This Saturday we will be celebrating our Annual Holiday Get-together.

Bill has put up the tree, and it will soon be decorated. (Jim Helped)

 

We really have some wonderful cooks in our midst, and so another Pot Luck will be in order.  And of course there will be some surprises -- raffle basket perhaps and a game or two?  Or maybe just visiting and sharing new and old ideas.

(If bringing a dish is difficult, come anyway.)

Brian Rhinehart is a professional genealogist and speaker who specializes in research and record retrieval related to 19^th-century military records (Civil War, War of 1812, Mexican War, Indian Wars, and the Spanish-American War) and federal land records (bounty land, homestead land, etc.). He provides on-site research and record retrieval at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. He holds a Certificate in Genealogical Research from Boston University.

 

In this presentation, Brian talks about resources to help determine if you have a Civil War soldier in your family tree, with an emphasis on differentiating between soldiers who had common names.