"Tracing Our Roots" Newsletter Archive (A monthly genealogy newsletter written by the late Brenda Kellow, dec'd, for the Plano Star Courier newspaper. We've included all the ones we could recover.)
It was the last war, so they said. It was The Great War. Never again would our men have to fight in another world war. But they were wrong! Time and again our men have gone to war since then to free the oppressed. In wars, records are made for both sides. Newspapers were printed containing the latest news of the battlefront. Lucky for those with U.S. World War I soldiers who served in France, the archives has just digitized the newspapers and put them online for the years 1918 and 1919.
Consider searching these for valuable information that might not be available anywhere else. Find out what it was like for the fighting men of that period. Learn about the medical problems and day to day hardships suffered by them.
Search more quickly by going to the bottom of the page and scanning the OCR (optical character recognition) created by the computer that scanned the images and converted it to type.
The World War I Newspapers of 1918 and 1919 are online at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/sashome.html.
RAILROAD SOCIETY
The love for trains was instilled in the memory of my husband and I from an early age. We both had electric trains with coal burning type engines. We even have a small collection of trains in the study and in the library. We love them.
We also like to see historic trains and read about the people who built and operated them. They are giants in the creation of our great nation.
If you are interested in this epic period in our history, you might want to visit or join the Railroad Genealogical Society. They formed for the specific purpose to locate and preserve records relating to railroad history and development. These records are available online at www.rrgs.org.
Because I was away on vacation on my deadline, this is an abbreviated column. I ll be back by the time you read this with a full column next week.
Brenda Kellow, dec'd, Certified Genealogist and Certified Genealogical Instructor, had a Bachelor s Degree in history and taught genealogy courses at the local Community College and computer genealogy at the University.
