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Soul of a People: the WPA’s Federal Writers Project

From 27 October through 31 October 2010, the 44th Annual Meeting of the Oral History Association met in Atlanta, Georgia. Read an account of the...

GenealogyBank -- a subscription site featuring many historic newspapers and other historic documents -- has announced the expansion of their...

When the U. S. Congress amended its laws concerning Union troop enrollment in 1864, a new clause required that, when a slave of a loyal master...

Today, 19 July 2010, Lowcountry Africana and Footnote.com announce a partnership to provide free digital images of South Carolina estate...

Family Bibles hold a unique position among genealogical record groups.They are not official records created for use outside of the family.This...

The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands was created by an Act of Congress on 3 March 1865.The Bureau’s domain was “the...

On 3 October 1863, the War Department issued General Order No. 329 as a means to facilitate recruitment into the U. S. Colored Troops.This order...

This column previously addressed the importance of the 1870 U. S. census in African-American research.As noted in that article, this was the first...

Once again, this column will discuss information found in Civil War pension application files.We previously explored the deposition of a former...

Recently, this column discussed Civil War pension application files, and the depth of their value as a genealogical resource.Amy Coffin, of the...