Discover Your Past: Finding Your 19th Century Ancestors on Fold3. Is There a Better Way?

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Ever get confused on Fold3? Learn what records are available for your 19th-century military ancestors there, and pick up some search strategies to narrow down what you’re looking for. Yes, there is a better way to search!

Brian Rhinehart is a professional genealogist and speaker and is the owner of CivilWarRecords.com (https://civilwarrecords.com/). He is a graduate of Boston University’s Certificate of Genealogy Research and the Genealogical Institute on Federal Records (GenFed) in Washington, D.C.  A direct descendant of six Civil War soldiers, Brian specializes in research and record retrieval for Civil War and War of 1812 soldiers at the National Archives in Washington D.C., and has retrieved military files for hundreds of clients there.