Pro-genealogists Top 50 Genealogy Web Sites
Congratulate us! DistantCousin.com made the grade of the top 50 most popular genealogy web sites as compiled by the folks at ProGenealogists.com. This list was compiled as a result of study of website traffic rankings as computed by Alexa.com, Compete.com, Quantcast.com, and Ranking.com. We don't usually put much stock in these sorts of things - they're nice and that's about it - but your intrepid webmaster needs something to brag about right now! Here is our award:  Labels: Site News
Story of the Forty Seventh (Heavy Artillery), 1919
We are pleased to provide for your free use:The Story of the Forty Seventh (Heavy Artillery), 1919 - Being the History of a Regiment of Heavy Artillery made up of men from every state in the Union, from its formation to demobilization, written by members of the regiment."The Forty-seventh Coast Artillery Corps was organized in August, 1918, at Camp Eustis, near Norfolk, Virginia. To this camp were sent men from nearly all the coast defenses of the United States, but mainly from Fort McKinley, Maine; Fort Trotten, New York; Fort Hancock, New Jersey; and the coast defenses of California and Texas. They assembled gradually, group by group, until there were sufficient men and officers to fill the quota for our regiment. We found that every State in the Union was represented, but the majority of our men were sons of Illinois, New York and Texas." This publication contains a complete roster as well as numerous accounts of the experiences of the men, many of which are quite humourous. I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did.Labels: Military
Newport, Rhode Island 1921 City Directory
Twelfth U. S. Infantry, 1919
We are pleased to make available for your free use the following publication:Twelfth U. S. Infantry, Its Story - By Its Men, 1919 Compiled by John P. Wall This publication tells the story of the 12th before, during and after their participation in the "Great War." Many photographs have been scanned including the officers, camps, etc. of the Twelfth. The publication includes a full roster which can be searched from the following form: (enter last name): Labels: Military
Site Problems Cleared
After about a week of sleepless nights and extraordinarily boring tasks, the problems on the server seem to have been cleaned up, at least for the time being. Searching should function properly 99.9% of the time now. If the problem resurfaces, we will migrate to a new server. Thank you for your patience. We can now get back to putting new data online.Labels: Site News
Site Problems
If you've been on DistantCousin.com recently, perhaps you were surprised to find little or no data pertaining to your surname(s) of interest. That's most likely not because we didn't have any data. We have just become aware of a problem with our server. We are trying to fix it now but I'll make no guarantees. Traffic volume has caused the service by which we index our pages and make them searchable to overload. For example, the surname "Jones" right now returns no hits in, for example, the military records section. Obviously, that's not possible but that's what our server is returning to you when you search. If you have problems searching on DistantCousin.com, please do not assume we have no data. We should be able to clear this up within a few days.Labels: Site News
Brunswick Boys in the World War
We have added the following to our collection of World War I military records:Brunswick (Maine) Boys in the World War which was included in the Annual Report of the Selectman of the Town of Brunswick for the year from February 1, 1918 to February 1, 1919. This list was compiled by Thomas H. Riley, Jr., Brunswick Town Historian, and includes 496 soldiers and sailors who "claim allegiance to Brunswick either as citizens or former residents, who have done their bit in the great war."Labels: Military
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