Looking Back In Time
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Is there a question about your family's past you want help answering? Could there be a military hero you don't know about? Could there be an abolitionist from the North or maybe a plantation owner from the South in your past? Did your family arrive recently or have they been here for hundreds of years? Looking Back in Time can help search for the answers to those and other intriguing questions. Ju
09/01/2017
FEMA & Smithsonian Institution Archives have come together to help natural disaster victims save their family archives, photos and keepsakes in wake of
Heritage Emergency National Task Force | FEMA.gov FEMA and the Smithsonian Institution cosponsor the Heritage Emergency National Task Force, a partnership of 42 national service organizations and federal agencies created to protect cultural heritage from the damaging effects of natural disasters and other emergencies.
04/19/2016
Revolutionary War sites compile lists of American soldiers ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Kent Keyser was surprised to learn a historian at a Revolutionary War battle site knows the name of his ancestor, a private from Virginia who participated in a daring nighttime attack. [...] Michael Sheehan, of New York's Stony Point Battlefield State Historic Site, is quite fami…
01/22/2016
Kinship terminology: How we refer to our family relationships Why Einstein moved on to general relativityIsn't it exciting to find out you have a famous historical icon in the far-off depths of your family tree? But when you brag to your friends, what do you call this famous ancestor? "Thomas Edison is the great-uncle of my great-great-grandfather's third cou.…
12/14/2015
About time!
1.5 Million Slavery Era Documents Will Be Digitized, Helping African Americans to Learn About... The Freedmen’s Bureau Project will make available online 1.5 million historical documents, finally allowing ancestors of former African-American slaves to learn more about their family roots.
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