The Detroit News reports on “Patriot Games - Genealogy Fans Unravel Past” that genealogists and family history researchers are in a “race against time” to find and preserve those who served in the American Revolution.
Two hundred and thirty years after the United States was conceived in liberty, the search continues in attics, cemeteries and courthouses for the men who fought to make that fuzzy notion a reality.
Spurred by pride and racing against time, a loose confederacy of amateur sleuths and hardcore patriots from Michigan to Massachusetts is still trying to identify all 217,000 soldiers and sailors who took up muskets and knives for the American Revolution.
Unlike all other wars since the Civil War, the names of tens of thousands of men who battled the British have vanished into history.
They’re being retrieved one by one, aided by the Internet, crumbling records and lonely trips to graveyards.
If you have a relative who fought or contributed to the American Revolution, get in touch with your local genealogy society, Internet resources, and the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution and the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution to help them preserve the history of your ancestor.
Article Information
Help Preserve Your Ancestors of the American Revolution is Issue Number 105 published August 12, 2006, by Lorelle VanFossen. This is just one of many articles found in the Genealogy News categories. Lorelle VanFossen writes for a variety of blogs, websites, ezines, and print publications. She also teaches and does a lot of public speaking internationally on photography, writing, blogging, web page design and development, and more. She and her husband and cat(s) travel full-time across North American and the rest of the world by RV, planes, trains, automobiles, and foot, writing and photographing their travels and nature, when they can find it. Lorelle VanFossen has written 231 articles for our our family history blog.
Using feeds, you can monitor this entire blog through our RSS Feed, or the categories associated with this post:
Genealogy News. If you would like to monitor the comments on this post, subscribe with the RSS comments feed.
This site is for educational and research purposes only. We permit the use of the material for not-for-profit purposes. When citing any of the material published on this site, you must provide proper credit to the site and a link back to http://www.cameraontheroad.com/family. All other use must be approved in writing. For more information on our policies, permissions, and copyrights, see our About page. All Rights Reserved and Copyrighted.
