Registration is now open for the New England Regional Genealogical Conference 2015. The NYG&B is a sponsoring society of the conference, and has sponsored a wonderful lecture by Terry Koch-Bostic on the astonishing records of the US Sanitary Commission, recently cataloged and made available to researchers at the New York Public Library. The US Sanitary Commission was a civilian organization commissioned by the US government during the Civil War to provide sanitary and medical assistance to soldiers. However, the scope of the group grew tremendously during the war and after. Nearly one third of the collection deals with records of claims filed by the US Sanitary Commission on behalf of soldiers and their families for back pay, bounty, and pension claims- records which contain a wealth of genealogical information for researchers. For more information on the holdings of this massive collection and on the US Sanitary Commission, visit the NYPL website: nypl.org/blog/2010/04/26/united-states-sanitary-commission-processing-project
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 08:08:27 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015