Home Movie Day!

Saturday 15 October 2011 is Home Movie Day! For more information visit their web site at:
homemovieday.com

Family History Month

Old Photograph

I found this picture among my grandmother’s photographs that I inherited. There is no information on the back of the picture. No one in my family knows who this person is and I have never seen this picture before.
Does anybody know what kind of uniform this is? I have searched the internet and found nothing.  My family was from Indiana and Kansas, if this is any help.

Almost Done!

Almost done the American Genealogy home study course! I'd be done sooner if I can just get pass this one assignment. I have to do a narrative report on an ancestors "compiled service record". I received a copy of my ancestors civil war records from the National Archives, there are quite a few papers but they mostly have the same information. My report "should be complete enough that it could serve as a substitute for the photocopied document" it sounds easy enough.......

Emotions running high in cemetery land dispute

The Shuler family is one of the founding families of the cemetery, and they are upset that a neighbor bought the land from the church that oversaw it.
Read the story: Emotions run high

McRae/Anderson Genealogy: Tombstone Tuesday - There's More Than Meets The Ey...

New Genealogy Blog:
McRae/Anderson Genealogy: Tombstone Tuesday - There's More Than Meets The Ey...: "The city of Brockton, Massachusetts has many cemeteries and if I look around hard enough, I can probably find someone of relation in each on..."

National Digital Newspaper Program

The Library of Congress has announced that it recently added 230,000 pages to its digital newspaper archives. The project includes some newspapers from 1860-1922, 22 states plus the District of Columbia. These newspaper pages can be searched, clipped, or downloaded to your computer.
http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/