties. Zeke Johnson was held as a slave in Clay County, Missouri, fro the day he was born in 1847 until one day in May, 1864, when he was 17 years old. That day …
July 14, 2009 Tuesday at 8:44 pm
Carnival of Genealogy: A Tribute to Women
The Carnival is now posted at Jasia’s Creative Gene. There are 31 outstanding selections from both veteran and nedwcomer genea-bloggers. You won’t find my contribution there; I simply ran out of time. But had I had the time, I would have written about Mary Elizabeth Bowser. A Central Intelligence Agency paper tells her story as one of the least-known, but …
March 18, 2009 Wednesday at 6:00 pm
