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Hello, all!
I'm always amazed by how knowledgeable and helpful our group is on the Ancestry forum, and I want to thank all of you for your contributions this year--whether it's posting wonderful threads or providing helpful responses to questions or adding thoughtful/thought-provoking discussion.
To choose the top 10 threads, I went with the ones with the most positive reactions to the first post and weeded out the one random administrative one that met that criteria.
And to that end, here's our top 10:
My Great Great Grandparents' House Burned by Union Army NW Alabama | Researching Civil War Records & Ancestry
For those who have heard this before, bear with me. I'm going to tell the story here again because I just found a newspaper article that confirms the approximate date that my great great grandparents' house was burned by Union forces in NW Alabama. When we were kids, my sister and I sat in the...
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Brass Napoleon Award Who Here At CWT Shouldn't Be? " There But For The Grace.... Go I " | Researching Your Civil War Ancestry
Stories of how Civil War ancestors got lucky, made choices, and survived circumstances that might have radically impacted their family tree.
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Daniel Blackburn: Free after 77 Years (Germanton, Stokes County, NC) | Researching Civil War Records & Ancestry
Daniel Blackburn: Slave to Freeman after 77 years When I’m digging through records, sometimes I run across something that grabs my attention and demands further investigation. Some of these things just get to you, you know? And when you are able to locate the pieces and put them together, then...
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A wonderful day | Researching Civil War Records & Ancestry
Long story short, I was able to make contact with a distant cousin who I discovered via Ancestry and it turns out that his mother had kept a family bible with pictures and a photo album. In the bible, there are photos of one set of great grandparents (one being one of my Confederate ancestors...
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"My Dear & Affectonate Little Son" | Researching Your Civil War Ancestry
Confederate Private Alexander Bailus West married my 4 x 1st cousin, Nancy Land in Wilkes County, NC; Feb.4, 1857. On November 26, 1858, their son, Thomas Harvey West was born. Alex mustered into Company K 53rd NC Infantry on 4/30/1862. His Captain and 1st Lieutenant were his cousins, William...
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The Lost Town of Princeton, NC & Historic Land Ownership of Princeton Plantation - Northampton County, North Carolina | Researching Civil War Records & Ancestry
"Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, and by authority thereof... That the said one hundred acres of land be, and is hereby constituted and established a town, and shall be called by the name of Princeton." The original town of Princeton, NC was incorporated...
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First Yankee relative | Researching Civil War Records & Ancestry
Well, I have just discovered that the brother of my great great grandmother, Augustus Jacob Moonert, was a Second Lieutenant in the 5th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. I don't have his service record yet but that unit saw some serious action. So I suppose I'm not 100% CSA lineage after all. :eek...
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Captain P.M. Hope letter to his daughter Annie | Researching Civil War Records & Ancestry
Seven months before the Battle of Franklin, Captain Pleasant M. Hope wrote this letter to his infant daughter whom he had never seen. He told his baby girl that this is "... the first letter you ever received." ______________________ Camp Cummings near Mobile, Ala. Apr. 25, 1864 Dear Child...
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Raccoon Ford, Virginia in the Civil War | Researching Civil War Records & Ancestry
Artist Alfred R. Waud sketched this scene, which was published in Harper's Weekly October 3, 1863 under title "The Army of the Potomac - General Buford Attacking the Enemy at Raccoon Ford September 14, 1863." But Raccoon Ford was a pretty busy place all during the Civil War. Both Armies crossed...
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What did your family call The War? | Researching Civil War Records & Ancestry
When I was a child and someone said The War I knew they meant the Civil War. Every other conflict was named but that was simply The War. Because my Southern family lived in the North we jokingly called it the War of Northern Aggression to Yankee friends but never among ourselves. At school of...
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