With genealogy, military history gets personal

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With genealogy, military history gets personal

“Watch out,” a good friend warned a couple of years ago when I said I had just signed up for an Ancestry.com account. “Once you learn about these people, you’ll become obsessed with finding out more. It’ll become addicting.”

He was right. The research turned up incredible stories about previously unknown characters, circumstances and mysteries in my family roots. …