Hey, thanks! Channel members get a sneak peek of the latest videos. This way, I can thank you for the extra support (and catch mistakes before a video launches. Additionally, I will respond to all channel member comments and questions. I'll respond to public comments as I'm able. So, I'm glad you caught this early access to the video and I now know this works. I hope you'll share some feedback about the video's specific content. Are you excited about this series? Do you think I'm crazy? What other thoughts do you have about this video? Now that I know this early access for members works, I'll work on email announcements. Stay tuned. I'm getting everything set up.
Have missed seeing you. Glad you're back. This project sounds quite intriguing and something I am interested in with some of my Military ancestors. I've found while researching my father-in-law's (fil) WWII military service (which I'm still working on) that I really didn't (and still don't) know a whole lot about how the draft was handled. Found looking at local newspapers at that time to be pretty informative. I've also found reading many books written by officers in his unit/battalion/etc to be quite informative and helpful at filling some of the blanks. I should add that my fil's military file was "destroyed" in the major fire at St. Louis and he never talked about his 5 years of service, but did earn a Purple Heart and Oak Leaf.
Wow. I'm always surprised, even though I shouldn't by now, when veterans won't talk about their experiences. After reading the Red Badge of Courage, perhaps there is something in that book that explains why they didn't speak of their service. BTW... I love newspapers. However, for this project, I didn't consult them as my goal was a quick snapshot not a deep dive. If I decide to become an expert on the 133rd, then newspapers will top my research list.
Just found this video at the suggestion of the all-knowing algorithm. The kind of research you are doing is, in my view, the best that genealogy has to offer. Understanding the actual circumstances of an ancestor's life in a vastly different time, not just accumulating dates, names, stray facts, etc. It takes a great deal of hours and relentless curiosity about the human experience. I look forward to reading your blog and learning from your videos.
I appreciate you taking the time to watch the video. I honestly think that the future of 'genealogy' research is group based, rather than just individual based. It will benefit family historians, historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and so forth. I just don't know if we have the tools for such work just yet, and that's seems to be a problem.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics I am researching the original owner of a 1900 handmade English shotgun recently bought by a family member at auction. Quickly learned that the first owner lived in the mansion believed to have inspired Toad Hall in the Wind in the Willows and that his close family included the estate manager for Balmoral Castle under three kings, the man who brought the first hippopotamus to London, the host for a Royal Regatta, and a spy working as on Hogan's Heroes during WWII while a prisoner of war. Groups are indeed interesting.
Thanks. It's a rabbit hole with a purpose and limiting factors. BUT, it's easily to go beyond the limits, so I'm hoping folks will appreciate how even an experienced genealogist constantly has to battle the tangents with a purpose.
Keep commenting on my videos, and it'll be easier to create content. Sometimes, when a video has no comments, I get discouraged. That is only one factor that contributed to the break. I needed to refill my cup, so to speak. But the comment section is going crazy right now, and I hope that it continues.
I can see how your research exploded! I will be following your journey. I started researching my ancestors who served in the Revolutionary War--so many through different family branches. This project increased very quickly...and I've laid it aside for a while. Maybe I can learn by following your progress. Hope so.
You know what? Don't expand your research until after I finish this series. That way, you can avoid all the mistakes I made. (And yes, I made quite a few).
I am looking forward to this. I have recently become more fascinated more by the tiny townships/census districts as a whole where some of my relatives lived than just my individual relatives - wanting to study them more to see what they can tell me about their pre- and post- Civil War lives, so this will help me feel out if this type of research can go and some more ideas of how to get started in a community where the courthouse kept getting burnt down decade after decade.
Nice. I hope you enjoy the journey. I think you'll discover just as many ways NOT to do the research as how to go about it. I really feel 'group' research will have more lasting and powerful impact on genealogical and historical research. Hopefully we all can collaborate to find the right tools for the job.
Glad to see more videos. I watched a lot of them when I first got my DNA done during the holidays last year and wanted to figure out how to find lost relatives. Eventually a lost relative contacted me, someone my mom had thought died in infancy and who she thought she'd never see again, but in a tragic twist in fate she contacted me shortly after my mom passed away this past May. So, they never did get to see each other again.
Hey. It's hard to open up and be vulnerable enough to say, "Here's where I went wrong," but "Here's something really cool. I enjoy research along with my series, so I'm glad you do as well. I hope to see many more comments from you during this journey.
Ha, ha. I can't promise all videos will have bloopers. But I'll include them on occasion. Just to make people watch until the end which makes UA-cam really happy.
Looking forward to releasing more. I have to tackle yardwork and some house work. I neglected that to get the first set of videos scheduled. But, now that I have some systems in place, I think I can balance home making with video making. Fingers crossed.
It is a noble quest to embark on. I too have had an interest in the endeavors of ancestors for some time now, a greatgrandfather was in the unon army at the time of the civil war, the information I got was he was in the 171st. Ohio national gaurd,and I was told he was 17, when he entered service, there is more I wish to discover, so this a facinating topic.😊
Oooo... you have enough to begin diving into documents. Three record collections that I would suggest looking for: 1. A regimental history for the 171st. While you're ancestor might not be specifically named, you'll learn about the unit, more than a brief summary in the Rosters or the Soliders & Sailor Database at the NARA 2. Seek out the Civil War Pension Index. Since you know the name and the regiment, you might just find your ancestor. 3. Once you find the file numbers on the Civil War Pension Index, then see if the full pension file is available at the NARA website. Or save some money and request a genealogist from the Association of Professional Genealogist website who does Civil War Pension copying work to go to the NARA and make a digital copy of the record for you. Good luck!
Thank you. I did have a great summer. Andy and I competed at the World Championship Wife Carrying Competition and finished 4th in the Sprint and 4th in the Senior Division of the long course event. It was fun and we're hoping to go back.
Yay. I'm glad. I see that you're a channel member. Hang on just a little longer and I'll start doing more than just releasing new videos as early access. Regarding the writing family stories, have you found my second channel. www.youtube.com/@WriteYourFamilyHistory
Looking forward to following your research & tracking of all the diff men! I've been researching the regiments of: 1 set of brothers in Union Cavalry (hairdressers who emigrated from UK to Michigan a mere 2 yrs prior, their 1st battle was Gettysburg, under the command of a young Geo. Armstrong Custer!?) - ALSO: 1 TN Confederate soldier (imprisoned in POW camps TWICE, he served with men from Pulaski TN, birthplace of the KKK; I want to see how their relationships affected my relative.)
Great research projects!!! I hope you'll share your journey with me. (Just start new threads, as I haven't learned how to see when someone comments on a comment thread.)
What an interesting project! I did a similar project with a neighborhood, but nothing with this large of a scale. Have you considered using the tree on Storied to help you map the relationships? I don't think it would work for a lot of your data analysis, but it might help you visualize how the men in the unit are interconnected since it allows you to connect the FAN club.
I have thought about the way Storied maps out associates. I am considering playing with that (or inviting one of their engineers to do so). I'd be interested in seeing how that plays out.
Did a similar project on smaller scale with Loyalist settlers of one of the townships along the St Lawrence. Most had served in the same regiment and had come from the valleys of upper New York. I went paper and pencil but definitely chartwise.
Wow!!! I hope you'll enjoy this series, and even if I do things you wouldn't, I hope you'll share the things that you did that others (including myself) could learn from.
Fortunately I live in Missouri which has the Missouri Military Museum. Even though they have a large amount of holdings, it isn't complete. One thing is to have an understanding that National Guard Units aren't always considered a part of the entire federal forces in some battles. This can leave you looking for information that isn't there. Start with the closest information before moving outward. - Next part of things to consider in the bigger picture is that Ohio is what I think of as a crossroads state. It had cousins that were parts of families who moved on over the last 60 to 70 years before the war. - Newspapers - newspapers - newspapers were the media of the time and some interesting in formation can be as far away as the west coast. However some isn't going to be available on internet websites. I've had to request reels of film and use the geneaologist's aerobic exercise of cranking through the images. Perhaps it sounds intimidating, well ok I confess it is. Each unit has records in diferent places and families can have records in different places. Good luck in your hunt!
There are some county maps that show names of land owners/farmers. Not sure if these go back into the 1860's; the ones I've seen were produced in late 1800's.
Yes. That would be extremely helpful once I figure out where folks are from. I know Ohio has many plat maps, which were helpful in my German Immigrant ancestry research. But I'll make a note about consulting plat maps later in the project.
While I have not seen it, I understand there is a multivolume series documenting the medical history of people in the US Civil War. If you could find the series, it might go a long way towards answereing some of your questions.
That's a great discovery. Yes, distant cousin research is the best. I have obtained a copy of my German Immigrant ancestor's naturalization certificate this way.
I would contact the Ohio ANG state Headquarters. There should be an state military historian and archives. Being a short lived unit there my not be much, but one never knows. I have had little susses with information on my family as they fought for the south and so many southern records were lost.
I have a love-hate relationship with Excel. I had to go with a different spreadsheet when Excel became a subscription model. However, Excel will come into play a little later in the series. So it does have some powerful tools that Google Sheets doesn't have. So again - love/hate.
It's very useful, particularly when it comes to created a GEDCOM file from the spreadsheet information. Alas, I don't have it on my computer so I used GoogleSheets. But as I shared in a later video, I did go to the library and use Excel after I created the initial spreadsheet and needed a way to create a GEDCOM file.
It is great to see you posting again
Hey, thanks! Channel members get a sneak peek of the latest videos. This way, I can thank you for the extra support (and catch mistakes before a video launches. Additionally, I will respond to all channel member comments and questions. I'll respond to public comments as I'm able.
So, I'm glad you caught this early access to the video and I now know this works. I hope you'll share some feedback about the video's specific content. Are you excited about this series? Do you think I'm crazy? What other thoughts do you have about this video?
Now that I know this early access for members works, I'll work on email announcements. Stay tuned. I'm getting everything set up.
Have missed seeing you. Glad you're back.
This project sounds quite intriguing and something I am interested in with some of my Military ancestors.
I've found while researching my father-in-law's (fil) WWII military service (which I'm still working on) that I really didn't (and still don't) know a whole lot about how the draft was handled. Found looking at local newspapers at that time to be pretty informative. I've also found reading many books written by officers in his unit/battalion/etc to be quite informative and helpful at filling some of the blanks. I should add that my fil's military file was "destroyed" in the major fire at St. Louis and he never talked about his 5 years of service, but did earn a Purple Heart and Oak Leaf.
Wow. I'm always surprised, even though I shouldn't by now, when veterans won't talk about their experiences. After reading the Red Badge of Courage, perhaps there is something in that book that explains why they didn't speak of their service.
BTW... I love newspapers. However, for this project, I didn't consult them as my goal was a quick snapshot not a deep dive. If I decide to become an expert on the 133rd, then newspapers will top my research list.
Just found this video at the suggestion of the all-knowing algorithm. The kind of research you are doing is, in my view, the best that genealogy has to offer. Understanding the actual circumstances of an ancestor's life in a vastly different time, not just accumulating dates, names, stray facts, etc. It takes a great deal of hours and relentless curiosity about the human experience. I look forward to reading your blog and learning from your videos.
I appreciate you taking the time to watch the video. I honestly think that the future of 'genealogy' research is group based, rather than just individual based. It will benefit family historians, historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and so forth. I just don't know if we have the tools for such work just yet, and that's seems to be a problem.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics I am researching the original owner of a 1900 handmade English shotgun recently bought by a family member at auction. Quickly learned that the first owner lived in the mansion believed to have inspired Toad Hall in the Wind in the Willows and that his close family included the estate manager for Balmoral Castle under three kings, the man who brought the first hippopotamus to London, the host for a Royal Regatta, and a spy working as on Hogan's Heroes during WWII while a prisoner of war. Groups are indeed interesting.
Wow! I wish YT's behind the scenes system made it easier to see your response sooner. This sounds cool!
Welcome back! Your project is intriguing ... more rabbit holes to go down!
Thanks. It's a rabbit hole with a purpose and limiting factors. BUT, it's easily to go beyond the limits, so I'm hoping folks will appreciate how even an experienced genealogist constantly has to battle the tangents with a purpose.
Glad to see back. Looking forward to this series.
Yay. Glad you're excited. I'm happy to be back.
So excited to see you back! Your content is so helpful!
I'm glad my content is helpful!
great to see you back and hope you stay, have a great day
Keep commenting on my videos, and it'll be easier to create content. Sometimes, when a video has no comments, I get discouraged. That is only one factor that contributed to the break. I needed to refill my cup, so to speak. But the comment section is going crazy right now, and I hope that it continues.
So glad you are back!!
Thanks so much. Thanks for the welcome. I hope you'll enjoy the future videos and let me know through the comments.
I can see how your research exploded! I will be following your journey. I started researching my ancestors who served in the Revolutionary War--so many through different family branches. This project increased very quickly...and I've laid it aside for a while. Maybe I can learn by following your progress. Hope so.
You know what? Don't expand your research until after I finish this series. That way, you can avoid all the mistakes I made. (And yes, I made quite a few).
It is wonderful to see you posting again.
Thanks so much. It's fun to share what I've been up to and I hope folks will enjoy the journey and we can all learn together.
I am looking forward to this. I have recently become more fascinated more by the tiny townships/census districts as a whole where some of my relatives lived than just my individual relatives - wanting to study them more to see what they can tell me about their pre- and post- Civil War lives, so this will help me feel out if this type of research can go and some more ideas of how to get started in a community where the courthouse kept getting burnt down decade after decade.
Nice. I hope you enjoy the journey. I think you'll discover just as many ways NOT to do the research as how to go about it. I really feel 'group' research will have more lasting and powerful impact on genealogical and historical research. Hopefully we all can collaborate to find the right tools for the job.
Glad to see more videos. I watched a lot of them when I first got my DNA done during the holidays last year and wanted to figure out how to find lost relatives. Eventually a lost relative contacted me, someone my mom had thought died in infancy and who she thought she'd never see again, but in a tragic twist in fate she contacted me shortly after my mom passed away this past May. So, they never did get to see each other again.
Oh, that's a bittersweet discovery. But perhaps you can connect with this new long-lost relative and that will be a sweet conneciton.
Great to see you back!
Thanks. Be sure to watch the next video. I just released it today
I'm So Glad you're back 😊
Thanks so much.
These are the best kind of how-to videos, thanks for doing the "real time" format!
Hey. It's hard to open up and be vulnerable enough to say, "Here's where I went wrong," but "Here's something really cool. I enjoy research along with my series, so I'm glad you do as well. I hope to see many more comments from you during this journey.
I hope you’re doing well! Glad you’re back, and I enjoy your videos.
I'm amazing, thank you. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. Comments make it easier to come back.
I miss watching your videos glad you are back
Aww, thank you. It's good to be back.
Hello! Nice to have you back! And the bloopers. Missed you guys xx
Ha, ha. I can't promise all videos will have bloopers. But I'll include them on occasion. Just to make people watch until the end which makes UA-cam really happy.
Looking forward to more from you.
Looking forward to releasing more. I have to tackle yardwork and some house work. I neglected that to get the first set of videos scheduled. But, now that I have some systems in place, I think I can balance home making with video making. Fingers crossed.
It is a noble quest to embark on. I too have had an interest in the endeavors of ancestors for some time now, a greatgrandfather was in the unon army at the time of the civil war, the information I got was he was in the 171st. Ohio national gaurd,and I was told he was 17, when he entered service, there is more I wish to discover, so this a facinating topic.😊
Oooo... you have enough to begin diving into documents. Three record collections that I would suggest looking for:
1. A regimental history for the 171st. While you're ancestor might not be specifically named, you'll learn about the unit, more than a brief summary in the Rosters or the Soliders & Sailor Database at the NARA
2. Seek out the Civil War Pension Index. Since you know the name and the regiment, you might just find your ancestor.
3. Once you find the file numbers on the Civil War Pension Index, then see if the full pension file is available at the NARA website. Or save some money and request a genealogist from the Association of Professional Genealogist website who does Civil War Pension copying work to go to the NARA and make a digital copy of the record for you.
Good luck!
I've missed you! You make my day!
Aww. You make mind. Keep leaving comments. It's a sure fire way to keep me making videos. It's like we're having a conversation.
Great video! Glad to see you back! I hope you had a great summer!
Thank you. I did have a great summer. Andy and I competed at the World Championship Wife Carrying Competition and finished 4th in the Sprint and 4th in the Senior Division of the long course event. It was fun and we're hoping to go back.
I look forward to seeing more from you. I have missed the videos. I want to get into writing family stories.
Yay. I'm glad. I see that you're a channel member. Hang on just a little longer and I'll start doing more than just releasing new videos as early access.
Regarding the writing family stories, have you found my second channel. www.youtube.com/@WriteYourFamilyHistory
Welcome back!
Thanks. Oh... be on the lookout for a Missionary named Elder Lee in Dallas, Oregon.
Welcome back! :-)
Thanks. Happy to be back. Keep the comments coming because that's the best encouragement to continue.
Welcome back! I’m in! 🎉
Thanks so much.
Looking forward to following your research & tracking of all the diff men! I've been researching the regiments of: 1 set of brothers in Union Cavalry (hairdressers who emigrated from UK to Michigan a mere 2 yrs prior, their 1st battle was Gettysburg, under the command of a young Geo. Armstrong Custer!?) - ALSO: 1 TN Confederate soldier (imprisoned in POW camps TWICE, he served with men from Pulaski TN, birthplace of the KKK; I want to see how their relationships affected my relative.)
Great research projects!!! I hope you'll share your journey with me. (Just start new threads, as I haven't learned how to see when someone comments on a comment thread.)
What an interesting project! I did a similar project with a neighborhood, but nothing with this large of a scale. Have you considered using the tree on Storied to help you map the relationships? I don't think it would work for a lot of your data analysis, but it might help you visualize how the men in the unit are interconnected since it allows you to connect the FAN club.
I have thought about the way Storied maps out associates. I am considering playing with that (or inviting one of their engineers to do so). I'd be interested in seeing how that plays out.
this shows that you are interested in history in general
NOT just genealogy
Yes. Yes, I am. And perhaps genealogists should be supporting history research and vice versa?
Did a similar project on smaller scale with Loyalist settlers of one of the townships along the St Lawrence. Most had served in the same regiment and had come from the valleys of upper New York. I went paper and pencil but definitely chartwise.
Wow!!! I hope you'll enjoy this series, and even if I do things you wouldn't, I hope you'll share the things that you did that others (including myself) could learn from.
Did you publish it online? I've found out that I have ancestors with similar history and would love to see it!
@@chrissimpkins4144 Still just in my notebook in a chart form!
Fortunately I live in Missouri which has the Missouri Military Museum. Even though they have a large amount of holdings, it isn't complete. One thing is to have an understanding that National Guard Units aren't always considered a part of the entire federal forces in some battles. This can leave you looking for information that isn't there. Start with the closest information before moving outward. - Next part of things to consider in the bigger picture is that Ohio is what I think of as a crossroads state. It had cousins that were parts of families who moved on over the last 60 to 70 years before the war. - Newspapers - newspapers - newspapers were the media of the time and some interesting in formation can be as far away as the west coast. However some isn't going to be available on internet websites. I've had to request reels of film and use the geneaologist's aerobic exercise of cranking through the images. Perhaps it sounds intimidating, well ok I confess it is. Each unit has records in diferent places and families can have records in different places. Good luck in your hunt!
Wow. Thanks so much for sharing all of your insights. I've learned a lot and you've got me thinking
There are some county maps that show names of land owners/farmers. Not sure if these go back into the 1860's; the ones I've seen were produced in late 1800's.
Yes. That would be extremely helpful once I figure out where folks are from. I know Ohio has many plat maps, which were helpful in my German Immigrant ancestry research. But I'll make a note about consulting plat maps later in the project.
While I have not seen it, I understand there is a multivolume series documenting the medical history of people in the US Civil War. If you could find the series, it might go a long way towards answereing some of your questions.
@TerryBlair-i7c What a great tip. Thanks for sharing. I have it on my list of things to explore.
I found lots of information from the diaries of the officers of the units.
I haven't tapped into diaries yet. That's for when Cinco graduates and I'm in Columbus, Ohio for a bit.
My 2x GGF fought with the 25th Ohio Infantry, even though he was from Portland, Michigan.
And now I REALLY want to know why that is. There are some men from "outside' Ohio that served in this regiment but I'm not sure why.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics Maybe because he grew up in Ohio. In Seneca County.
Gotcha. That makes sense
I also do the FAN Club tag in ancestry with links to my family to the floating tree I created to build the family I built for that friens
Great idea! If I had started with a tree first, I think this is a great tip. Thanks for sharing. I'll file it away for future consideration.
I have found more genealogy info from distant cousins that some of the documents and photos were passed down to them.
That's a great discovery. Yes, distant cousin research is the best. I have obtained a copy of my German Immigrant ancestor's naturalization certificate this way.
Sounds like you need a graph database to map out the connections.
I'm not sure what a graph database is, but I'll definitely need to research that.
I would contact the Ohio ANG state Headquarters. There should be an state military historian and archives. Being a short lived unit there my not be much, but one never knows. I have had little susses with information on my family as they fought for the south and so many southern records were lost.
I know southern research can be difficult. However, I will take that tip into account for the Ohio ANG State Headquarters.
I was thinking that Excel would be useful for your reseach.
I have a love-hate relationship with Excel. I had to go with a different spreadsheet when Excel became a subscription model. However, Excel will come into play a little later in the series. So it does have some powerful tools that Google Sheets doesn't have. So again - love/hate.
It's very useful, particularly when it comes to created a GEDCOM file from the spreadsheet information. Alas, I don't have it on my computer so I used GoogleSheets. But as I shared in a later video, I did go to the library and use Excel after I created the initial spreadsheet and needed a way to create a GEDCOM file.