If you’ve done New England genealogical research for any period, you probably have run into a reference text that was created through abstracting (transcribing sections of) a record. Often these texts include an index as well. Such text include Connecticut’s Barbour Collection and Rhode Island’s Arnold Collection. Once, these texts were considered a standard partContinueContinue reading “New England Reference Texts: To Use or Not to Use in an Application?”
Category Archives: Lineage Society
Society of Colonial Wars: the Basics
The Society of Colonial Wars, also known as “the Warriors,” is an invitation only men’s society honoring the service of ancestors who served before 19 April 1775 in the colonial United States. Members work through a state society, although there is national level membership. Applicants are typically expected to know someone in that state societyContinueContinue reading “Society of Colonial Wars: the Basics”
Why was this source created?: Knowing the history can help your research
When we first start researching, we’re often so delighted to find an ancestor listed in a source that we may not do much in the way of source analysis. If you’ve ever found an ancestor on a list of Revolutionary War veterans or a Mayflower passenger listed on a family tree, you probably know thisContinueContinue reading “Why was this source created?: Knowing the history can help your research”
What’s the militia, and why does it matter?
In discussing lineage society applications, we often talk about militia service. The institution such a part of the colonial period no longer exists today. But what was it, and why does it matter? In the British colonies, the militia was the standing defensive force for a community. Service was required of men of a certainContinueContinue reading “What’s the militia, and why does it matter?”
Resources for the Research of New York Loyalists
In Unfriendly to Liberty: Loyalists Networks and the Coming of the American Revolution in New York City, Christopher Minty argues that commerce was at the center of the political divide in pre-Revolutionary New York City. The city, he suggests, was both the center of commerce for the American colonies and highly dependent on supplying BritishContinueContinue reading “Resources for the Research of New York Loyalists”
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