History Noyds Question

whlinder

What does one do with family diaries from the 1860s?

Some ancestor of mine wrote them. A lot of them. I’ve been told he was a soldier for the North but it’s hard to know if that’s just family lore/wishful thinking. But given our ancestry is from upstate NY it’s likely he was a Union soldier.

They are now in my possession since my parents held them in a box for close to 40 years and are now downsizing. They’ve never been transcribed. I’d be curious to have that happen, especially if in fact they contain day to day details of the war which could add to our* collective knowledge.



Ideas?

Purple_Pills

whlinder said:

What does one do with family diaries from the 1860s?

Digitize it and email it out to the fam. That’s what my dad did with the diary of his GGGFather who was a brave musical instrument player for the Union in the Civil War.

PurpleThrobber

Purple_Pills said:

whlinder said:

What does one do with family diaries from the 1860s?

Digitize it and email it out to the fam. That’s what my dad did with the diary of his GGGFather who was a brave musical instrument player for the Union in the Civil War.

Run it through 23 and me DNA so you aren't brb, jo'ing to your great-great-grandma.

RaceBannon

There's money in those diaries

YellowSnow

RaceBannon said:

There's money in those diaries

My dearest Martha

whlinder

RaceBannon said:

There's money in those diaries

How big is the Race Bannon market segment?