Hi, to Bill and all...... As Bill has so wisely stated, this does need to be checked out. And I will do that tomorrow (Monday.) In that original email query it was signed by the name of the Police Lt......and he gave me his contact tele number at the Central Division LAPD and his cell number and his home email and work email addresses. I do believe this is very ligit. But, of course, I will proceed with caution. I am very excited. I know if it was my family, I would definitely want to be FOUND for this award/honor to be bestowed on my UNCLE. I will keep everyone abreast of the progress on this. Contact me off-list, if you have any details to share on the living. We do not want to go over the edge here on what we share on this open list. Thanks....the Iowa-L are a great bunch of people. Linda Ziemann Iowa GenWeb County Coordinator, Plymouth, Monona, Sioux counties http://www.iagenweb.org Iowa Old Press IAGenWeb Special Project Co-coordinator http://www.iowaoldpress.com/index.html http://www.mycmsite.com/sites/lindaziemann/my-business-more -----Original Message----- From: Bill Rathbun [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 9:41 AM To: Linda Ziemann Subject: Re: [IOWA] Kesterson Surname--Medal of Valor award Linda: Have you called the LA Police department on you own and confirmed this query? Why would they just now be giving an award for something that happened in 1946? Whoever it is may be trying to find these people for other reasons. I am always leery of these kinds of requests. Police Departments would be far more apt to call you on the phone or contact you through the local police department. Recently I had a contact from a guy on another matter that sounded funny to me and I went to the local police to have the guy checked out before I went ahead. Turned out he was a small time drug dealer. Just be careful looking up information on living people. That is at the very edge of what we are doing.. Bill Rathbun ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Ziemann" <[email protected]> To: "IOWA" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 9:05 AM Subject: [IOWA] Kesterson Surname--Medal of Valor award > Hi, List...I am hoping to find descendants of this family. See the > descending order below. They started out in Mills, Co., Iowa and migrated > to Monona Co. Iowa..and then Colorado...and some of them eventually > reached > California. > >