I was looking for George Mattila, but wasn't having any luck. I know he was in WWI. Birth date is 12/8/1899. I think part of the problem is that what I'm seeing is where they were registered, not their place of residence. How did you check for Minnesota when it doesn't pull up - by birthplace? Perhaps MN did not have a place to register. Only one Mattila pulls up born in MN whether you do it by exact spelling or Soundex. The other spellings are way off. Thanks, Roberta -----Original Message----- From: Margit [mailto:margit@eot.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 7:49 PM To: NOR-VEST-AGDER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [VAgder] Free Military database WWI Hi Roberta, From what I gathered on other lists, there are still several states missing. I would suspect they are working on adding more. I just checked and I find 3,481 hits for Minnesota, living in Minnesota. What name and birthdate are you looking for? Spelling is bad in all databases I find most of the time. Margit On Jul 20, 2005, at 5:11 PM, Roberta Stepan wrote: > Any idea why Minnesota is not included in the database? > Roberta > > -----Original Message----- > From: Margit [mailto:margit@eot.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 12:18 PM > To: NOR-VEST-AGDER-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [VAgder] Free Military database WWI > ==== NOR-VEST-AGDER Mailing List ==== Make sure you check out the other lists available here for Norway: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/NOR/ ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

Hi Roberta, No he is not there. I checked all variables. I would suggest trying the lookups in St. Louis County Minnesota in the book that all counties put out after WWI. I do lookups here for Polk County and Norman County of Minnesota in my books. Margit On Jul 20, 2005, at 10:25 PM, Roberta Stepan wrote: > I was looking for George Mattila, but wasn't having any luck. I know > he was in WWI. > Birth date is 12/8/1899. I think part of the problem is that what I'm > seeing is > where they were registered, not their place of residence. How did you > check for > Minnesota when it doesn't pull up - by birthplace? Perhaps MN did not > have a place > to register. Only one Mattila pulls up born in MN whether you do it > by exact > spelling or Soundex. The other spellings are way off. > > Thanks, > Roberta >