2/1/2007
By Diane Haddad and Anne Wilbur
Creative ways to save and share your family history.
Safe Keeping: war of words
On Veterans Day 1999, Dear Abby mentioned historian Andrew Carroll's small Legacy Project <warletters.com> to gather and preserve war letters between soldiers and their loved ones back home. Abby's readers dug into their attics and drawers, and sent 50,000 pieces of what Carroll calls history's undiscovered literature.