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    1. Re: [NYORANGE] New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center
    2. Bill & Judy Cuyle
    3. Thanks for this information. We toured the Museum some time ago, but didn't realize they had a web site with genealogy information. At 10:44 AM 5/31/2010, you wrote: >Hello, Listees - > >Just days ago, I found a gem of a website: "New York State Military Museum >and Veterans Research Center". Although still a work in progress, it is >packed with information and images concerning NYS residents who have >served, from the pre-Revolution through Desert Storm. > >* Regimental histories and rosters of members, mostly Civil War - where I >found the book from which the list of the 124th Regiment NY Volunteers >dead at Gettysburg was taken [my G3GF was in this Regiment for three years >as an ambulance driver; he survived, but perhaps saw and handled the dead >listed] > >* Downloadable spreadsheets for "Register of officers whose services >terminated prior to Jan. 1, 1858" > >* A number of online images of Civil War battle flags along with 2 >downloadable posters > >* Online images from various military eras. I like how they say, in a >caption to a 1609 drawing: "New York's first "citizen-soldiers" were >Native American warriors." > >Unfortunately, cutbacks have left them unable to take telephone inquiries, >but they invite people to write them with questions. > >http://dmna.state.ny.us/historic/mil-hist.htm

    05/31/2010 10:19:20