Dear Marilyn and Cousins on the List: There are a couple of "official" places where your Stewart Herbert might be listed. Locally, if you have access to a genealogical library, check the printed volumes of the Pennsylvania archives. They have a pretty good genealogy collection at the Spokane Public Library, but I'm not sure how far that is for you! Maybe a cousin that has access to the print copies could look it up for you. The other official source would be the National Archives for what they term (or used to) their Old Wars files. As you know, if you've ever ordered Pension files or Service records for other military service, it is a long, time consuming process. I found a book by a Jeffrey G. Herbert. " Index to Indian Wars Pension Ffiles," which was an interesting combination of interests. For other cousins, there are similar books and indexes for other military involvements. Also, there are often lists like this on the individual county websites, and if all else fails, you could order through the LDS family History Center. With his age, and In Lancaster county, it is very likely he participated in the ongoing confrontations. The British call the French and Indian Wars the Seven Years War, and it contributed mightily to the Revolutionary War, as George III (the Other Georgie, Jim) struggled to refill the kingly coffers to pay for it. George Washington and Christopher Gist were central to the beginning, going on an icy spying expedition against the French which nearly did them both in around the region of what is now Pittsburgh in the dead of winter. Both Virginia and Pennsylvania began building forts for defense, and Gist and Washington wrote descriptions of what was needed. There is a detailed map drawn by Washington which is very handy for identifying backcountry localities of our ancestors. And, also in the back country, other players, Abraham and Isaac Pennington! Washington complained in his journal about his frontier lodgings with Isaac Pennington! Cousins! I have found a wonderful new tool -- a search engine called Google. Despite the name, it is much more efficient than the ones I've been using. I've been discovering all kinds of detail about the families I'm tracking. For instance I plugged in Lancaster Pennsylvania Indian Wars Herbert and got some really specific listings. Herbert limits this, of course. http://www.google.com Personal to Jim -- early???? I have had the same problems, and was also worried, but I discovered it was simply that I'd forgotten to buy coffee. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

Greetings, Carolyn -- & others! Glad you found Google -- it is the best searcher, without question. Even if you have only part of the title for what you want, it can find it and related items. And, if it tells you it can't find the exact item, it gives that neat option of asking for the "portion" you entered -- and it works like a charm!! Mary P.S. Will be changing, or at least adding a 2nd, e-mail address. Because I own a Mac, nothing works for installing a new AT&T "local" network number. Such is life in the networked country called the U.S.A.!