On 27 September, 2004, a special ceremony was held at Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site, commemorating the completion of the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database (CWSS). This online, searchable database contains 6.3 million names of Civil War veterans, both Union and Confederate. In case you’ve never used this database, it’s a dandy. You can [...]
I’ve always loved maps. In fact, one of my prize possessions is an historic Missouri map, printed when Oklahoma was still called Indian Territory. The map hangs in my office, not far from the pile of gazetteers stacked on my desk. Maps are invaluable to genealogists; not only do they help track boundary changes and [...]
In going through my aunt and uncle’s book collection, I rescued a copy of Annals of Platte County, Missouri, published in 1897. Subtitled From Its Exploration Down to June 1, 1897: With Genealogies of Its Noted Families, and Sketches of Its Pioneers and Distinguished People, the book was a gem of a find. In case [...]
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