Steve’s Genealogy Blog

Today I saw that no fewer than four genealogy blogs, Chris Dunham’s The Genealogue, Joe Beine’s Genealogy Roots Blog, Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter, and Randy Seaver’s Genea-Musings mentioned the fact that Ancestry.com has now digitized and indexed all readily available U.S. Passengers Lists from 1820 to 1960.  Moreover, Ancestry’s entire Immigration Collection is FREE until the end of November.
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Joe Beine, author of the Genealogy Roots Blog, posted an article yesterday about the World War II Army Enlistment Records database at NARA.  I visited the NARA website and conducted a search for records of my relatives.  I found quite a few records, including one for Edward W. Niedzialkosky and another for Bernard P. Niedzialkosky.  Both […]

The last two records for the Savitt family I was able to find are the World War II Draft Registration Cards for David and Morris Savitt.  These cards are from the “Old Men’s Draft” described in a previous post.  These are the Draft Registration Cards for the Fourth Registration conducted in 1942 and include men […]

I arrived at Logan Airport, picked up a rental car and drove to Worcester, Massachusetts to visit my uncles Ray and Henry.  Ray and I went to get a bite to eat and Ray started to tell me about his time in the military service.  At this point, I realized that I didn’t have a […]

The documentary film, A Forgotten Odyssey, describes the invasion of Poland by the Soviet Union on September 17, 1939 and the consequences of that invasion.
The truth is, the odyssey of the Polish people after the Soviet occupation was not forgotten.  It was hushed up by the West.

Warsaw Memorial to the Villages Overrun by the Soviets 
As the Soviets […]

A synopsis of the events surrounding the Katyn Forest Massacre
in which Wiktor Dziurzyński was murdered

Sign on the Road near Katyn
“Memorial to the Polish Officers Who Perished in Katyn”
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/1791/ 
On August 23, 1939 the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed by Germany and the Soviet Union.  Formally, the pact was a non-aggression agreement between the two countries, but it also contained a secret protocol […]

On April 26, 2006, I posted an entry about the World War II Selective Service Registration Cards.  The Family History Library (FHL) holds 166 microfilm reels of World War II Selective Service System Registration Cards for the state of Massachusetts.  These are the Draft Registration Cards for the Fourth Registration conducted in 1942 and include […]

The Family History Library (FHL) holds 166 microfilm reels of World War II Selective Service System Registration Cards for the state of Massachusetts.  These are the Draft Registration Cards for the Fourth Registration conducted in 1942 and include men born between 28 APR 1877 and 16 FEB 1897.  The original cards are located in the […]