your local library may have heritage quest online or NARA has a database online -- http://aad.archives.gov/aad/ you can get military indexes at ancestry.com til 31 May or civil war here- http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0 Lois Rich Nichols wrote: >Hi Donna, > >Again - ancestry.com comes to the rescue. Although this is a great >service - there are so many who cannot afford ancestry's fees/dues. At the >Archives - if the documents were microfilmed - you just had to pay for >copies. True, copies of original documents have become costly, so it now >becomes a catch 22 situation. Whether to pay dues to ancestry with no hope >of knowing if your ancestors records were even in the Archives or not. With >the LDS putting their records online and ancestry partnering with National >Archives - maybe this truly does become a win win for us family researchers. > >BTW - to all - the British National Archives will furnish copies of >documents for a relatively inexpensive charge - mostly 3.50 British pounds. >That beats the cost of an airline trip over the pond. Keep in mind that >many records about Irish nationals are in the Brit Archives. There is a >search engine and you can just plug in a name. There are many early >military and WWI records as well as other genealogical records to be >searched. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ I found and received my wife's 4th >great grandfather's military records - which showed that he was born c 1763 >in Wick, Scotland. One of the units he served spent ten years in Ireland >and three of his children were born in Ireland - we just don't know where. > >Rich in SC >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Donna K. Vaughn" <dkvaughn@nycap.rr.com> >To: <ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 7:06 AM >Subject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Ancestry.com to pair with the >NationalArchives > > > > >>http://www.examiner.com/a-1401746~Ancestry_com_partners_with_National_Archives.html >>===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== >>Did you pay your 2008 Dues? >>Troy Irish Genealogy Society >>http://www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >>without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> > > >===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== >Did you pay your 2008 Dues? >Troy Irish Genealogy Society >http://www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >