Following the Armies: Researching Military Maps

Learn the particulars of the Civil War pension approval process and what a pension application file for your Union Army veteran may contain. This lecture will review the history and background of military pensions in the United States. It will also cover specific details about the Civil War pension approval process for Union soldiers and their widows. A case study will illustrate the contents of the Civil War Union pension application file for George W. Tillman and his widow, Corabelle.

So many statutes required notice that someone wanted something done, and the legal notices in newspapers can be priceless sources of genealogical clues.

Before World War II, the FBI had dossiers on many German, Italian, and Japanese immigrants. Immediately after Pearl Harbor, thousands of them were arrested and sent to "temporary detention centers" and internment camps throughout the country. Learn about these men and women, focusing on the Japanese immigrants held at Sharp Park and Angel Island in the Bay Area. Newly digitized documents available online create new opportunities to learn about their stories.

A live demonstration of how to create maps for use in genealogical research, evidence evaluation, and/or narratives, using PowerPoint and Google Slides.

Los mapas históricos son herramientas indispensables para comprender el contexto en el que vivieron nuestros antepasados. Este webinar ofrecerá una introducción clara y práctica al uso de la cartografía mexicana—desde la época colonial hasta el siglo XX—como apoyo para la investigación genealógica. Se presentarán distintos tipos de mapas, incluyendo cartas topográficas, mapas municipales, planos de haciendas y ciudades, mapas censales, delimitaciones de pueblos de indios y documentos agrarios del periodo posrevolucionario. A través de ejemplos reales, los asistentes aprenderán a identificar cambios en nombres de localidades, límites jurisdiccionales y estructuras territoriales que frecuentemente complican la búsqueda de registros. Además, se mostrarán recursos digitales y archivos mexicanos que conservan colecciones cartográficas de acceso público.

Life for early American women was often burdened with setbacks. Limited by society without voting rights, limited educational opportunities, and virtually no legal identity, women sought to be equals in society. This lecture focuses on the history of women and the Suffrage Movement from the colonial times to the early twentieth century. Numerous genealogical records are examined in this lecture, discussing records from the Anti-Slavery movement to Temperance, military service, and later, when women gained the right to vote.