I'd take Jane up on that on Tim. If you go through her she can tell you how many pages your vets pension file is but NARA won't. It's $17.00 just for the basics when it comes to Pension files and $37.00 complete...well one doesn't know what it contains so maybe something will be left out by only ordering the $17.00 one you know, and why spend $17.00 when for $20.00 more you get the complete file...unless of course the file is 5 pages whether it's $17 or $37. I'm not complaining since I can't get to the archives and I have ordered Rev War Pension files on film through the FHC and spent a small fortune on .25 cent copies. Unfortunatley the Civil War Pension files aren't on film through FHC. I did locate the Ill. 1883 list of Civil War Pensioners for LaSalle and Delos hasn't filed maybe he did later on. Cindy Tim Bryant <tpbryant9@yahoo.com> wrote: Cindy, I haven't done anything with the national archives myself. I wonder whether there's some way to see what the holdings consist of before you shell out the dough--like a notation of how many pages are available. Thanks for sharing your experience. The more discussion of the subject on the list, the more it will benefit people with like interests. Best wishes, Tim -----Original Message----- From: Cynthia Mac Suibhne [mailto:barkupthetree@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 2:16 PM To: ILLASALL-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [ILLASALLE] ROBINSON Delos and the 1890 Special Civil War Pensioners Thanks again Tim, whether to pay $37.00 for the complete pension file is the tricky part. I sent for one and it was only five pages not much for $37.00. My vet served only a few months in one regiment before he must have been sent or joined another regiment. His records for some reason didn't follow him and I haven't found the other troop he was with. But I have a friend I do genealogy with and she has several files none under 50 pages long. I was so jealous the day she came to me with a new binder and 100 poly sheets for one file. That's worth $37.00 because it was full of information. Her vet married two women during the war and it wasn't until he died and both were widowed that they applied for their loving husband's pension only to find out there was another woman. Another one of hers was in Anderson Prison and wounded and the file came with drawings of the location of his wounds. That would be an extreme but something more lengthy then 5 pages would be nice, for pensio! n a vet has to prove his place of birth, maybe testimony of another family member as to where, place of marriage, children ect. anyway Thanks for the muster roll site I'm going to request that. Cindy ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Well, the thing is, I only had an interest in one fellow who is my girlfriend's g-grandfather, so getting the muster rolls for him was all I needed. This guy was later written up extensively in the History of Mercer County and it gave a lot of great details of his Civil War experience. Jane, if you want to look something up for Cindy, go ahead and I'll do what I can to resolve your LaSalle County queries. Best wishes, Tim -----Original Message----- From: Cynthia Mac Suibhne [mailto:barkupthetree@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 4:59 PM To: ILLASALL-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [ILLASALLE] ROBINSON Delos and the 1890 Special Civil War Pensioners I'd take Jane up on that on Tim. If you go through her she can tell you how many pages your vets pension file is but NARA won't. It's $17.00 just for the basics when it comes to Pension files and $37.00 complete...well one doesn't know what it contains so maybe something will be left out by only ordering the $17.00 one you know, and why spend $17.00 when for $20.00 more you get the complete file...unless of course the file is 5 pages whether it's $17 or $37. I'm not complaining since I can't get to the archives and I have ordered Rev War Pension files on film through the FHC and spent a small fortune on .25 cent copies. Unfortunatley the Civil War Pension files aren't on film through FHC. I did locate the Ill. 1883 list of Civil War Pensioners for LaSalle and Delos hasn't filed maybe he did later on. Cindy