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Serving with Lincoln: Finding Your Ancestor’s Indian War Military Service in Pension Files

On the morning of February 11, 1861, the president-elect and future commander-in-chief, Abraham Lincoln, left Springfield for his journey to Washington DC.…

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Finding African American Ancestors in the 1850 Mortality Schedules

Nelly Harby was seventy-five when she died in November of 1849 in Charleston, South Carolina. Her death was recorded by Assistant Marshall…

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