Daily Genealogist

An alert Goodwill employee in Butte, Montana, prevented a donated binder of genealogical information and family photographs from being discarded — and managed to return it to the grateful owner.

Jack Bilow of Plattsburgh, New York, has published A War of 1812 Death Register — Whispers in the Dark, a book which contains more than 20,000 names of militia members from New York, Vermont, and Pennsylvania, most of whom died along the U.S.–Canadian border.

New campaigns are underway to encourage the donation of Civil War-era material to state and local archives.

SIBERIA (f or m): Presumably, from the place name [now a vast portion of the Russian Federation encompassing almost all of Northern Asia]. Siberia A. (Scott) Campbell, daughter of Timothy Scott, d. Lempster, N.H., 2 Aug. 1885, age 68. The 1900 U.S. census enumerated eighteen people (both male and female) with the first name Siberia — from Mr. Siberia Ott (b. 1822 in New York) in Aiken, South Carolina, to Siberia Gonzalez, a baby girl (born 1899 in Texas) in Medina, Texas.