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SUMMARY:United States Military Records from the Revolutionary War to Vietnam and Handwriting and Spelling Variations
DESCRIPTION:Sold Out!The Beginning classes are sold out for 2022! \n\n\n\n\n\nUnited States Military Records from the Revolutionary War to Vietnam\n\n\n\nMilitary Records are an excellent source of genealogy records. They cover a wide range of record data\, ranging from enlistment\, muster\, pay\, pension\, medical\, mission\, and combat. Record quality and quantity increase and improve over time\, with few records being available in the pre-colonial era outside of specialized libraries and histories\, to the significant volume of records available for the modern wars (Civil War\, WWI\, WWII through Recent Wars). \n\n\n\nClass Instructor: Gus Reinwald\n\n\n\nI was born in Lock Haven\, a small\, rural Pennsylvania town. I was named Royce Augustus Reinwald\, after an uncle and great-grandfather. My childhood years and school days\, including high school and college\, were in this town\, ending with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts from Lock Haven State College. \n\n\n\nMy college days were interrupted by a four-year stint in the U.S. Army Security Agency\, a part of the National Security Agency. This stint included one year in language school at the Presidio of Monterey\, California learning Vietnamese. Then\, one year in Vietnam working as a translator in support of the 3rd \n\n\n\nMarine Division in Phu Bai near the imperial city of Hue in central Vietnam. After Vietnam\, I worked at the National Security Agency\, located at Ft. Meade\, Maryland near Washington\, DC. \n\n\n\nThe Army behind me\, I married my childhood sweetheart\, finished college and started a family. I worked 32 years in the general aviation industry for Piper Aircraft and Lycoming Engines\, mostly in Customer Service and Sales. During this career\, I worked in Lock Haven\, PA\, Vero Beach\, FL\, and Williamsport\, PA\, retiring in 2004. My wife and I “found” Amelia Island and Fernandina Beach through our youngest daughter who was living in Jacksonville. Since we always wanted to move back to Florida\, we decided to retire here. We did so in July of 2006\, buying a home in North Hampton. We have two lovely daughters and four precious grandchildren. \n\n\n\nI became interested in genealogy in 1991 when I was unemployed for a year. My father had inherited a trunk full of letters\, photos\, and family documents\, including a diary written by a great-grandfather who emigrated from Scotland to Montreat at age 18. I read this diary on airplane flights while job hunting\, and was hooked on finding out more about all my ancestors. With the help of Dad’s trunk and much research\, my database (RootsMagic) includes over 3\,000 individual and 900 families. Some family lines go back 17 generations\, with two ancestors arriving on the Mayflower. I am currently focused on documenting family stories and less on finding individuals. \n\n\n\nI am also very happy that I have found and joined the Amelia Island Genealogical Society and served a term as Treasurer and President. \n\n\n\nHandwriting and Spelling Variations\n\n\n\nJean will instruct the class on the various ways our ancestors names can be found within records\, with a look at various handwriting examples. In the world of genealogical records you will need to remember how to read cursive again! \n\n\n\nClass Instructor: Jean Dixon Mann\n\n\n\nJean is a 6th generation Floridian. Her Dixon ancestors had Spanish Land Grants in 1805 in western Nassau County where she was born. She grew up in Fernandina Beach and was a member of the last class to graduate from the “old” high school which now houses the Nassau Countty School Board. Jean is a graduate of Florida State University in Tallahassee with a teaching degree in Elementary Education. Shortly after graduation\, she was married and left Florida while followed her husband through his military and finance careers. They returned to Fernandina Beach in 1992 after 18 other moves! This is the only place she ever wanted to live! Her interest in genealogy began when she was a teenager after finding three family Bibles. Her serious dive into her ancestry began in 1985 when she pursued membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution. \n\n\n\nJean has compiled and published genealogies on four of her famiy lines – Dixon\, Phinney\, Limbaugh and Anderson. Additionally\, she has published the genealogy of the Domingo and Mary Fernandez family whose plantation was located in what is now Fernandina and edited a genealogy of James Bordeaux and his Sioux wife\, Huntkalutawin. \n\n\n\nJean is the last charter member of AIGS and has been the only editor of “The Nassau County Genealogist\,” the quarterly publication\, since its inception in 1994. She has served as president of the Society and is currently a member of the Board of Directors.
URL:https://aigensoc.org/event/united-states-military-records-from-the-revolutionary-war-to-vietnam-and-handwriting-and-spelling-variations/
LOCATION:Fernandina Beach Library\, 25 N 4th St\, Fernandina Beach\, FL\, 32034\, United States
CATEGORIES:Beginner Classes
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