> From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MFLR] Thatcher Hopkins help / look up > > If you know the unit he belongs to, you need to get > the NARA films for the soldiers of that unit. Strictly speaking, we're getting away from Mayflower genealogy, so let me just offer a quick clarification to Christie's comment above. If you're looking for an ancestor's Revolutionary War *pension* file, then you do not need to know what unit the soldier was in, only the file number from the index I mentioned in my previous email. If you have access to a NARA regional office, the process is pretty easy. As Christie also noted, the pension file is far more likely to have useful genealogical information than muster rolls and the like. Ruy Cardoso ____________________________________________________________________________________ Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index