Mondays with Myrt - 18 Jan 2021 - Honoring Dr. King

DearREADERS,
Today we honor the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Myrt shared her experience visiting the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D. C. with this shot she captured that night. 

It brings tears to Ol' Myrt's eyes to speak of it.

First, you visit a large patio area with wall panels with Dr. King's famous quotes. In the middle, heading west, you see the backside of this statue, known as the Stone of Hope. To me it represents King's having passed mountains of challenges, shown behind him, and had yet to conquer several more. This is a type for the struggles all people of color are facing in the United States.

My three favorite quotes from Dr. King are:

• "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that."
• "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
• "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

52 THINGS: And BEARS, oh my!

DearREADERS,
Ol' Myrt here shares two stories from her father's experiences as a hunter in this mini-journal purposefully left with a plain cover. The mottled brown is reminiscent of the Formica Dad purchased sometime between the late 1960s and the early 1970s. He used it to cover the front door protecting it from the elements. Quite an unusual but innovative choice.

I've made the journal and recorded the stories via YouTube, so my children and grandchildren will know more about their family history. Since they cannot come explore the items in my old steamer trunk, they can now explore virtually.

If you cannot view the video on your device, use this link: https://youtu.be/8Hv9BmfMsBw

Other items in this series

INTRODUCING: 52 Things
52 THINGS: To polish or not to polish
52 THINGS: Secret compartment #1
52 THINGS: Tour of the Steamer Trunk

52 THINGS: Grandma Frances's Hand Mirror

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US Civil War Records Online

DearREADERS,
As always, researchers do as much work with online digital record sets before visiting the US National Archives for files concerning their Union Civil War soldiers and sailors.

Using the example of Laurie Desmarias's ancestor, we crowd sourced ideas for beginning online research for a Union Civil War research. We began by asking attendees where they would go to find information, and of course, Cyndi's List came up first. 

For a quick study of an ancestor's service unit see the National Park Service's Soldiers and Sailors Database (CWSS) located here: https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/soldiers-and-sailors-database.htm

Cousin Russ suggests discovering everything you can about a record set, why it was created, how inclusive it may or may not be. Most websites have some about this record  with brief explanations. We are looking for enlistment, service, carded medical records, soldiers' pensions, widows' pensions to begin with, though most are in textural format at National Archives 1 in Washington, DC. Morning reports, frequently found at a state archives for state units, indicate if an individual presented for duty, was detailed elsewhere, was sick or AWOL.

Army hospital records are at the National Archives tell more about a soldier's confinement. See DearMYRTLE's Military: Carded Medical Records and Original Hospital Registers posted 2 June 2012. Be sure to see Marie Varrelman Melchiori, CG, CGL's notation about the arrangement of Regular Army versus Volunteer Army filing systems.

See also:

• Medical Service Records at the National Archives (US) (.PDF) 
• NARA: Plan your Research Visit
• NARA: Using the Research Room 
• Plante, Trevor K. An Overview of Records at the National Archives Relating to Military Service, Prologue Magazine Fall 2002, Vol. 34, No. 3. Available online and includes a paragraph about carded medical records, Record Group (RG) 94, Records of the Adjutant General's Office 1780-1917, entry 534.

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SELECTED CHAT COMMENTS

00:29:19 BJ Swan: Cyndi List

00:29:21 Myra Lindgren: I google …….

00:29:29 Melanie Hinds: FamilySearch wiki

00:29:43 Melanie Hinds: FB genealogy group

00:29:47 Sheri Snodgrass: FamilySearch wiki; Google;

00:29:57 Susan Bleimehl: Internet Archive and PERSI

00:30:01 Lori Martin: Cyndi's List; FamilySearch Wiki

00:42:09 carencay bowen: He was married and the wife out lived him and collected pension both were living in Wisconsin when collecting pension Wife name is Annie E

00:44:35 Susan Bleimehl: I found my CW vet Marriage certificate in his pension file.

00:44:57 Cousin Russ: https://www.fold3.com/image/292458819?terms=snow,h,s,robert

00:47:15 Cousin Russ: https://www.fold3.com/page/635064297/robert-s-h-snow

01:03:31 Myra Lindgren: Been to Stones River! Not like going to Gettysburg, but am glad I went there. It was a good intro into Civil War Battlefields.

01:05:04 Susan Bleimehl: A neat FaceBook page is the National Museum of Civil War Medicine: https://www.facebook.com/CivilWarMed/

01:08:19 Sheri Snodgrass: Hubby's Iowa great-grandfather was reported AWOL - lots of interesting reading including bounty hunter reports

01:16:42 Susan Bleimehl: Is it Company K 1st US etc....?

01:18:00 Cousin Russ: https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/1st_Regiment,_US_Veteran_Volunteer_Infantry_(Union)

01:20:50 Susan Bleimehl: I've found my ancestors Morning reports in the 50th Regiment WI Volunteers for the Company D among a 5 volume set of records for the 50th Regiment. So at least some are there.

01:22:15 Susan Bleimehl: This is at NARA.

01:23:48 Susan Bleimehl: Hand written in my Volumes

01:25:28 Melanie Hinds: Just found a book at Hathi Trust which is a history of the 46th Illinois veteran volunteer Infantry - the infantry that my husband's ancestor served in during the Civil War. Very cool!

01:27:16 Cousin Russ: https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Utah,_FamilySearch,_Early_Church_Information_File_-_FamilySearch_Historical_Records

01:32:15 Cousin Russ: http://www.civilwardata.com/

01:38:44 Susan Bleimehl: The 50th Reg WI Volunteers went to Fort Rice Dakota Terr to replace that 1st infantry made up of those POW soldiers in late 1865. He was a blacksmith and worked with the Quartermaster during his year of service.

01:41:18 Flo Merritt: Thank you everyone

01:41:49 Myra Lindgren: Have a great rest of the week everyone!

01:41:51 Susan Bleimehl: Fun evening thanks!

01:42:12 Maria Capaldi: Thank you!

ARCHIVED DearMYRTLE POSTS and VIDEOS THIS WEEK

• Mondays with Myrt - 11 Jan 2021
  https://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2021/01/archived-mondays-with-myrt-11-jan-2021.html
• Mini-Myrt: Taking a new look at WikiTree 
  https://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2021/01/mini-myrt-taking-new-look-at-wikitree.html
  
• Myrt's Journal: Bree's Birthday Card
  https://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2021/01/myrts-journal-brees-birthday-card.html
• FamilySearch: Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Bavaria, Prussia, Peru and other new records
  https://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2021/01/familysearch-indiana-iowa-montanta.html

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Myrt     :)
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Mini-Myrt: Taking a new look at WikiTree

DearREADERS,
This is the first of our 3-month, weekly Mini-Myrt meetings focusing on updating ancestral profiles on my part of the collaborative WikiTree. While Hilary is a major volunteer at the site. Everyone else had little to no experience with Wiki-Tree prior to this meeting. Here are the links I promised after the recording concluded.

• WikiTree's "New Member How-To" https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:New_Member_How-To
• WikiTree's "Video Help" recommended by Sheri
  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Video_Help 
  
  

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https://youtu.be/macuHB9F544

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Happy family tree climbing!
Myrt     :)
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Myrt's Journal: Bree's Birthday Card

DearREADERS,
OK, so I had  drawn the line at crafting mini-journals, but then my granddaughter Bree's birthday is coming up. Now I've moved the line to include card making. I had always thought it would be too much work. But it was fun to craft and think about her while I made this today!

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FamilySearch: Indiana, Iowa, Montanta, Bavaria, Prussia, Peru and other new records

 NOTE from DearMYRTLE: The following was received from our friends at FamilySearch.org.

SALT LAKE CITY, UT--Search new United States records added this week at FamilySearch for Indiana WWII Draft Registrations 1940–1947, Iowa Marriages 1941–1951, Indiana Marriages 1811–2007, and Montana County Voting Records 1884–1992, plus Germany, Bavaria City Records 1700–1940, Prussia Census Lists 1770–1934, Peru Piura Civil Registrations 1874–1996 and expanded collections for Austria, Brazil, England, Peru, S. Africa, Spain, Sweden and the US (CA, MD, MS, MT, SD, WA, and WI). 

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Country	Collection	Indexed Records	Digital Images	Comments
Argentina	Argentina, Salta, Civil Registration, 1880-2000	1,714	0	Expanded collection
Austria	Austria, Vienna, Jewish Registers of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1784-1911	19,936	0	Expanded collection
Brazil	Brazil, Minas Gerais, Civil Registration, 1879-1949	16,813	0	Expanded collection
Brazil	Brazil, Paraná, Civil Registration, 1852-1996	38,368	0	Expanded collection
Brazil	Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, Civil Registration, 1860-2006	5,431	0	Expanded collection
Brazil	Brazil, Santa Catarina, Civil Registration, 1850-1999	1,998	0	Expanded collection
Canada	Nova Scotia Church Records, 1720-2001	553	0	Expanded collection
England	England, Essex Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1971	784	0	Expanded collection
England	England, Gloucestershire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1642-1996	16,585	0	Expanded collection
England	England, Herefordshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1583-1898	9,863	0	Expanded collection
England	England, Northumberland Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1920	4,759	0	Expanded collection
France	France, Saône-et-Loire, Parish and Civil Registration, 1530-1892	135	0	Expanded collection
Germany	Germany, Bavaria, Passau, Miscellaneous City Records, 1700-1940	53,070	0	Expanded collection
Germany	Germany, Prussia, Saxony, Census Lists, 1770-1934	41,511	0	Expanded collection
Kiribati	Kiribati, Vital Records, 1890-1991	85	0	Expanded collection
Micronesia	Micronesia, Civil Registration, 1883-1983	5,653	0	Expanded collection
Norway	Norway, Probate Index Cards, 1640-1903	5,483	0	Expanded collection
Paraguay	Paraguay, Catholic Church Records, 1754-2015	28	0	Expanded collection
Peru	Peru, Piura, Civil Registration, 1874-1996	46,978	0	Expanded collection
Peru	Peru, Prelature of Yauyos-Cañete-Huarochirí, Catholic Church Records, 1665-2018	9,251	0	Expanded collection
Puerto Rico	Puerto Rico, Civil Registration, 1805-2001	4,693	0	Expanded collection
Samoa	Samoa, Vital Records, 1846-1996	4,313	0	Expanded collection
South Africa	South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004	17	0	Expanded collection
South Africa	South Africa, Civil Death Registration, 1955-1966	33,655	0	Expanded collection
South Africa	South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970	19,327	0	Expanded collection
South Africa	South Africa, KwaZulu Natal, Vital Records, 1868-1976	10,800	0	Expanded collection
Spain	Spain, Province of La Coruña, Municipal Records, 1648-1941	17,168	0	Expanded collection
Sweden	Sweden, Örebro Church Records, 1613-1918; index 1635-1860	20,968	0	Expanded collection
Sweden	Sweden, Västerbotten Church Records, 1619-1896; index, 1688-1860	12,953	0	Expanded collection
United States	California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994	158	0	Expanded collection
United States	California, Los Angeles, Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery/Crematory Records, 1884-2002	32,416	0	Expanded collection
United States	Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990	1	0	Expanded collection
United States	Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007	176,943	0	Expanded collection
United States	Indiana, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947	899,360	0	New collection
United States	Iowa, Marriage Records, 1941-1951	249,115	0	New collection
United States	Maryland, Allegany County, Tax and Voter Records, 1798-1948	106,545	0	Expanded collection
United States	Michigan, Saginaw County, Biographical Card File, ca. 1830-2000	16	0	Expanded collection
United States	Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979	30,455	0	Expanded collection
United States	Montana, County Voting Records, 1884-1992	176,376	0	Expanded collection
United States	New Jersey, Death Index, 1901-1903; 1916-1929	634	0	Expanded collection
United States	South Dakota, County Naturalization Records, 1865-1972	52,986	0	Expanded collection
United States	Texas, Grimes County, Marriage Records, 1951-1966	428	0	Expanded collection
United States	United States, Cemetery Abstracts, 1949-1969	13	0	Expanded collection
United States	Virginia, Various Counties, Marriage Bonds, 1706-1901	18	0	Expanded collection
United States	Washington, County Birth Registers, 1873-1965	89,438	0	Expanded collection
United States	Washington, County Divorce Records, 1852-1950	78	0	Expanded collection
United States	Wisconsin, County Naturalization Records, 1807-1992	12,373	0	Expanded collection
Venezuela	Venezuela Civil Registration, 1873-2003	1,157	0	Expanded collection
Zambia	Zambia, Archdiocese of Lusaka, Church Records, 1950-2015	33	0	Expanded collection

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