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- Jul 21, 2015
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Today was a fun day. Last night I was scrolling through my bookmarks and saw something I had forgotten about. 5 years ago,when I was still new to this, I posted on my Facebook page about what I had found in my Civil War research on my ancestor on my mother's side in the 6th Florida Infantry. For some reason I bookmarked that and I think it's because of a reply I got. One of my mother's cousins who lives in Pensacola has done quite bit of genealogical research on our common family. One of his replies had some information that I must have overlooked or just didn't know what I didn't know. At that time everything I knew came from Ancestry and the National Archives. I didn't know fold3 existed or about the NPS database. I was a very new member of this forum at that time too.
As to the relative who posted that in my FB thread. His father and my mother's mother were siblings which I guess makes him my second cousin. We were both probably teenagers the last time we saw each other. In the message,he mentioned that his GG Grandfather,James Michael Bishop, fought with the 2nd Florida Cavalry(US). I don't think it clicked at the time that he was my GGG Grandfather. It clicked last night but it was late and I was on my cellphone. It's easier searching fold3, Ancestry and NPS on a desktop.
I did it today and found a lot of stuff. The first hurdle was that my second cousin had his regiment wrong. The fold3 records for James Michael Bishop say he was in the 1st Florida Cavalry(US), not the 2nd Florida Cavalry(US), and he enlisted on March 15,1864 and mustered out on Nov. 17,1865. There was a Jacob M. Bishop in the 2nd Florida Cavalry(US) in fold3 and he died of typhoid fever in Cedar Key,FLA in September 1864. I cross-checked the regiments on the NPS database and it matched.
More later.
As to the relative who posted that in my FB thread. His father and my mother's mother were siblings which I guess makes him my second cousin. We were both probably teenagers the last time we saw each other. In the message,he mentioned that his GG Grandfather,James Michael Bishop, fought with the 2nd Florida Cavalry(US). I don't think it clicked at the time that he was my GGG Grandfather. It clicked last night but it was late and I was on my cellphone. It's easier searching fold3, Ancestry and NPS on a desktop.
I did it today and found a lot of stuff. The first hurdle was that my second cousin had his regiment wrong. The fold3 records for James Michael Bishop say he was in the 1st Florida Cavalry(US), not the 2nd Florida Cavalry(US), and he enlisted on March 15,1864 and mustered out on Nov. 17,1865. There was a Jacob M. Bishop in the 2nd Florida Cavalry(US) in fold3 and he died of typhoid fever in Cedar Key,FLA in September 1864. I cross-checked the regiments on the NPS database and it matched.
More later.