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 Tim Bryant <tpbryant9@yahoo.com> wrote: Cindy, You're quite welcome. You can get the muster roll for free by making a request at http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/datcivil.html#photocopies. All you need is the database info I included in my earlier response. I'm happy I got the right guy. I have a friend at work who did get the pension file for one of his ancestors, and I believe it was worth his while. Best wishes, Tim -----Original Message----- From: Cynthia Mac Suibhne [mailto:barkupthetree@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 10:17 AM To: ILLASALL-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [ILLASALLE] ROBINSON Delos and the 1890 Special Civil War Pensioners Thanks Tim, that's my Delos but I wasn't sure how much of the 1890 census survived. Here in Ohio I think all the 1890 Civil War Pension for Widows and Pensioners is avalible. I did see he was in the Ill. 129th infantry but I didn't know whether it was worth sending $37.00 to NARA for his pension file if it didn't exist. I do have a Civil War vet in the family who didn't file for pension. Otherwise I could just send $17.00 for the muster roll and any other info Delos file contained. Thanks again, Cindy ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com