Our Military Heritage – An Update

You are probably familiar with the fantastic genealogical collection at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana. What you might not be familiar with is their growing collection of databases available on their website. One section of the website is “Our Military Heritage,” which is a collection of digitized books, photographs, letters, diaries……

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Tombstone Tuesday: Friendship, Love and Truth

This tombstone for George H. Boggs is in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Newark, Licking County, Ohio. It shows membership in two organizations: the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Grand Army of the Republic. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) was founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1819. It is also referred to as the…

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Waymarking the Revolution

I haven’t written very much lately about Waymarking. Here’s a brief recap: Waymarking is a game played with GPS units. Basically, you find places that fit into certain categories, take some photos, record the coordinates and post it on Waymarking.com. There are categories ranging from National Register of Historic Places to McDonald’s. Many of the…

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More military resources

From the latest issue of Genealogy Gems, published by the Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne: In the “Our Military Heritage” portion of GenealogyCenter.info are the following new resources: Civil War: —Abstract of General Orders and Proceedings of the 26th Annual Encampment, Department of New York, G.A.R. [Grand Army of…

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