Hi All, It was suggested to me by Pat,,,a subscriber to your site, that some of you might be interested in my Volunteer services. I would like to welcome those of you new to this site and tell you there are some really great folks who are willing to help just for the asking. I, myself do Volunteer research at Andersonville Civil War Prison in Andersonville Georgia. There are Any research I do is absolutely at NO cost and I am willing to do what I can. There are more that 462 prisoners on record from the state of New Jersey and more than 180 who died here, I thought I would send my offer. Here are my sources of research. There are 2 online databases to do lookups.....One by name...one by Company and Regiment. I also have a copy of the Dorence Atwater Death list which has the names and grave numbers of some 13000 graves with only 460 marked as " UNKNOWN " This along with a CD I have which contains 34,000 names of the 45,000 who were imprisoned there which helps me find prisoner records because of misspellings of the names or alternate names. I visit the prison site every couple of weeks and have access to the onsite databases as well as the physical files. I would like to let you know of another service I offer which is to take photos of graves for a small fee. If there is anything I can do in helping your research at Andersonville, please just ask. Kevin Frye Local Andersonville Historian / National Park Service Volunteer Hammer the Americans hard enough and you forge the best weapon in the world. --- Captain Simeon Ecuyer ...in a letter written to Colonel Bouquet during the siege of Fort Pitt Please visit my website dedicated to those Americans who were imprisoned and died in captivity while in the service to our country http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/Andersonvilleprison/index.html AOL USERS go to http://hometown.aol.com/andersonvillecw/

Could anyone help tell me what these societies are: Pioneer Ladies of Elizabeth Fidel Singing Society German Hungarian Sick and Death Benefit Society Star from Elizabeth Lodge 100, Order of Shepherds of Bethlehem Elizabeth Patriotic Organization My great grandmother was a member of these and it lists in her obit that they all came and performed rites at her funeral. But no one is around anymore to tell me what or who they were. Marlene Brown Ford marlene@enter.net

Marlene, it would help if you mentioned the year of your grandmother's death. > Could anyone help tell me what these societies are: > > Pioneer Ladies of Elizabeth > Fidel Singing Society > German Hungarian Sick and Death Benefit Society > Star from Elizabeth Lodge 100, > Order of Shepherds of Bethlehem > Elizabeth Patriotic Organization > > My great grandmother was a member of these and it lists in her obit that > they all came and performed rites at her funeral. But no one is around > anymore to tell me what or who they were. > > > Marlene Brown Ford > marlene@enter.net >