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Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) – 8 – Using Google
This post is the eighth in a series of posts is about how to locate record the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR). The first post contains information about the GAR. Search terms: grand army of the republic new york My results looked like this: One of the very interesting results was the digitized scrapbook from the E.G. Marshall Post No. 397, Rochester. This page includes the story of the disbanding of the Post by the last surviving member, and the closing of the book. You can download the whole scrapbook from this website. Although your...
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This post is the seventh in a series of posts is about how to locate record the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR). The first post contains information about the GAR. Looking at the USAHEC research bibliography, some of the books the were referenced were out-of-print and might be located at Google books. So I searched Google books books.google.com using the search terms: Grand Army of the Republic The search results showed several of the volumes of the Journal of the National Encampment, Grand Army of the Republic. They also listed the Detroit...
read moreGrand Army of the Republic (GAR) – 6 – Records at USAHEC
This post is the sixth in a series of posts is about how to locate record the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR). The first post contains information about the GAR. If you have seen the other tutorials on this website, you will know that a good way to locate the resources at U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC) is to locate the a finding aid. Start at the Library Guides for USAWC Graduates and All Other Patrons. In the Library Catalog and Digital Collections box, you can search both the Library Catalog and our Digital...
read moreGrand Army of the Republic (GAR) – 5 – Records on Ancestry.com
This post is the fifth in a series of posts is about how to locate record the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR). The first post contains information about the GAR. To use the GAR records on Ancestry.com, start at the Card Catalog. From the Search menu, select Card Catalog. In the Keyword(s) field type: Grand Army of the Republic. Click the Search button. From the results list, you can select an individual database to search. Click on New York, Grand Army of the Republic Records...
read moreGrand Army of the Republic (GAR) – 4 – Records Project of the SUVCW
This post is the fourth in a series of posts is about how to locate record the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR). The first post contains information about the GAR. The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, mentioned in a previous blog post about the GAR, have an ongoing project to populate a database with the locations of available GAR records for every chapter. It is the GAR Records Project. From that page, you can select “Explore the GAR by state”. I clicked on New York. Following the other links on the page led me to some...
read moreGrand Army of the Republic (GAR) – 3 – NY State Archives
This post is the third in a series of posts is about how to locate record the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR). The first post contains information about the GAR. The New York State Archives holds the organizational records of the GAR in New York State. There are fourteen categories of records that a post might have, but the Archives are cautioned that all categories are rarely available for each chapter. We are also told that the focus of these records is the disbandment of posts from the 1920s to 1940s. Since there is no name index, you...
read moreGrand Army of the Republic (GAR) – 2 – The GAR Museum
This post is the second in a series of posts is about how to locate record the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR). The first post contains information about the GAR. The Grand Army of the Republic Museum and Library is located in Philadelphia, PA, and has limited hours of operation. There is a research and archives library available at the museum that advertises over 6,000 books, magazines, pamphlets, newspapers, and original source documents. You must make an appointment to view them. There are Finding aids for the...
read moreGrand Army of the Republic (GAR) – 1 – Background
In this series of blog posts, you will learn where to look for Grand Army of the Republic records. The Grand Army of the Republic was a fraternal organization founded in Founded in Decatur, Illinois on April 6, 1866 by Benjamin F. Stephenson. It was open to Union veterans of the Civil War. The veterans served in the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, Marines and the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service (became the Coast Guard). There were hundreds of posts across the U.S., numbered in sequential order of as they were admitted. The GAR grew powerful politically....
read moreGenealogy Education: BYU Independent Study Courses
Education is a key part of genealogical research. There are many online opportunities. This post will cover the BYU Independent Study Courses. They can be found at: http://is.byu.edu/site/courses/free.cfm. Look for the offerings in the categories within: Family History / Genealogy Some of the courses are several years old, but the information in them is relevant, Succinct, and useful. Because of the changing nature of the Internet, the links may not work. Remember that the records that were difficult to find might now be digitized, and...
read moreAfter Ancestry.com retires Family Tree Maker
By now you may have heard that Ancestry.com is retiring the Family Tree Maker (FTM) software line. Ancestry.com cites the diminishing desktop application market as the reason to retire the software. That can be translated as the software group is not profitable enough for them. If you are like me, you have seen the usefulness of having an online tree at Ancestry.com. You might have searched for new records from the tree. You might have followed the hint leaves. You also might have attached the records and other media (e.g. pictures and...
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