Wink Mahoney and his committee are searching out all veterans in the Georgetown area.
Mahoney and five other Georgetown [Vermilion Co., Illinois] residents are gathering names of veterans of all wars except World War II for an all-other-wars memorial that will be constructed in the town’s square.
“The primary purpose is to honor the people from Georgetown […]
This week, my friend Illya D’ Addezio, added 358 images to his Registry of War Ration Books. Included in this batch are 40 Canadian ration books, and three books from Native Americans living on a reservation in upstate New York.
Following are surnames found in the new items:
ALLISON
ANDERSON
ANNAND
AUSTIN
BALLENT
BARRONER
BECK
BENNEDSEN
BLACK
BONSALL
BROWN
BRUCE
BUQUO
CAMPBELL
CARPENTER
CHANNELL
CLARK
COLLINGS
COLLINS
COOPER
CURRAN
CUSTER
DALEY
DEMKO
EAGLE
ELLIOTT
ELLIS
ELLWOOD
EVANS
FISH
FOLEY
FORNEY
FRAZIER
GATES
GAUVIN
GIPPLE
GRANT
GRIFFIN
HARMS
HARWOOD
HEATH
HENSON
HIELAND
HINCKS
HOLMAN
HORST
HUDSON
JOHNSON
JOHNSTON
KEATHLEY
KNIFFLIN
KNUTSON
KOCH
LANDON
LEWIS
LINDSTROM
LITZ
MCLAGREN
MEYERS
MILLER
MUNDY
MURRAY
NELSON
NESTOR
NICHOLS
OHMAN
OLSON
OTT
PARISEN
PEARCE
PETERSEN
POWERS
PRATHER
PRESSLEY
REDMOND
RIDDLE
RUSNAK
SAHMS
SCHEMPEK
SCHILLING
SCHOTTELKOTTE
SHOREY
SING
SMITH
SPINNEY
SPRINKEL
STEGMAN
SUCK
SUNDOWN
SURRETTE
THOMPSON
TOULOUSE
TYNER
WALKER
WARK
WILLEY
WILSON
WINDHAM
WOLCOTT
YARBER
YOUNG
YUNG
To view the images, visit the Index of Ration […]
Mary Penner writes the following questions in her column this week. Next week she plans to deal with the records created by the war. Enjoy…
How about a round of “Name That War?” Here are the clues:
Some of America’s sweetest victories were at sea even though at the outset of the war our Navy had only […]
I spent a few minutes this morning watching memorial events taking place in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. I’m sure millions of Americans were doing the same thing, and remembering…
I can remember sitting at my computer five years ago, writing an editorial that I had to rewrite a few days later - after […]
New Book Announcement:
This work was transcribed from records of the British Admiralty pertaining to American prisoners of war held at Halifax, Nova Scotia, from June 1812 to April 1815. The internment facility was on the Northwest Arm of Halifax Harbor. The unmarked graves of 195 who died as prisoners are located there. Those interned included […]
New Book Announcement:
Although the oldest regiment in the British Army is the 1st Royal regiment of Foot, usually known as the Royal Scots, it was not until the French and Indian War (known in Europe as the Seven Years War) that Scottish regiments played a significant role in the Army. In fact, between 1756 and […]
Nearly all the adult male settlers of Kentucky had seen service in the Revolutionary War, and this was especially true of the settlers from Virginia, many of whom had been granted bounty lands in Kentucky for their Revolutionary services.
In addition to a roll of the officers of the Virginia Line who received land bounties in […]
The Veteran’s Administration Nationwide Gravesite Locator online database is a wonderful resource for genealogists. With a few keystrokes you can locate graves for all kinds of family members - and now get a cemetery map to go with it. My cousin, Elmore Meitzler, and his wife, Doris, are buried in the Fort Custer National […]