Past Voices: Letters Home

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.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

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CORTLAND VILLAGE N.Y. DEC 11, a 5 cents rate, and is addressed to Frederick Hyde, M.D., Geneva, Ontario co., NY and is a three page letter w...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Union Civil War Soldier's Letter 1863

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Potomac Creek Bridge ca 1861 to 1865 Union Civil War soldier's letter, dated Camp Massachusetts, Near Potomac Creek, Jan 28 1863, fr...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Quarryville, Pennsylvania,

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15 Letters Mailed to Teenager Joseph Denny of Quarryville, Pennsylvania Dated 1926 to 1929 Most Letters while Joseph was a Patient in Penns...
Saturday, February 05, 2011

Havana, Cuba, Jun 23 1806

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Havana, Cuba, Jun 23 1806, from Messrs. Gay & Bowen, to Charles Churchill, Newbern, North Carolina, with black Charleston/ SC, Jul 3 (1...
Monday, January 31, 2011

Union Civil War officer's letter dated Baltimore, Maryland, Oct 2 1864

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Union Civil War officer's letter dated Baltimore, Maryland, Oct 2 1864, from 1st LT James McMillan, Company "C," 141st New Yor...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

US Naval Personnel Separation Center 1946

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Letter posted Jun 21, 1946 Long Beach, from US Naval Personnel Separation Center, Lido Beach, Long Island, New York, June 18, 1946. It is t...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

1843 Brooklyn New York letter install heat city jail

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Letter from David Anderson to James G Bergen, Fort Hamilton Post Office, Kings County, New York. Anderson writes that he has inspected the ...
Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Scottish Immigrant, Mr. George Thompson

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Civil War letter from a Scottish immigrant, Mr. George Thompson, resident in Cincinnati, Ohio, to family in Galashiels, Scotland. Dated Aug...
Monday, December 06, 2010

Florence, Kansas 1886

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Letter handwritten by JOHN M. ARCHER of Florence, Kansas - KS and dated January 7, 1886. The letter was written to Reverend John W. Hancher....
Saturday, December 04, 2010

Sarah Ann Eddy of Eagle Harbor New York

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“May 21st, 1870? Mother, I am sorry to hear of Emily’s feeling badly. If I could see her a little while I could tell her how bad I had felt…...
Thursday, December 02, 2010

KIA Private Julius J. Bardoni WW2 Letters

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Find A Grave Memorial# 56371053 World War II correspondence from Private Julius J. Bardoni, Wyandotte, Michigan, 1941 - 1944. Some exc...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory 1879

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Very interesting letter from, a man with his brother, who were locked up in a Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, jail dated Apr 17 1879, to a Mr. ...
Monday, November 29, 2010

Thomas Simons of South Carolina

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6 letters, dated 1790s, from Thomas Simons of South Carolina, written from Charleston SC, Newport, Rhode Island and New Haven, Connecticut, ...
Sunday, November 28, 2010

39th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

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Union Civil War soldier's letter, written in pencil, dated Camp 39th Reg. Wisconsin Volunters, Memphis, Tennessee, Monday, Aug 29 1864, ...
Friday, November 26, 2010

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...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

1829 St Clairsville Ohio to Staunton Virginia

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Letter from St Clairsville, Ohio to Staunton, Virginia. It was written from John Hinton who had recently made his way to Ohio to start a new...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Edwin S. Kortz and Jennie E. Kern

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These are the handwritten love letters of Edwin S. Kortz and Jennie E. Kern. There are also letters involving the Kortz’s children, Isabella...
Friday, November 05, 2010

William Peter Maxwell of Brown University, Rhode Island 1798

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2 page letter dated 1798, from William Peter Maxwell to William Green, both alumni of Brown University, Rhode Island....where Maxwell gives ...
Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Camp Stevens 1862

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Camp Stevens Nov. 16, 1862 / Mr. J. H. Greenwood / Dear Sir / Will you see that James Lynch returns to Camp tomorrow morning in the 11 ocloc...
Monday, November 01, 2010

Camp Michigan, Virginia,1862

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Alexandria Virginia Soldier's Cemetery ca 1861-1865 Union Civil War soldier's letter dated Camp Michigan, Virginia, Feb 2 1862, ...
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