Caption for photo to left: Human Statue of Liberty. 18,000 Officers and Men at Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa. Colonel William Newman, Command...

Caption for photo to left: Human Statue of Liberty. 18,000 Officers and Men at Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa. Colonel William Newman, Command...

The poem below was written and posted last year at this time A Toast to the First and the Fourth of July for David Van Every (1757-182...

This week's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun over at Genea-Musings looked fun, but was slightly depressing. 1) Find an ancestral line that...

For the past couple years, in my genealogical travels around the web, and in surname messageboards on various genealogy sites, I’ve seen ref...

Apparently there are some today celebrating the 225th Anniversary of the "First landing of the United Empire Loyalists." Like man...