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Find your roots and hear your ancestors' words across the generations. Discover your origins in old letters as ancestors tell their stories and reveal family relationships, past events, moments in time and details of family history. Add branches to your family tree as you search your ancestry and build your genealogy.

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Whitesborough, New York, 1841

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Letter by Laura Dexter of Whitesborough, New York, 1841, with postmarked integral address leaf to Edward North and reads in part: "McLe...
Friday, September 26, 2008

Andrew J. Glover Rockingham County, New Hampshire

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A 3 page letter with a red paper seal on the front., from the State of New Hampshire., Rockingham County., an order to the sheriff. A citiz...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Kokomo Indiana Love Letters

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Up for auction on Ebay is a group of 40 handwritten vintage love letters to a woman by the name of Daisy B. Smith who lived in Kokomo Indian...
Sunday, September 21, 2008

New Orleans 1846

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Letter written March 22, 1846 from New Orleans by Hiram A. Goodlett to his mother, Mrs. Harriet Goodlett, in Alexandria, Benton Co. Alabama....
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

1864 Civil War Letter Horace Holton

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1864 Civil War Letter written by a Mississippi Riverboat Captain relating to work on the river with his Sidewheeler - the "Polar Star...
Monday, September 08, 2008

1864 Charles N. Sake

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LETTER DATED JUNE 12TH, 1864. A letter from Yonkers [New York] by Charles N. Sake? addressed to his mother. Dear mother I am thinking it is...
Sunday, September 07, 2008

Mobile Alabama 1866

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Letter from Israel Putnam. Malone Books, Stationery, Fancy Goods, etc 52 Dauphin Street, Mobile Alabama. Dated Feb 19, 1866. It is a letter ...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Rahway, New Jersey 1872

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To the mayor of Rahway, New Jersey. In full: “There died at this place on the 8th inst. Of Typhoid Fever a young man of the name of Geo. Jac...
Saturday, August 30, 2008

Concord, Massachusetts 1818

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Document dated 1818, Concord, Massachusetts, where Peter Wilson has written to 'Friend Hamilton' of Hamilton and Wood; regarding shi...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

H.L. Roberts Civil War Letter

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An original Civil War letter which includes the envelope which has the address of Cambridge Maryland. It is dated Load's Chester Co. Va...
Friday, August 15, 2008

Private P.J. Murphy 1917

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Three page typewritten letter, dated November 4, 1917, from "Somewhere in France". Private P.J. Murphy, Company D, 14th Engineers ...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

1778 William Jackson

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Original letter dated 1778, where William Jackson has written to a Lt. Croker, of the 28th Regiment at Truro, regarding the estate left by h...
Sunday, August 10, 2008

Berkshire, Massachusetts 1822

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I found this great old letter for sale on Ebay Item number: 280253517331 It is full of great info and would be a great find for someone who ...
Monday, August 04, 2008

Order Of Arrest For John Steffe 1819

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This order of arrest dated July 23, 1819. To the Sheriff of Baltimore County, State of Maryland, to arrest John Steffe, to answer to Adam S...
Thursday, June 26, 2008

Salem, Massachusetts 1836

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Two letters, probably written by brothers from Salem, Massachusetts, to an uncle Roswell Morgan in West Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1827 ...
Sunday, June 15, 2008

Kate Stewart, Home Child's Letter to Brother in England 1885

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Westminster Dec 11th 85 [1885] Dear Brother Johnny, I received your letter & was very pleased to hear from you, & hope you will writ...
Friday, June 13, 2008

WWII Letter from Donald Malcolm Delaney of Nova Scotia

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March 15, 1944 2300 hrs. Somewhere in Italy G 43024 G.M. D.M. Delaney1 2 C.M.R. R.C.A. C.M.F. C.A.O. My Dear Father: This letter will undoub...
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

American Expeditionary Forces 1919 Memo

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MEMO FROM EDWARD J. EARLY TO MAJOR PHILLIPS: American Expeditionary Forces Signal Corps Replacement Depot Office of the Zone Major A.P.O. 92...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Lt. Walter E. Lick

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Letter from Soldier-Pilot W. Lick. To Lt. Walter E. Lick. Ellington Field Barracks 52, 2nd Prov. Squad, Olcott Texas. Letters From His Wife ...
Monday, June 09, 2008

William Blake Letter of 1847, Upper Canada

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William Blake Letter of 1847 With Notations Mrs. Mary Richards (1) In Care Of Captain William Richards (2) Perth (3), Upper Canada America B...
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