Have you ever shed a tear or had goose-bumps when reading through an old record? Seasoned researchers know what I mean and those more recently interested in family history have much to look forward to.

Did the item make your eyes teary, solve a family mystery, or give a sought-after breakthrough? Did it tell about the person's unhappy interaction with the government and maybe show a stubborn streak of an ancestor? Did it show how unfairly the government treated a group of immigrants? Did the record show that an ancestor was a proud citizen? The records of the U.S. National Archives and other governmental entities are full of such emotion producing records.

U.S. Post Office Records
When Kathy Deiss of Wisconsin attended the National Institute on Genealogical Research at the National Archives she learned about U.S. Post Office records. When a petition was...

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