I recently returned from a work trip to Washington, D.C., where we led 27 genealogists on a research tour, which included the National Archives (Archives I) and the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Library. It was an amazing week! It has been almost 20 years since I visited the DC area to visit the Smithsonian museums. I pulled a few files to review at the National Archives, which I will put towards existing and new lectures. Having the experience of doing the research onsite at the National Archives and the DAR Library will help me prepare other genealogists for this onsite work. I also left with a new project which I will be working on (more details to come in the future).
I did get some tourism in and went to many different sites, including the Vietnam Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, the World War I Memorial, the World War II Memorial, the Holocaust Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Air and Space Museum, and the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum. So many emotions ran through me to finally see the World War II memorial which I helped fundraise money for back in high school; lighting a candle at the Holocaust Museum for my grandfather, who served with the Thunderbirds who liberated Dachau concentration camp; being in the same boarding house that Clara Barton worked out of to reunite families with missing soldiers from the Civil War; walking past the Emmett Till casket.
I've included some photos below from my trip. Have you been to Washington, D.C.? If so, what's your favorite places to visit.
