As an official new newbie... I had to write & tell you guys I did my first bit of investigation & got more than I had dreamed I would!!! My g.g.grandfather, Dr. Henry Clay Beall, was said to have gone to med school at WA U in St Louis, MO around 1900. I called & got directed to the medical school archivist who couldn't find him in the list of grads around 1900. The archivist did look in the AMA doctor listing (around 1900) & found him in there... it said that he graduated from med school in 1880, when the school was called "MO Medical College" (which later became the WA U med school!) I have a 1902 diploma from further training he took at a "policlinic" in Chicago, (which the archivist explained was a post-doctoral training in "european-style" medicine). The AMA listing said that he was licensed (in CO, at least) in 1903. Anyway, that led the guy there to look him up in a card file they have of turn of the century alumni... he FOUND him... there was an index card that confirmed when he went to school and also had a note (addendum) typed on the card (which he said is VERY unusual) that said that "Dr. Henry Clay Beall, a veteran confederate soldier, practiced for 13 years in Cortez, CO and died on Nov 7, 1913 at his daughter's home in Dewitt MO, from pneumonia." CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT???? :) I didn't have a death date (just the year) and I didn't even know which side he'd fought in the civil war! Now I have confirmation of all that & the med school stuff... The archivist is going to snail mail me a photocopy of the card & hopefully of the AMA listing, too... I am SO PUMPED... wow!!! :) Sorry to ramble on, but I'm so excited I had to share with you! Anyone who would like a copy of his info (once I get it) let me know & I'll be glad to snail mail a photocopy or email a .jpg of the card and policlinic diploma. Jen