Hi listers. Just real quick on these Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) lookups. This is not based on where the person was living when they signed up for the war as it is where they ended up living. For instance, my William Sheehy (Shehea, Shehee, McSheehy) was living in Holyoke, Mass. when he signed up for a unit in N.Y, much to my surprise. And he lived in Holyoke for almost ten years after he left the military. Yet I found him on the GAR list in Whitinsville, Mass. Whitinsville is a small section in the town of Northbridge that he and all of his other brothers and their families moved to (and are buried in). He also was listed in the GAR as William McSheey. And when I went to find him in his unit on the Soldiers and Sailors site, I found him listed as William Shehea. So..................I can search this stuff by name or by town. If you do not know the name of the town, any different spelling that you can give me would help. You will have to do the Soldiers and Sailors site yourselves. Sometimes this GAR list gives different info on different people, i.e., sometimes a birth date, sometimes a death date, sometimes a birth place or a death place, etc. The town that is listed next to the GAR Post # is the town that GAR Post was in. Sometimes that is where the person lives and sometimes it isn't. But it almost always gives the regiment and the unit. There are complete records for these people, as I have said before, but they will not be available until sometime in 2009 because they have been put in storage while the library in Cambridge, Mass. is being renovated. Just saying this so that I will not have to repeat myself over and over. We wouldn't want that, would we? And..........if you have any other questions pertaining to how this works, put those questions to the list so that I only have to answer it once and everyone can get it. Thanks. Monica ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.