The Value of a search --- The National Archives --- The state of archives --- The OR and ORN --- Your guide to millions of pages --- Personnel files and rosters --- Acquiring and identifying Civil War equipment --- Examples of research --- Appendices :Institutions that hold microfilmed Service records from the national archives --- Source books for regimental histories and rosters --- Sourcebooks for identifying Civil war weapons and accoutrements
You have a story waiting to be told -- Putting together the puzzle of life -- Getting started writing about yourself -- Writing about other people -- Choose a theme and plot -- Stories are always winners -- Becoming comfortable with your family's story -- Life, many stages -- History happens to everyone -- Memories are also made of these -- Optional writing tasks -- Final hurdles to the finished product.
