Dear List, This gentleman will do free look-ups at Andersonville Civil War Prison. You may contact Kevin PRIVATELY at his e-mail address below. Thank you. Jackie >From: "Kevin Frye" <Frye@gnat.net> > >Hello veterans and newbies of the rootsweb. > >There are some really great folks who are willing to help just for the >asking. I, myself do Volunteer research at Andersonville Civil War Prison >in Andersonville Georgia. Any research I do is absolutely at NO cost and >I am willing to do what I can. There are more than 32000 prisoners on >record from the Union, and quite a few who were held prisoner here as >Union regiments from Confederate states. There are also nearly 13000 >marked graves of those who died here. > >I thought I would send my offer as these would lead to a great many >descendants who might be looking for them.. I feel the need to say I am >not in anyway trying to focus on the horrors of Andersonville compared to >any POW camp in the north ..( i.e.Elmira ) or any others and do not wish >to stir up arguments on this site. My focus is dedicated to ALL of those >held prisoner during this war , on both sides as well as all Americans who >gave their freedoms for those that we enjoy today.. I just happen to be >near Andersonville so this is where I do my work > >Here are my sources of research. >There are 2 online databases to do lookups.....One by name...one by >Company and Regiment. I also have a copy of the Dorence Atwater Death list >which has the names and grave numbers of 12960 graves with only 460 marked >as " UNKNOWN " This along with a CD I have which contains 34,000 names of >the 45,000 who were imprisoned there which helps me find prisoner records >because of misspellings of the names or alternate names. I also have the >continued update database which is dated July 19 2002 . I visit the prison >site every couple of weeks and have access to the onsite databases as >well as the physical files. I would like to let you know of another >service I offer which is to take photos of graves for a small fee. Please >do not consider this spam as my research offer is FREE for the asking . > >If there is anything I can do in helping your research at Andersonville, >please just ask. >Please visit my website dedicated to those Americans who were imprisoned >and died in captivity while in the service to our country >Kevin Frye >Local Andersonville Historian / National Park Service Volunteer > ><http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/Andersonvilleprison/index.html>http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/Andersonvilleprison/index.html > >AOL USERS go to ><http://hometown.aol.com/andersonvillecw/>http://hometown.aol.com/andersonvillecw/