Category Archives: Military

Today, 18 June 2012, marks the bicentennial of the War of 1812.  Two hundred years ago America was once again at war with Britain in what some refer to as our “second war of independence.”  In honor of all War of 1812 patriots, I thought […]

Back in April I wrote Are You Up for the Challenge? discussing the project that FGS is working on to digitize the War of 1812 pension files. In that post I reported that Indiana Genealogical Society stated a matching program where they will match contributions […]

Ancestry has a new collection, just in time for the 4th of July.  You can now search the Sons of the American Revolution applications, which are indexed by all of the names found in the lineage of the application.

In my last post, Are you Good At Reading Bad Handwriting, I asked for some assistance in deciphering a pension application.  With the help of some great genealogy friends (Randy Seaver, Darlene Sorenson Bittaker, and Kimberly J. Sawtelle), I was able to fill in most […]

I am working on transcribing the pension application for Solomon Naughton/Norton, Revolutionary War soldier.  There are about 20 words across 5 pages that I am having some trouble with.  If anyone would like to try to decipher these words, I’d appreciate the help.  All of […]

As many of you know, the Federation of Genealogical Societies is working to raise money in order to digitize the War of 1812 pensions.  The goal is to raise $3.7 million and to have the digitization of records completed in 2015. You can help by […]

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve learned or found.

In honor of Independence Day, I thought I’d write a post about my ancestors who are Revolutionary War patriots.