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Your Civil War Ancestors: Beginning Your Research

Michael G. Hait, Jr., CG, AG

Oct 24, 2012

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Syllabus

Content

Welcome

2m 1s

Poll

2m 6s

Speaker's Introduction

1m 43s

Introduction

4m 29s

Identifying a Soldier

1m 40s

Check the Census

11m 31s

Tombstones

1m 44s

Family Tradition

49s

Obituaries

2m 21s

NARA Indexes

2m 37s

Online Databases

4m 43s

Finding Original Records

1m 7s

Compiled Service Records

18m 33s

Pension Application Files

17m 11s

Confederate Pension Files

2m 33s

Other Sources

8m 17s

Announcements / prizes

10m 10s

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About this webinar

Learn how to identify your Civil War ancestors, and what information can be found in the Civil War records.

About the speaker

Michael G. Hait, Jr., CG, AG

Michael G. Hait, Jr., CG®, AG®, works as a genealogist for the United States federal government. He has published numerous articles in the Maryland Genealogical Society Journal , the New York Genealog...

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