This is from the help file in the software, I hope it allowed to post it here: Civil War Muster Rolls or certificates were produced roughly between 1861 and 1865 in order to keep track of a soldier, his rank, unit, equipment, and pension benefits. The original rolls consist of the actual cards soldiers completed and filed with their headquarters. The Civil War Muster Rolls were first compiled on microfilm by the National Archives to assist researchers in their efforts to investigate those who served in the civil war. The database presented in Generations Research Center was created from this same collection of microfilm. It is the largest known electronic collection of those who served in the war and we are proud to play a part in making it readily accessible for the first time to so many people. Users should understand, however, that this is not a complete database of all those who served in the civil war. Most of the records here deal with enlisted men and do not cover high ranking officers (see the Union Generals or Confederate Generals databases in the Historic Records for information on these and other high ranking officers.) Judi Boniface Herkimer, NY boniface@dreamscape.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Elbrecht <elbrecht@mindspring.com> To: <GEN-NYS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 3:48 PM Subject: Re: Civil War Muster Rolls > "Judi Boniface" <boniface@dreamscape.com> wrote: > > >There is a CD that came with Sierra's Generations Grande Suite genealogy > >program that is the Civil War Muster Rolls. It tells you what unit the > >person served with and whether he was Union or Confederate. > > Hi Judy, > If you've seen it, does it say if these are 'muster in', 'muster out', > or 'compiled' rolls? Or how complete it claims to be? > > And for those who think they had an ancestor in the civil war who > either doesn't appear on a unit's 'muster roll', remember that they > still might have served. Of the 3 CW soldiers who service I've > looked at in detail, only one appears on a muster 'in' roll , and > none are on the muster out rolls. [one died, one was dropped from > the rolls, and one had his term expire before the Reg. was mustered > out]. > > jim > > > ==== GEN-NYS Mailing List ==== > Have you seen the USGenWeb New York Page? > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygenweb/ >