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The Best of AncestorNews: Revolutionary War Ancestors
I read a recent article in Time magazine about how Americans are cozying up to Revolutionary War-era politicians like never before. Supporting that theory is the popularity of books like David McCullough's John Adams (Simon & Schuster, $18.95) and Joseph Ellis' Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Vintage, $14).
When, in 1774, John Adams wrote his wife Abigail, "We live, my dear soul, in an age of trial. What will be the consequence, I know not," he certainly couldn't have imagined what lay in America's path. Thousands and thousands of patriots took up an unheard of cause-the dissolution of a bond of "ownership" between an empire and its possession.
For today's genealogists, tracing their heritage back to a Revolutionary War patriot is an act of pride, and oftentimes a step toward joining a lineage organization like the Daughters of the American Revolution.
I found my first patriot ancestor a number of years ago. Since then, as I've discovered more branches, I've come up with a half-dozen Revolutionaries. It seems that the broader my research becomes, the more soldiers I find. I'm willing to bet you'll find the same.
To learn more about your Revolutionary War ancestors:
• Revolutionary War Military Records
• Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants
• Sons of the American Revolution
• American Revolutionary War Soldiers & Their Descendants
• Loyalist Genealogy Nancy Hendrickson is a contributing editor for Family Tree Magazine. She also is a family historian, freelance writer
and the author of two astronomy books. Her Web site
is at www.ancestornews.com. E-mail her at stjoemo@pobox.com.
by Nancy Hendrickson
• Revolutionary War Genealogy Books
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