I have done a LOT for Louisa Co genealogy, even though my website is primarily for Muscatine Co IA. I have done countless lookups for people (I am sure the man with the JAMES surname recalls this) on this list and Norma's Louisa Co website links to a substantial number of cemeteries in adjacent Muscatine Co which I have researched, transcribed and placed on line free for YOUR use. Apparently someone has complained to the list owner because I asked for help with my Civil War project, wanting to know what I was doing with Louisa Co soldiers (as if you guys OWNED these men) I am unsubbing and apologize in advance to Norma for this post but I am ANGRY ANGRY ANGRY. Excuse me for changing email addresses and having a couple messages show up as "Not a Subscriber" when in fact I am. My dad lived in Fredonia, my great grandparents in Letts, my great great grandparents in Letts...I still have lots of Louisa Co relatives and an interest in the area. I have as much right to post questions on this list as anyone else and I resent the living heck out of the fact that someone on here thinks they own the rights to information about civil war soldiers from the area AND that they were too chicken to just email me and ask for the scope of my project. I clearly posted what my project was about on 30 Mar 2000 and if the person who complained to Norma (instead of being big enough to write to me directly) had checked the list archive the original message is right there. For that person or anyone else who suddenly had a problem with me, here is the original message, exactly as posted on 30 Mar: > Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 14:01:58 -0500 > From: Susie Martin-Rott > To: IALOUISA-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <38E3A4A6.6E5E38DE@netzero.net> > Subject: Re: Civil War Burial Sites > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > I've been working on a project for about 2 years now of recording the > burial sites of Civil War soldiers from Iowa and could use some help > with Louisa County guys. > > This database includes soldiers who died and are buried in IA regardless > > of what state or side they served, as well as men from Iowa who served > in > or are buried in other states (example-there were a bunch of West > Liberty guys > who joined the MO Cavalry and are buried in MO-they were FROM Iowa > though) > > I have picked through the Roll of Honor and hundreds of cemetery books > and > transcriptions looking for these guys (Iowa alone had over 75,000 men > serve) and have actually located only about 5 thousand so far (including > those > who served other states and are buried in IA, like my ggg grandfather > Daniel Grimm who served in OH and is buried at Parr). Part of the > problem is that many of them did not get "government" stones and there > is nothing on their marker to indicate > their service. > > One of the purposes of the project is that those who have no stones or > stones which are illegible are entitled to receive a new marker from the > Veterans > Administration..but we have to know where they are BURIED first!! > > If you have such a soldier in your family tree, serving from or buried > in IA and would like to have them included in the database, the info > needed is: > NAME > RANK > UNIT > BIRTHDATE and PLACE > DEATH DATE and PLACE > CEMETERY and LOCATION > misc: if you know pension number, wife's name, discharge info etc > > If you don't know everything, you can submit what you DO know and I'll > eventually research the person and try to fill in the blanks. > > I will tell you up front that I do earn a nominal sum (less than $300 > for 3,000 men) > in doing this by allowing ancestry.com to have the electronic rights to > my database. This helps me pay for copies from the roll of honor, > pension and other books and documents. > > Since each group of 3,000 takes hundreds of hours to research, comparing > > names to rosters, etc, I am NOT getting rich off this thing. I however > retain > any hard copy publishing rights, therefore I can GIVE the darn list away > to anyone I want, including the group who is working on the replacement > markers, libraries, etc. > > I have a guy right now making me NUTS who is buried in Louisa Co. > MAPES (no first name given) NY 44 Inf G Fredonia Fredonia, Louisa, IA > > G.A.R. Does anyone know what Mr. Mape's 1st name was???? > > With that, I will be unsubbing from the list so anyone who needs help from me is just outta luck or will have to email me directly or visit my website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~iamusca2/index.html I want this complainer to know that I came VERY VERY close to asking the Louisa Co site to remove all the cemetery links that go from that site to mine because of your attitude, but I have not done so because there are a lot of good people on this list who don't deserve to be deprived of their ancestral information simply because you have a personal problem. I would also like to thank those of you who voluntarily sent me your CW soldier information for inclusion in the project. Norma, I again apologise for sending this to the list, but the complainer was too chicken to mail me so this is the only way I can get a message to them.