I am really excited about the services provided by Foot Notes , a document archive website providing digital delivery of historical documents. The collection is vast and one easily finds information ancestors in their lines. The collection is growing daily and they offer a Full Access Free Trial. Nothing to loose and much to gain.
The collection contains a wealth of information on Civil War pensions as surprisingly a lot of Canadian information as well. Searching the Brundage surname in general I found over a thousand documents.
I also found important information which led to the destruction on one of my brick walls. My mothers line containing my great-great grandfather by the name of "Solon Richards" had been a hard nut to crack for over 8 years but I finally established the line. One would think that with a first name as uncommon as "Solon" on would easily find information or at least there would be no confusion when information was found. Not the case !
With both researchers and information transcribers concluding that the name "Solon" must be "Solomon" the process of establishing my line was difficult to say the least. Although it is often difficult from experience I recommend that one never give up. Put it aside perhaps for a little while and search again at a later date. Information resources are being added to the Internet daily and you never know when new information will lead to your destruction of an brick wall.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
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