re: #119 freetoken

Most of my reading has been about stuff related to my family tree, as I work through families. E.g., the French-Indian war, or the War of 1812. When one is digging for actual archival material, somehow the past seems more real than reading about it in a textbook.

I became very interested in the Colonial Period because my ancestors were colonists on Long Island and in NJ. My ggggf was in the NJ militia during the Revolution, and his brothers and several in-laws also served in the military.