Hi all, I have included three surnames with the hopes that anyone with these names in Florida will get in touch. One interesting is David Sloan Lanier! Note also Lakeland is in Polk Co. The whole Hillsborough Co. area changed and became 6 or 7 counties. Some of the older listings will say Hillsborough Co. and will include Lake, Sumter and others in the exact same area as the county lines moved not the people. The web address is included at the bottom. They have address for the docs at 7.50 each OR included free you can download with Acrobat the PDF files of the original docs on line. I downloaded Wealthy Ann Sloan widow of William Futch and now have enlistment dates, her age and she never remarried at 51. Date of his date too. They seem to come alive when you find something! This was a thrill and I just wanted to share it. Liz Armstrong Braswell A07995, LANIER, L.H., lst Bttn Spc Cav, Hillsborough Co, 1907, 12 pgs A06431, LANIER, David Sloan, 8th Regt Inf, DeSoto Co, 1906, 17 pgs A01600, SLOAN, Elbert, 7th Regt Inf, Eleanor (Raulerson), Polk Co, 1903, 16 pgs A01408, CRUM, David, 7th Regt Inf, Elizabeth (Sloan), Hillsborough Co, 1907, 23 pgs A01234, SLOAN, Owen, lst Bttn Spc Cav, Jane (Platt), Lake Co, 1908, 16 pgs A00195, FUTCH, William, lst Regt Cav, Wealthy (Sloan), Polk Co, 1903, 10 pgs A05142, SLOAN, Orville, 7th Regt Inf, Polk Co, 1905, 15 pgs A12304, MERRITT, F. Lucius, lst Regt Cav, Lake Co, 1905, 17 pgs A12709, MERRITT, William, 9th Regt Inf, Lake Co, 1902, 04 pgs http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/barm/PensionFilesPrintableList.html Welcome, come by and say "Howdy" at: http://www.videoranch.net Visit Chicksands: http://www.videoranch.net/chicksands.htm Come and shop in our online General Store: http://www.videoranch.net/giftshop.htm