Hello from Indiana, I joined the list because of a genealogy interest (ie, my great grandfather's Civil War records state that he was a captured at the Wilderness and was a prisoner at Andersonville for nine months....living to return home to Pennsylvania); however, I think that everything that I can learn about his life experience adds to the total picture of the families that endured these times. For me, Genealogy research is not just the documenting of facts and figures in the records and I think your idea of general discussion is most interesting! GKapper@aol.com