This week’s blogging prompt is the District of Columbia. Blog about an ancestor or your families connection to District of Columbia. If you don’t have any connections to District of Columbia, find a District of Columbia resource useful for genealogy research to highlight and write about. This week’s prompt runs from 12/22/2013 – 12/28/2013. If you choose to follow along, I would appreciate a mention to the Hidden Genealogy Nuggets website.
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Edwin Alfred Banks was born on 28-Nov-1846 in Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut and the son of Alfred Banks and Jane Ann Shepard. He had a twin son Edward Alfred Banks. In 1850, he was living with his parent and brother in Seneca, Ontario County, New York. By 1860, the family was living back in Newtown, Connecticut.
On January 2, 1864 at the age of 17, Edwin enlisted in the Union Army. He had lied about his age and he indicated he was actually 18. He served in the 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillary. On August 18, 1865 he was discharged from the Union Army.
After the war, he married Mary Ann McKeown on April 22, 1869. The ended up having three children, Minnie, Alfred and Charles. During the rest of his life, he moved around quite a bit. He lived for a while in Washington DC. He died at a soldiers home on July 2, 1921,
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A few District of Columbia Genealogy Links
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This week’s blogging prompt is the State of Hawaii. Blog about an ancestor or your families connection to Hawaii. If you don’t have any connections to Hawaii, find a Hawaii resource useful for genealogy research to highlight and write about. This week’s prompt runs from 12/15/2013 – 12/21/2013. If you choose to follow along, I would appreciate a mention to the Hidden Genealogy Nuggets website.
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I do have some connections to Hawaii. A second cousin of mine was last know to be in Hawaii in the 1960s. However, I’ve been unable to locate him. Since he is likely to still be living, I’m not going to share dates of birth or death. David Sanders had a wife named Joyce. They had at three children, all daughters. One daughter was born in Texas and the other two were born in Honolulu, Hawaii. If you happen to know the whereabouts of David, I would love to hear from you.
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A few Hawaii Genealogy Links
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Hawaii Newspaper Archives at Genealogy Bank 
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This week’s blogging prompt is the State of Alaska. Blog about an ancestor or your families connection to Alaska. If you don’t have any connections to Alaska, find a Alaska resource useful for genealogy research to highlight and write about. This week’s prompt runs from 12/8/2013 – 12/14/2013. If you choose to follow along, I would appreciate a mention to the Hidden Genealogy Nuggets website.
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I have no family ties to Alaska other than a few relatives visiting there on occasion, so I will highlight a genealogy resource from Alaska. I could not find a free Alaska resource which had a lot of good on-line records. Therefore, I will highlight the various resources available at the Alaska State Library.
In the 1990s the Alaska State Library went through an effort to microfilm it’s newspapers. The Alaska Newspaper Project has microfilmed newspapers from as early as 1866. Newspapers provide a wonderful genealogy resource. See our previous blog post on newspaper genealogy.
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A few Alaska Genealogy Links
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Alaska Newspaper Archives at Genealogy Bank
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This week’s blogging prompt is the State of Arizona. Blog about an ancestor or your families connection to Arizona. If you don’t have any connections to Arizona, find a Arizona resource useful for genealogy research to highlight and write about. This week’s prompt runs from 12/1/2013 – 12/7/2013. If you choose to follow along, I would appreciate a mention to the Hidden Genealogy Nuggets website.
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As of now, I have yet to find any family connections to Arizona. Therefore I will highlight one resource from Arizona. The Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records has a wonderful collection of online records. Check out the Arizona Digital Newspaper Program. There are quite a few digital copies of early newspapers. For advice on using newspapers for genealogical research, see an earlier post on Hidden Genealogy Nuggets.
Another interesting section of this website is the Arizona Memory Project.
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A few Arizona Genealogy Links
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Arizona Newspaper Archives at Genealogy Bank
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