This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: ChekWriter Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.mills/5636.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Need to know what state or country he lived as birth, etc. Possibly a visit to your city, county, college, library might have several copies of how-to books, of just where and how to begin looking further for ancestors, doing a family genealogy, family tree. After you exhaust your initial, self, brothers/sisters/father/mother, aunts uncles, grand parents each side, and then great grand parents, if known. There on back need more information, birth records, marriage license/certificates, etc. Land records, wills and estate packages. Church records, if known of which religious persuasion ones family may be/or were. did he come here from another country and enlisted to fight in the Civil War, what Side, Union or Confederacy? That is if you know this information. Have you checked at your local library for Civil War Rosters of Soliders listed in books/microfilms/microfiche, that show the names of those who fought in the war. Usually by state, however, where they enlisted. Census records also can be checked at the library. Otherwise, at your nearest LDS Family History Library Center, can be of assistance further for you. Pat cw Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.