From Muster Rolls to Moving Stories
Can AI help tell an ancestor’s story? I combined Noah W. Briles’ Civil War military record with research on the 1st Iowa Cavalry to create… Read More »From Muster Rolls to Moving Stories
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When an AI Search Leads to a New Genealogy source
Can AI help uncover new genealogy sources? A few prompts in Google Gemini about Civil War ancestor Noah Briles led me to an unexpected pension… Read More »When an AI Search Leads to a New Genealogy source
Why Did Albert Hutchinson Desert?
Did Albert Hutchinson Desert for Family or for the Harvest? One of the things I enjoy about using artificial intelligence tools with genealogy is that… Read More »Why Did Albert Hutchinson Desert?
The Paper Trail of Albert Hutchinson’s Civil War Service
One of the challenges of family history research is moving beyond names and dates to better understand an ancestor’s life experiences. Military records can be… Read More »The Paper Trail of Albert Hutchinson’s Civil War Service
Richmond Hammond’s Civil War Service
When researching our ancestors, we sometimes uncover stories that don’t quite make sense at first glance. That was the case when I began digging into… Read More »Richmond Hammond’s Civil War Service
When Records Begin to Speak
From cavalry soldier to prisoner of war: a new video uses a Google Notebook LM audio overview to explore how imprisonment affected the health of… Read More »When Records Begin to Speak
From Enlistment to Andersonville
The Military and POW Timeline of Washington Marion Crawford When we read a Civil War pension file or compiled military service record page by page,… Read More »From Enlistment to Andersonville
From Rapidan to Andersonville
This biography of Washington Marion Crawford was reconstructed from careful transcriptions of his compiled military service record and his Civil War pension file. Rather than… Read More »From Rapidan to Andersonville
Muster Rolls
Do you have ancestors who served in the Civil War? If so, were any of them called to defend their own state from invasion? When… Read More »Muster Rolls
Veteran’s Day
Today is veteran’s day. In honor of all who have served, today’s post is going to highlight some of my previous posts about veterans. Last… Read More »Veteran’s Day