genealogical research services

Research by Rossbacher

 

 

"That  clipping you found unlocked a 140-year-old family mystery."

"Only in our vainest imaginings do we inherit credit or
blame from forefathers. ...
Yet we may take their lives as gifts or examples."
~ father Richard Irwin Rossbacher,
Now Remembered: Living Pennsylvania History Through 1900
University Press of America, 1987

We have decades of experience tracking ancestry and unearthing military records from the Revolutionary War through the Civil War.  If you've hit a brick wall in a family tree (to mix a metaphor) or even if you're just starting from scratch, we can help.

Finding living descendants of people with whom inscribed or signed artifacts are associated is a specialty.  There's nothing we enjoy more than reuniting history with family.

We use primary resources, including censuses, period newspapers, family Bibles, town histories, and birth, death, marriage, and immigration records.

E-mail for a consulation or quote
or download a pdf for services and fees.

We do not commonly order military records from the National Archives for the simple reason that people can easily do that themselves online for just $25.  The following article will remove any mystery from the process.

NARA Record Ordering Demystified: 10 Easy Steps (.pdf)
from North South Trader's Civil War magazine
Vol. 33 No. 5, 2008

"Your article on demystifying record ordering from NARA was great, timely, and just what I needed. I sent a hard copy order to NARA about five years ago and am no longer waiting. Using your ten steps I reordered those records on 10/28/08 and they arrived 11/7/08!"
~ D. Hubbard, subscriber

We also research the makers and dealers of antique and vintage artifacts.  See our cover stories on Calvaire (Vol. 17 No. 3, 2007) and Bergere (Vol. 18 No. 3, 2008) in Lucille Tempesta's Vintage Fashion & Costume Jewelry. 

  

Our online Victorian and vintage costume jewelry store, Embellishments, is on hiatus due to publication schedules, but please enjoy some eye candy at our photo gallery

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Nancy Dearing Rossbacher
Managing editor, North South Trader's Civil War
Co-owner, CivilWarCollect nonprofit Listserve

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Links to other historical resources

If you're interested in the Civil War, you won't want to miss an issue of
 
North South Trader's Civil War magazine.

For the finest in authentic Civil War artifacts, books, and related materials, visit J.S. Mosby Antiques & Artifacts, either online or at the shop in historic Orange, Virginia.

Orange County is host to numerous historical sites, and none are more spiritual than stately St. Thomas's Episcopal Church, established in 1740. A house of wartime worship for such notables as Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, it stands today as a testament to the timelessness and durability of faith.  Visitors are warmly invited.  For a virtual tour, a history of the church, and information about services, please click on the image above.

 

"I can't believe how much material you found!"

"You've earned the title
'Ancestor Whisperer.'"

Civil War a specialty ~
we can flesh out the lives and times behind the names on your identified artifacts.

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