Juli Claussen Search & Genealogy Services

01/04/2025

A team of forensic genealogists is working to identify a group of Maryland soldiers killed at the Battle of Camden, South Carolina, in 1780, 244 years ago. The men were buried in unmarked graves and they are known only as unknown soldiers.

Several soldiers who died at that battle were moved from the battlefield to a formal cemetery in 2023, and DNA samples were taken from the remains during that process.

With your help it may be possible to learn who these soldiers were. Read more about how you can contribute to this project: https://fhdforensics.com/camden-burials-identifications

09/07/2024

06/26/2024

“Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them.
They move on. They move away.
The moments that used to define them are covered by
moments of their own accomplishments.

It is not until much later, that
children understand;
their stories and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories
of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones,
beneath the water of their lives.”
Paul Coelho

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida - After the Bath, 1902.

05/06/2024

This Friday, May 10, at 3 pm, FCC 's Sacred Conversations on Racial Injustice discussion group invites you to come hear local (Sparta) author, Carol Pirtle, tell us about her research into Susan Richardson and her children's escape from enslavement in Sparta, accompanied by local farmer, William Hayes. Her book was published by SIU Press in 2000.