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Tip of the Week: search Archive.org

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I was reading the excellent genealogy blog on  https://wasgs.org/blog , and came across the Tip of the Week: https://wasgs.org/blog/2017/12/01/seattle-genealogical-society-tip-of-the-week-58/  about surname search in the National Archives Catalog . Just put your surname of interest in the search box at the top right of the home page: http://archives.gov . I did so and my first hit was an unknown cousin! I searched for "baysinger" and the first hit was  https://www.archives.gov/files/research/military/vietnam-war/casualty-lists/wa-alpha.pdf . I was both saddened and proud to read of my cousin's sacrifice and service. Using MyHeritage to search for Donald Freeman Baysinger  with the keywords of his hometown Buckley, Pierce County, Washington where my daddy used to live, led right to FamilySearch  where I found his family tree. We share gxgrandparents Peter Baysinger 1808–1886 and Elizabeth Rice 1814–1895 whose gravestone my cousin Terri placed for them in the Bea