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Free Civil War Website Available - But For a Limited Time, So Hurry!
By Kathy Jones-Kristof | April 17, 2008
The Alexander Street Website’s free access is now closed to the public. Their website can only be accessed through membership or through access to a library that has a membership Contact your local Public Library, or College, University or Museum Library that has a membership to see if they offer public access.
You can access Civil War information on the Soliders and Sailors System Website for free at any time.
Good news! Due to the wonderful response Alexander Street Press received for their April open house of their online Civil War archive, they have extended their public access through June 30, 2008. Thank you, Alexander Street Press!
Below is my orginial post about this website:
It’s free, it’s great, and it’s for a limited time. Best of all, it’s everything a genealogist wants to know about the Civil War; who the soldiers were, what battles their regiments fought in, what songs were the men singing as they marched to battle and who was writing diaries about the whole affair.
Alexander Street Press is a database that has lots of great information–but it’s usually only accessible at libraries, colleges and universities that subscribe to their website. That is until now, and I mean right now. To celebrate the bicentennials of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, the Alexander Street Press has opened their extensive Civil War databases up to the public through the end of April 2008. Oh, happy day!
These databases are the best repository for Civil War information I’ve come across. The Research Database is incredibly easy to use. I found all but one of my soldier-ancestors. He fought in the same regiment as his cousin, who had the exact same name. The cousin was listed on the website but the identical names may have caused my ancestor to get lost during research, which is better than being lost during battle so I’m not complaining.
Check out the music or read the diaries. Search the magazines and newspapers. But do it soon, before the end of April, or this rare opportunity will be gone.
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June 10th, 2008 at 11:14 am
[...] originally wrote about Alexander Street Press’ website in a post on April 17 of this year, titled Free Civil War Website Available - But For a Limited Time, So Hurry! I won’t repeat myself here, except to say that the Research Database is incredibly easy to [...]