I had an unplanned trip to the National Archive yesterday...so just did some looking...I checked some of the War of 1812 records there...they are just like the Rev War Records i.e. the index...they don't have the files here just the index...so I asked the lady if I wanted to get copies of pension records for the War of 1812 how did I go about that... Well, she tells me that each of those index cards has a military file in Washington DC national archive...that goes for the Revolutionary index as well...this is not the same as the pension files from what I gather....and as you recall the na is changing their pricing policy so now when you send for these files, they send the entire file... Soooo, I'm going to order at least one War of 1812 file, just to see what is there and how it works....so more later. Below is just some notes I took from the W1812 index...I'm going to make copies of the entire index for the Archive but wanted you to see what was there... War of 1812 - index cards at the National Archive: Coates, Barton 2 Reg't (Cheatham's) W. Tennessee Mil War of 1812 Private Coates, William Davis' Battalion, West TN Mil War of 1812 Sergeant Coates, Wilson Capt Garlington's Co. NC Mil W of 1812 Private Coats, Austin 13 Reg't (Dudley's) Ky Mil W or 1812 Private Coats, Austin - MS Coats, Austin 10 Reg (Barbour's) Mounted KY Vols W of 1812 Private Coats, Benjamin 4 Reg't (Bayle's) East TN Mil W of 1812 Private Coats, Charles - KY Coats, Christopher Allison's Reg't East TN Mil W of 1812 Private Coats, David 2 Reg't Mounted Gunmen (Brown's) East TN Vols Private Coats, James 2 Reg't Mounted Gunmen (Brown's) East TN Vols Coats, James - 3 Reg't (Roulston's) West TN Mil - Corporal Coats, John 1 Reg't (Harris) Georgia Mil Coats, Leasley - E. TN Vol - private Coats, Leasley - GA >From the list of Prisoners of War of 1812 in Canada the following: Elijah Coates The thing about these records, they can also give you an overview of who was where, when, and if there was more than one person by that name i.e. James etc... ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com