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???? _____________________________________________ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html