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Genealogy Tips: Researching Military Ancestors

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on November 11, 2024

In this article – to celebrate Veterans Day – Gena Philibert-Ortega gives helpful tips for those researching their veteran ancestors... (Read More)

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Genealogy Puzzle: Why a Wallet-Sized Honorable Discharge?

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on July 10, 2024

In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega found a wallet-sized WWII discharge certificate in an antique shop, and did some research to learn more... (Read More)

Illustration: “The March of Time,” by Henry Sandham, 1896. This painting shows a parade of veterans of the U.S. Civil War during Decoration Day. General William Tecumseh Sherman is in the front row at the far right. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Memorial Day: GAR Civil War Vets (part 3)

By Melissa Berry on May 23, 2024

In this third of a three-part series, Melissa Davenport Berry looks back over the years at Memorial Day services involving Union veterans of the Civil War... (Read More)

Memorial Day: GAR Civil War Vets (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on May 22, 2024

In this second of a three-part series, Melissa Davenport Berry looks back over the years at Memorial Day services involving Union veterans of the Civil War... (Read More)

Memorial Day: GAR Civil War Vets (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on May 21, 2024

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry looks back over the years at Memorial Day services involving Union veterans of the Civil War... (Read More)

Photo: a “Talking Letter” from Eugene Daly during WWII, February 1945. Courtesy of Portraits of War.

Christmas Letters (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on December 22, 2023

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry shares “talking letters” families sent to their loved ones serving overseas... (Read More)

Photo: Gilbert “Gibby” Wyer in 1989, the year before he died. Courtesy of the Nantucket Historical Association.

Christmas Letters (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on December 19, 2023

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry shares a Christmas letter written by a WWII soldier stationed in North Africa in 1942... (Read More)

Photo: gravestone for Albert D. J. Cashier at Sunny Slope Cemetery in Saunemin, Livingston County, Illinois. Cashier was buried with full military honors. Credit: Nancy, Doug, and Linda Bell of Illinois.

Female Civil War Soldier Served as a Man (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on November 17, 2023

Melissa Davenport Berry gives more details of the remarkable story of Albert Cashier, a woman who fought 40 battles in the Civil War disguised as a man!.. (Read More)

Photo: Civil War soldier Albert Cashier. Credit: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum; Wikimedia Commons.

Female Civil War Soldier Served as a Man (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on November 14, 2023

Melissa Davenport Berry tells the remarkable story of Albert Cashier, a woman who fought 40 battles in the Civil War disguised as a man!.. (Read More)

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