In 1902 the Times-Picayune newspaper ran this large ad on the front page of their 28 February issue. This was the start of a regular feature – the “Confederate Column” – designed: to tell of men whose acts of individual heroism do not figure in battle reports…[and] to set in strong light the genius... (Read More)
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Newspapers routinely published the list of passengers on board ships bound to and from America. Here are just a few examples of the thousands of passenger lists published in newspapers that can be found in GenealogyBank. Newspapers published not just lists of immigrants coming to America but also regularly published passenger lists of American’s... (Read More)