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From: "jeff61" <>
Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] MDALLEGA Digest, Vol 5, Issue 15
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:41:13 -0500
In-Reply-To: <0BC2B3B8-026A-4463-8A55-FEA781342007@geatz.com>


I said that already

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Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] MDALLEGA Digest, Vol 5, Issue 15


Most of the folks who went to Turtle Creek went there to work for the
Westinghouse Air Brake Company.

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> Today's Topics:
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> 1. Re: Civil War Records (jeff61)
> 2. Re: Allegany County to PA (Pat Thompson)
> 3. Re: NARA WEBSITE (Jan Stoltenberg)
> 4. Re: Civil War Records (Marge)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:26:51 -0500
> From: "jeff61" <>
> Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] Civil War Records
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> So are you saying he could not stand by his convictions...???
>
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> [mailto:]On Behalf Of Marge
> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 21:24
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> Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] Civil War Records
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>
> There is a lot of conflict about the reasons for fighting for the
> North or
> the South. Most of my relatives were not rich enough to have slaves,
> they
> thought they were fighting for a way of life the North was taking
> away. But
> the odd thing was my great grandfather enlisted in the Confederacy,
> those in
> Virginia would go home and harvest the crops and return. Well my
> greatgrandfather was not paid by the South. We all know they had no
> money.
> So he had to feed his family. He failed to go back to the Southern
> Army,
> enlisted in the North. Got paid, got uniforms and he also received a
> pension. So sometimes the poor men were only trying to survive.
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:28:59 -0500
> From: "Pat Thompson" <>
> Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] Allegany County to PA
> To: <>
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> Reasons to go to PA in the mid and late 1800's----
>
> The American Civil War boosted the city's economy with increased
> production
> of iron and armaments. Steel production began by 1875, when Andrew
> Carnegie
> founded the Edgar Thomson Steel Works in North Braddock, which
> eventually
> evolved into the Carnegie Steel Company. The success and growth of
> Carnegie
> Steel was attributed to Henry Bessemer, inventor of the Bessemer
> Process.
>
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> From: [mailto:mdallega-
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> On Behalf Of Carol Nida
> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 8:58 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] Allegany County to PA
>
> My Valentine branch, whose ancestors had been in Allegany County
> since the
> late 1700's, moved to Turtle Creek, Alleghany Co, PA (outside of
> Pittsburgh)
> in the late 1890's. Later moved to McKeesport (also outside
> Pittsburgh).
> Don't know why. They had always been farmers.
>
>
>> One strange fact turned up that has puzzled me. He and his wife and
>> children lived in allegany co. from 1853 to l862 when he enlisted in
>> the army at Webster Pa. He was there until around 1866 when he
>> returned to allegany co. where he lived until his death in l890.
>> Does
>> anyone have any relatives that went from allegany co. to PA. This is
>> one of my big mysteries.
> Karen Creegan Cooper
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:24:08 -0600
> From: "Jan Stoltenberg" <>
> Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] NARA WEBSITE
> To: <>
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> Ruth, thank you for the NARA information. I just ordered the file.
> I need
> to study the site more, since there is probably much information
> available
> that I didn't know about.
>
> Jan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ruth Sprowls" <>
> To: "MDALLEGA" <>
> Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 10:26 AM
> Subject: [MDALLEGA] NARA WEBSITE
>
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>>
>>> http://www.archives.gov/>;
>>>
>> the fees listed below were for 2007, however I know that the complete
>> file of pension records cost is NOW over 100 bucks.
>>> Passenger arrival lists (NATF Form 81) $17.25
>>> Federal Census requests (NATF Form 82) $17.50
>>> Eastern Cherokee applications to the Court of Claims (NATF Form
>>> 83) $17.50
>>> Land entry records (NATF 84) $17.75
>>> Bounty land warrant application files (NATF Form 85) $17.25
>>> Pension files more than 75 years old (NATF Form 85) - complete
>>> file $37.00
>>> Pension documents packet (order form NATF Form 85) $14.75
>>> Military service files more than 75 years old (NATF Form 86)
>>> $17.00
>>
>> best of luck,
>> Ruth
>>>
>>>
>>>>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:48:55 -0600
> From: "Marge" <>
> Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] Civil War Records
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> I am saying I DON'T KNOW. I am saying he wanted to feed his family. I
> suppose there were a lot of southern troops who did the same. I
> don't blame
> any of them. The North had turned the War Between the States to
> something
> other than what it was, so why should the men who were fighting --
> fight for
> a cause that was taken away from them.
>
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