Month: December 2020

Cemeteries and Serendipity

This past Halloween, our Genealogy Tea and Sympathy program covered Cemeteries and Serendipity. As part of this virtual session, we talked about various aspects of cemetery research: Cemetery name changes over time, available records, affordable marking, genealogy stories, helpful books, and online databases. As a companion piece to the Tea, …

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Veteran Service Records at the National Archives

By: Bill Burchfield, MSLS, Kentucky Historical Society Librarian At a recent Tea & Sympathy, we discussed military records in genealogy research.  This video expands this discussion.  In it we will examine various types of military records available from the National Archives and Records Administration and the National Personnel Records Center.  …

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