Daily Genealogist

The Huffington Postreports: A Vermont Army National Guard officer returned a Purple Heart to the family of the recipient, who had been killed in France during World War II.

Masslife reports: Ninety-five-year-old Montiel Roode McAuley recalls memories of her father, who served in the 9th Vermont Infantry. McCauley and her older brother number among the two dozen or less living “Real Sons and Daughters” of Civil War Union soldiers.

The Boston Channel reports: A slideshow of eighty-four rare color images from the Library of Congress offers a unique view of life in the United States in the 1930s.