This technique may be useful. --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Crowcope@aol.com To: ROWANROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 19:55:02 EST Subject: [RowanRoots] Civil War CD -clues Message-ID: <80.48e3dbe.2772aee6@aol.com> Hi Lists, I thought I would share this with several lists and on my method of finding your Ancestors and related family memebers in the same Civil War units. Review - you need the CD # 3 from a 15 CD package prduced by SerraHome called " Generations Family Tree- Grande Suite 6.0 online address is www.sierrahome.com ( you may be able to get the CD in another kit of theirs by going to this web site) I found this box set at my local store called Price Club here in CA and bought it on sale for $25.00 about a year ago. The listing for CD 3 is that it has 5 million men who fought in the Civil War and also has- National Archives for Rev War, War of 1812, Civil War, WWI and WWII. I have only checked out the CW listings so far and found my 2 grt-grd-fathers listed. I found John Miles Cope and his brother James McCoy Cope listed 16th Tex Cav Co ( F ) . I happen to have several pages of the 1860 Collin CO TX census with these men on it and so I went to work next looking for any male listed from about 14 on in 1860 on that census and found 7 more neighbors in the 16th TX Cav CO ( F ) on that CD. This means you need the complete 1860 census in any state listing your Ancestor on it and then go into the CD and type that complete name in the look for column and see if their neighbors show up with your Ancestor in the same unit ( some of them are in-laws and brothers and maybe a father ) The CD does not list the members by unit so it is a name by name search. Example if you type in the surname of Jones you will get several hundred men named Jones but if you type the complete name it will narrow it down. Plese I can't do any look-ups for you but I can lead you to ways in finding more of your Ancestors and who they fought with in the CW. David ( trying to help us all ) Cope PS- if there is another way of finding these men in the same unit then let me know and I will pass it on. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.