Ancestry.com Free Access Week April 7-14

Ancestry.com Free Access Week April 7-14 Search millions of Civil War era records free at ancestry.com durin the week of April 7-14
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The National Archives and Ancestry.com published newly digitized Civil War records online for the first time Wednesday, allowing users to trace family links to the war between North and South.
Nearly 275,000 newly published pages are among the most heavily used documents for research in the National Archives’ Civil War holdings, curators said. The pages contain about 3 million names of those who enlisted for a draft from 1863 to 1865, though only about 40,000 were drafted to fight.
Archivists estimate 17 million Americans have an ancestor who fought in the war. Many may not know about their family ties.
Tracing genealogy is becoming a fast-growing hobby and even “fashionable” with a Friday night TV show devoted to celebrity family histories, said Josh Hanna, executive vice president of Ancestry.com. The company sponsors the NBC show and invested $100 million in digitizing historical records.