Revolutionary War Ancestry: Our Top 6 How-to Posts

With the Fourth of July approaching, America prepares to celebrate Independence Day – and genealogists’ thoughts turn to their Revolutionary War ancestry. There are many good sources of information about this crucial period in American history, including historical newspaper archives, museums, and various Revolutionary War and military websites that can tell you about the times your ancestors lived in, the roles they played, and details of their individual lives.

This blog post highlights some of the past articles we’ve published on the GenealogyBank Blog about researching Revolutionary War ancestors. Just click on the title of any article that interests you to read the full blog post. Also, please note that in addition to the 27 Colonial newspapers listed in the graphic below, we just added 450+ newspaper titles from the 1700s and 1800s to GenealogyBank’s archives, creating one of the most comprehensive online resources for researching your Colonial and Revolutionary period ancestry on the web.

• 27 Colonial Newspapers to Trace Your Early American Ancestry

• Tracing Your Colonial & Revolutionary Ancestry in Newspapers

• Top 7 Websites for Revolutionary War Genealogy

• Where Was George Washington? Revolutionary War Fact Checking

• Revolutionary War Ancestors’ Life Stories Are in Old Newspapers

• Revolutionary War’s Forgotten Patriots Remembered in Newspapers

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• Revolutionary War Genealogy (GenealogyBank Pinterest Board)
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• Genealogy Research with Military Records in Newspapers