#warof1812 — Public Fediverse posts

🧩This Week's #ConnectionCheckers War of 1812 Challenge 🎆

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/97mKRBeJR_U

On September 12, Maryland celebrates Defenders Day — the anniversary of the American victory at Fort McHenry, the battle that gave the United States its national anthem. This week's game, sponsored by the Maryland and Military and War projects, features twelve notable figures from the War of 1812.

Francis Scott Key wrote the words. Mary Pickersgill sewed the enormous flag he saw still flying at dawn. Dolley Madison rescued Washington's portrait before the British burned the White House. Andrew Jackson and William Henry Harrison both went on to the presidency. Laura Secord walked twenty miles through enemy lines to warn the British of an American advance. And several of the twelve fought on the other side entirely.

Which of them is closest to you on WikiTree's Big Tree? Check your connection, then try to verify it. In seven days, three members go into the Connection Checkers Hall of Fame: shortest verified path, longest verified path, and most verified connection steps.

New to the game? You don't need to know where to start. Post the connection you plan to attempt and the community will help you work it out.

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/2080681

#WarOf1812 #DefendersDay #FortMcHenry #WhereGenealogistsCollaborate #CollaborativeGenealogy #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #WikiTree

🧩This Week's #ConnectionCheckers War of 1812 Challenge 🎆

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/97mKRBeJR_U

On September 12, Maryland celebrates Defenders Day — the anniversary of the American victory at Fort McHenry, the battle that gave the United States its national anthem. This week's game, sponsored by the Maryland and Military and War projects, features twelve notable figures from the War of 1812.

Francis Scott Key wrote the words. Mary Pickersgill sewed the enormous flag he saw still flying at dawn. Dolley Madison rescued Washington's portrait before the British burned the White House. Andrew Jackson and William Henry Harrison both went on to the presidency. Laura Secord walked twenty miles through enemy lines to warn the British of an American advance. And several of the twelve fought on the other side entirely.

Which of them is closest to you on WikiTree's Big Tree? Check your connection, then try to verify it. In seven days, three members go into the Connection Checkers Hall of Fame: shortest verified path, longest verified path, and most verified connection steps.

New to the game? You don't need to know where to start. Post the connection you plan to attempt and the community will help you work it out.

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/2080681

#WarOf1812 #DefendersDay #FortMcHenry #WhereGenealogistsCollaborate #CollaborativeGenealogy #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #WikiTree

🧩This Week's #ConnectionCheckers War of 1812 Challenge 🎆

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/97mKRBeJR_U

On September 12, Maryland celebrates Defenders Day — the anniversary of the American victory at Fort McHenry, the battle that gave the United States its national anthem. This week's game, sponsored by the Maryland and Military and War projects, features twelve notable figures from the War of 1812.

Francis Scott Key wrote the words. Mary Pickersgill sewed the enormous flag he saw still flying at dawn. Dolley Madison rescued Washington's portrait before the British burned the White House. Andrew Jackson and William Henry Harrison both went on to the presidency. Laura Secord walked twenty miles through enemy lines to warn the British of an American advance. And several of the twelve fought on the other side entirely.

Which of them is closest to you on WikiTree's Big Tree? Check your connection, then try to verify it. In seven days, three members go into the Connection Checkers Hall of Fame: shortest verified path, longest verified path, and most verified connection steps.

New to the game? You don't need to know where to start. Post the connection you plan to attempt and the community will help you work it out.

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/2080681

#WarOf1812 #DefendersDay #FortMcHenry #WhereGenealogistsCollaborate #CollaborativeGenealogy #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #WikiTree

🧩This Week's #ConnectionCheckers War of 1812 Challenge 🎆

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/97mKRBeJR_U

On September 12, Maryland celebrates Defenders Day — the anniversary of the American victory at Fort McHenry, the battle that gave the United States its national anthem. This week's game, sponsored by the Maryland and Military and War projects, features twelve notable figures from the War of 1812.

Francis Scott Key wrote the words. Mary Pickersgill sewed the enormous flag he saw still flying at dawn. Dolley Madison rescued Washington's portrait before the British burned the White House. Andrew Jackson and William Henry Harrison both went on to the presidency. Laura Secord walked twenty miles through enemy lines to warn the British of an American advance. And several of the twelve fought on the other side entirely.

Which of them is closest to you on WikiTree's Big Tree? Check your connection, then try to verify it. In seven days, three members go into the Connection Checkers Hall of Fame: shortest verified path, longest verified path, and most verified connection steps.

New to the game? You don't need to know where to start. Post the connection you plan to attempt and the community will help you work it out.

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/2080681

#WarOf1812 #DefendersDay #FortMcHenry #WhereGenealogistsCollaborate #CollaborativeGenealogy #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #WikiTree

🧩This Week's #ConnectionCheckers War of 1812 Challenge 🎆

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/97mKRBeJR_U

On September 12, Maryland celebrates Defenders Day — the anniversary of the American victory at Fort McHenry, the battle that gave the United States its national anthem. This week's game, sponsored by the Maryland and Military and War projects, features twelve notable figures from the War of 1812.

Francis Scott Key wrote the words. Mary Pickersgill sewed the enormous flag he saw still flying at dawn. Dolley Madison rescued Washington's portrait before the British burned the White House. Andrew Jackson and William Henry Harrison both went on to the presidency. Laura Secord walked twenty miles through enemy lines to warn the British of an American advance. And several of the twelve fought on the other side entirely.

Which of them is closest to you on WikiTree's Big Tree? Check your connection, then try to verify it. In seven days, three members go into the Connection Checkers Hall of Fame: shortest verified path, longest verified path, and most verified connection steps.

New to the game? You don't need to know where to start. Post the connection you plan to attempt and the community will help you work it out.

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/2080681

#WarOf1812 #DefendersDay #FortMcHenry #WhereGenealogistsCollaborate #CollaborativeGenealogy #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #WikiTree

❓#QuestionOfTheWeek Where were your ancestors during the War of 1812? ⚔️

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/034Cj0SblCM

Between 1812 and 1815 the war reached across a wide stretch of North America — the Great Lakes and Canadian border, the Chesapeake, the Gulf Coast, and the Atlantic shipping lanes. Some families sent men into militia units or onto ships, some had homes and farms disrupted by campaigns passing through, and many others were simply living their ordinary lives well away from any of it.

All three answers are worth recording. Service records, pension applications, land bounty warrants, and militia muster rolls from this period can pin down where an ancestor was and who they were with — and the absence of a record is its own useful clue about where a family stood.

Where were yours?

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/2080399

#WarOf1812 #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #WhereGenealogistsCollaborate #CollaborativeGenealogy #Ancestry #History