Norman Gasbarro | July 22, 2018
An undated linen picture post card of Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina, probably produced in the 1930s or 1940s. ______________________________ Image provided by Debby Rabold, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from a family collection.
Norman Gasbarro | July 17, 2018
This post calls attention to a records collection now available on Ancestry.com. That records collection is of claims submitted by Pennsylvania residents for recompense for damages caused by the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Ancestry gives the following background information and describes what could be found in the records: Pennsylvania and Maryland bore […]
Norman Gasbarro | June 11, 2018
This post will identify and review two additional, readily-available print sources of information on the Ku Klan Klan in Pennsylvania in the 20th Century. This 20th Century iteration of the Klan was a re-incarnation of the first Klan that came about after the Civil War to deny rights to Freedmen by using terror and intimidation. […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 13, 2018
For the 17 May 1917 edition of the Lykens Standard, Claude Keiser, son of Civil War Veteran Henry Keiser and a member of the local Sons of Veterans, provided a list of soldiers of that war and other wars who were buried in the Lykens cemeteries. ____________________________ I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Lykens William P. Miller —–Jonathan Hoffman […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 21, 2018
From a listing that appeared in the Lykens Standard, 17 May 1917, compiled by Claude Keiser, a member of the Sons of Veterans, the name of George Willis appears as a burial in the Union Cemetery, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Keiser, in supplying the information, which included all the Lykens cemeteries. indicated that his list […]
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