Chapters: ORGANIZING YOUR RESEARCH AND MATERIALS --- OBTAINING THE MATERIALS --- IDENTIFYING THE REGIMENT --- CHRONOLOGY AND ARMYSTRUCTURE --- HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES , LIBRARIES ANDOTHER ARCHIVES --- HISTORIC SITES , PARKS , AND BATTLEFIELDS --- NATIONAL ARCHIVES --- OTHER MAJOR COLLECTIONS --- INTERNET WEBSITES --- GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC --- BOOKS --- NEWSPAPERS --- DEALERS , RETAILERS , AND AUCTIONS --- REENACTMENTS AND SHOWS
Appendices include sources for rosters, a chronology of battles, a chart of the regimental organization, state archives, historical and genealogical organizations, other museums,libraries, and collections of interest.
Seeing ancestors in historical context -- Creating a timeline -- Why did they leave? -- How did they go? -- Coming to America -- Myths, confusions, secrets and lies -- Even harder to find missing persons -- Social history and community genealogy -- State by state -- And region by region.
Summary
History lays the foundation to understand a group of people. Genealogy lays the foundation to understand a person or family using tangible historic evidence.
Maps in genealogical research -- Finding information about places -- Determining boundaries and jurisdictions -- The secrets of map reading -- Topographic maps -- Land division and county maps and atlases -- Migration trails across America -- Military maps -- Fire insurance and other urban maps -- Using global positioning systems.
Includes information on the types of cemeteries in the United States, as well as how to do research in and about them (includes information on photographing and rubbing tombstones)
The source: a guidebook of American genealogy -- The library: a guide to the LDS family history library -- The Library of Congress: A guide to genealogical & historical research -- Ancestry's Red book: American state, country & town sources -- The archives: a guide to the national archives field branches -- US military records: a guide to federal & state sources -- Guide to genealogical research in the national archives -- The twentieth century biographical dictionary of notable Americans -- Herringshaw's encyclopedia of American biography of the 19th century -- Historical register of officers of the Cnitinental Army -- Biographical directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 -- Daughters of American, or women of the century -- The biographical cyclopaedia of American women -- Plymouth Colony, its history and people, 1620-1691 -- American biographical notes.
