From our friends at FGS and the National Park Service …
August 8, 2016 – Austin, TX. and Brownsville, TX. The Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) and the National Park Service’s Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park announce a partnership to develop a searchable database of more than 130,000 soldiers of the U.S.-Mexican War.
The
database will allow descendants of U.S. soldiers to connect to their
personal history and help Palo Alto commemorate and tell the stories of
these soldiers. After the database is developed, unit histories,
digitized documents, and information on U.S.-Mexican War soldiers will
be added. Efforts will also be made to include names and information
about Mexican soldiers in this war.
"FGS
is thrilled to partner with the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic
Park for this important preservation project,” said FGS President D.
Joshua Taylor. “We look forward to working with our member societies and
volunteers to provide new access to records for those researching
the Mexican War."
Palo
Alto Battlefield is also pleased with the partnership. “National Parks
tell the stories of America,” said Superintendent Mark Spier. “Palo Alto
Battlefield is excited to have the opportunity to work with the
Federation of Genealogical Societies to tell the stories of the
thousands of soldiers who served in the U.S.-Mexican War.”
To
help bring these soldiers’ stories to life and to be a part of this
momentous preservation project, indexing volunteers should contact
Project Coordinator Patricia Rand, The Villages, FL, at projects@fgs.org.
The
Federation of Genealogical Societies and the National Park Service
previously partnered together in 1999 for the Civil War Soldiers and
Sailors System database project where FGS volunteers completed data
entry for more than five million names. The efforts of the CWSS project
can now be experienced on the NPS Civil War website.
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The US-Mexican War was fought between 1846 and 1848 for those that don't remember that part of American History class. It is not the border skirmishes that occurred in 1916 during the Mexican Revolution where we were trying to capture Poncho Villa who was making raids into the United States. This is the first thing I thought of when I saw the announcement especially when it mentioned Brownsville, Texas. I obviously didn't pay strict attention to military battles in class either.
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