Hi everyone ... For those of you who inquired about the above book, I have finally gotten your information together and will be sending it shortly. I have given some thought to the best way of posting it (since there were so many request) and I think the easiest way is a mass posting to all lists. That way everyone can see who everyone else is researching (not to mention that it�s a lot easier for me than seeing 50 individual e-mails). Since it is a fairly large list, I will probably break it up into 2 separate postings. There were a few duplicate requests (from different list members), so in hopes of helping make the connection with a long-lost cousin, I will e-mail you privately if you submitted a request for an individual that someone else is also researching. One of the sections that the book provides with each individual is a list of resources where the information came from. I have listed the abbreviations below so you know what they mean and what resources were used in compiling the book. Also, and probably most importantly, I have received several e-mails cautioning about the validity of the information in this book. So I want to remind everyone that we should use this information as a tool and/or a starting point � we should not rely totally on the information being 100 percent accurate. Here are the source abbreviations listed in the book�s bibliography that you will see in the �source section�. And I will be sending the soldiers� information shortly. Steve ________________________________________ CR � Census Records; census records for IL located at the State Archives, Springfield: Territorial census for 1810; State census for 1820, 1825, 1835, 1840, 1845, 1855 and 1865. Federal census 1818, 1820 (decennial) though 1880. The 1840 Pension census is listed under �Pension�. DAR � Daughters of the American Revolution; records of the Illinois DAR State Historian, listing marked graves of the Revolutionary Soldiers buried in IL, and other markers placed by DAR Chapters; data from DAR application papers and from members. Historian General, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, �Marked Graves of the Revolutionary Soldiers and Patriots� published in the DAR Magazine beginning October 1969. HR � Honor Roll; published 1956 by the IL Veterans Commission, Springfield. There is a separate book for each of the 102 counties in IL, listing the place of burial of veterans of all wars to 1955. Data for the Honor Roll books was obtained from county historians, obituaries, family records, and applications for government headstones. HS � Journal of the IL State Historical Society; volume 19, April 1926 thru Jan 1927 NSDAR � National Society Daughters of American Revolution; annual report to the Smithsonian Institution, printed as a Senate Document, beginning 1896, lists located graves of the Revolutionary Soldiers PENSION: S (survivor); W (widow); R (rejected) � Records are in the National Archives, National Archives and Records Service, General Service Administration, Washington, DC 20408. If a veteran and his widow both applied for a pension, all papers pertaining to both claims are in the same envelope, or are microfilmed together. When a veteran�s claim was admitted and his widow�s claim was rejected, an R precedes the file number, her application being the last adjudicated. Pension application numbers were verified with �Index of Revolutionary War Pension Applications� by Max Ellsworth Hoyt and Frank Johnson Metcalf, published by the National Genealogical Society, Washington DC in 1966. Other sources were: abstracted pension records compiled and edited by Mrs. Harold I. Meyer for �Roster of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Widows who Lived in Illinois Counties� 1962; �Census of Pensioners,� State of IL, pages 186-188; �Rejected or Suspended Applications for Revolutionary War Pensions,� reprinted by the Genealogical Publishing Company 1969, pages 421-431. PI � DAR Patriot Index; published by National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, 1966. W � Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Illinois; by Harriet J. Walker, published 1917. Mrs. Walker�s research included checking pension applications, county histories, family records, interviews, in addition to the use of many standard genealogical reference works. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com