as it happens, there are two repositories of Mass. BMD records at Columbia Point: the Mass Archives and the Registry of Vital Records ( Read more... )

to restate the research problem at hand: when did William H White transfer from I/32d MVI to F/11th VRC? which would be a whole lot easier if I had his pension file but ( Read more... )

we can exclude malaria contracted during the Peninsula Campaign as the cause of WHW moving from I/32d MVI to F/11th VRC
according to the unit history(The Story of the 32d Massachusetts Infantry by [Col.] Francis J Parker; Boston:1880 CW Calkins), the regiment's 3d battalion (Cos I-M) was forming in Lynnfield while the other 8 companies were on the ( Read more... )

to remind the reader: Mass Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines of the Civil War has him discharged from the 11th [Regiment] Veteran's Reserve Corps in Dec 1864 but has no date for his transfer from Co I, 32d Mass Volunteer Infantry ( Read more... )

Let's not even try to parse why they're hers and not William H's ( Read more... )

according to a city directory, she's living next door to her youngest son Clarence in Linden, Mass. in 1897 but by the 1900 Census she has moved in with daughter Henrietta's family (also in Malden) and still lives with them in 1902 (according to city directory; BTW she's listed as 'boards' in the 1902 directory). George Small (Lucy's son in law) is ( Read more... )

I know his name and that he married a Lydia HUrd from his son's (my 3x great grandfather) death cert ( Read more... )

I just found my 2x great grandfather's house on a 1863 map of Prince Edward Island. Since the house is identified as B Baker, I am inferring that his father, James T, is dead or otherwise off the scene by this time. I know he marries my great grandmother (who may be the niece of his next neighbor) w/in two years and they produce my great ( Read more... )

While looking for the wife of one of my great grandfather's brothers, I came across: Matilda Lescarabeau, born in French Canada approximately 1861, who, widowed, in two census is boarding apparent orphans (1920 two boys: one 5 years, 6 months; the other 1 year, 7 months; in 1910: two girls: one 2 y.o.; the other, 7 months). I am interpreting the ( Read more... )

on the Bureau of Land Management's General Land Office website (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/default.aspx) I'm seeing assorted McKameys filing military land warrants in Callaway County, Mo. during the 1850s ( Read more... )