Hi folks! I'm forwarding a link that was posted (forwarded from someone else) to the KyGenWeb coordinators list today. It looks very helpful. Enjoy, Laura > -----Original Message----- > > FYI > > Volunteers for the National Park Service's Civil War Soldiers and > Sailors System Web site (CWSS; http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss) have > completed the Name Index Project to post 6.3 million soldier records > from 44 US states and territories. After the final million > names-belonging to soldiers from Virginia and Pennsylvania-were added > last month, a ceremony at Ford's Theatre marked the milestone. > Next up for indexing are naval personnel records, but that'll take > awhile, according to the CWSS site: "Given that the records sources > for the Navy are not as well organized as the Army records, nor are > they microfilmed, the target date for this is still to be determined." > About 18,000 African-American sailors are already cataloged on CWSS, > thanks to Department of Defense funding and work by Howard University. > The soldier data came from the General Index Cards in the National > Archives and Records Administration's Compiled Military Service > Records. CWSS also has Civil War information such as regimental > histories and links to descriptions of nearly 400 significant battles. >