In honor of Veterans’ Day, here are some websites that may help you with genealogy research for ancestors who served in the military. https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/soldiers-and-sailors-database.htm – Database of Civil War soldiers and sailors www.thewall-usa.com/index.asp#search – Listing of those killed in Vietnam who are included on the
The Historical Association of Lewiston will present a program “The Civil War in Western New York” on Thursday, Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. at the Lutheran Church of the Messiah Fellowship Hall in Lewiston. The speaker, Steve Teeft, will review the many ways that New
The genealogy database Fold3.com recently added records for the Bath National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. This collection has indexes and registers for Bath as well as a death index for the years 1879-1903. This was a home, funded by Congress, for soldiers and sailors
Huntingon (Suffolk County) resident Robert Farrell was recently featured in a “Newsday” cover story – “Civil War Roll Call” – for his work on researching New York Civil War soliders and sailors. Farrell has spent 20 years trying to locate every Civil War solider and
A plaque, honoring 135 “forgotten patriots” of the town of Warwick who served in General John Hathorn’s regiment during the Revolutionary War, will be dedicated at Warwick Town Hall on Wednesday, Nov. 29, at 6 p.m. In 2006, a plaque was installed by the Heritage
