Recent Posts Tagged With 'military'

• DAR Databases Now Available Online

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 20:00 in military

  From the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution:After nearly a decade of scanning, indexing, and other behind-the-scenes work by DAR members and employees, the Daughters of the American Revolution is pleased to announce the availabilit...

• Memorial Day Posts

  Posted on Saturday May 23rd, 2009 at 18:19 in military

  This weekend, I planning to clean, decorate, and photograph the graves of my husband's and my family members buried in local cemeteries (there aren't many). I also take the extra flowers from the bouquet of roses I bring and place them on a few Civi...

• Revolutionary War Veteran Finally to Get Military Honors -- 160 Years After His Death

  Posted on Thursday April 9th, 2009 at 20:39 in michigan, military

  From the Flint (Michigan) Journal:RICHFIELD TOWNSHIP, Michigan -- As a 70-something-year-old man, Nathaniel Blackmer Sr. still was trying to prove that he served in the American Revolutionary War -- even traveling to Ohio for testimony from a fellow ...

• "Confederate Pensions Databases" Post Updated

  Posted on Wednesday February 18th, 2009 at 00:13 in military

  A year ago, I posted "Confederate Pensions Databases" on this blog. With the addition of Ancestry's new database, "Georgia, Confederate Pensions Applications, 1879 - 1960," I thought I would check to see if there was any additional information or co...