Looking Back In Time
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Is there a question about your family's past you want help answering? Could there be a military hero you don't know about? Could there be an abolitionist from the North or maybe a plantation owner from the South in your past? Did your family arrive recently or have they been here for hundreds of years? Looking Back in Time can help search for the answers to those and other intriguing questions. Ju
09/01/2017
FEMA & Smithsonian Institution Archives have come together to help natural disaster victims save their family archives, photos and keepsakes in wake of
Heritage Emergency National Task Force | FEMA.gov FEMA and the Smithsonian Institution cosponsor the Heritage Emergency National Task Force, a partnership of 42 national service organizations and federal agencies created to protect cultural heritage from the damaging effects of natural disasters and other emergencies.
08/23/2016
Huntington Library sets out to decode thousands of Civil War telegrams hidden for a century: 'It's mind-boggling' They ticked out news of typhoid, scurvy and fear. They spoke of long marches and vast battles. They hummed with frailty and humor, fretting over drunken soldiers and praising the unwavering president of a fraying republic. They clacked in broken rhythms that rang with the ominous: “We will not rema...
06/23/2016
Terminology is everything.
The Difference Between Second Cousins And Cousins Once Removed Remembering the difference between a “second cousin” and a “cousin once removed” is one of those facts that I have filed in my brain as non-essential. Therefore, I think I know the difference, but then I get fuzzy on the details. Luckily I now have a handy chart to bookmark
05/09/2016
Where did your ancestors live? Curious? Contact lookingbackintime.webs.com and begin your search.
04/19/2016
Revolutionary War sites compile lists of American soldiers ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Kent Keyser was surprised to learn a historian at a Revolutionary War battle site knows the name of his ancestor, a private from Virginia who participated in a daring nighttime attack. [...] Michael Sheehan, of New York's Stony Point Battlefield State Historic Site, is quite fami…
02/27/2016
Everyday more digital resources! https://twitter.com/lienhart85/status/703377263018926080
Century Past History on Twitter “Sarokin collection of 2,680 Ancestry & Genealogy works on HathiTrust, online https://t.co/lRF0IXZKsx”
01/22/2016
Kinship terminology: How we refer to our family relationships Why Einstein moved on to general relativityIsn't it exciting to find out you have a famous historical icon in the far-off depths of your family tree? But when you brag to your friends, what do you call this famous ancestor? "Thomas Edison is the great-uncle of my great-great-grandfather's third cou.…
01/08/2016
A new way to "preserve" your heritage? Pretty cool none-the-less.
See Your DNA Visualized on a Colorful, Patterned Scarf Since the advent of direct-to-consumer personal genome tests like 23andMe, it’s simpler than ever to access information about your individual DNA sequence — that 0.1% of genetic coding that d…
12/14/2015
About time!
1.5 Million Slavery Era Documents Will Be Digitized, Helping African Americans to Learn About... The Freedmen’s Bureau Project will make available online 1.5 million historical documents, finally allowing ancestors of former African-American slaves to learn more about their family roots.
11/03/2015
Very cool! Definitely a way to get kids engaged with history using technology they already have.
This App Makes Your Phone Buzz At A Certain Kind Of Historical Site When using the app you're alerted when you're approaching the exact location.
10/29/2015
No more counting on your fingers! Our friends at Fold3 created this nifty cheat sheet to help determine who among your U.S. ancestors may have served in conflicts throughout our nation's history.
Search among more than 100 million records of U.S. draft, enlistment, pension, and military service in the Card Catalog here: http://ancstry.me/1PehDHt
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