Thanks Jim, Appreciate the pat on the head. Always makes you feel nice. You wrote: I would suggest that it might be helpful to have your fields expanded > to somehow stack the Divisions, Regiments, and Companies. [if any > higher designations were static through the war, they should be added > to this 'stacking'] Jim did a nice job of listing the units for you. I would suggest someone find out what the organization was in 1812. Also, was it different in militia and in different states than in federal troops. From my own experience, I would say that the structure has changed so often you can't depend on anything we know today applying in the same manner it was used back then. As to difficulty finding your unit, don't give up yet. Even though the compiled list from the film is completed, it is not a complete listing of units from NY. I know this for a fact, because I have a couple pages from the next series of records ( and remember, I am still on the first few pages of the first of five rolls of film), and on one of those pages I find a document listing this unit, which is not included in the index: Capt. Daniel Blish's Co of Militia detached from the 2 Battalion 9 Regt New York is on the Company Muster Roll of 3 Battalion, Major John Robert's, Aug to Nov 1813. Going back to my document 1 you find Robert's Battn. Then you find an idex card to a muster roll of Field and Staff officers of Robert's Battalion which states that it was a unit under General Hopkin's Brigade. Hopkin's Bde is listed in doc 5. So, there will be more to add later, but it will be slow going. The easy part was the index which I have finished. The hard part is how I am going to do this. Hard copies of everything would run several hundred dollars and I cannot afford that. Don't expect any one else can either. So, does anyone know if you can scan microfilm with an ordinary scanner? My imaging program will convert negative to positive and back. A lot of trouble, but much cheaper. Come on you technogeeks, tell me how to do this. But, keep it simple, I am kinda like those goats that go stiff and fall over when they hear a loud noise. Only I suffer those symptoms when I get a too technical explanation. As to sorting by unit structure, I will leave that to computer gurus. It might be most helpful, because I am seeing many "detached" units attached to other units as in the case of Blish above. Let's see what develops and maybe then someone can figure out just how to set up the fields and come up with some sort of a design for the documents so they can be sorted. It's a bit much for this poor old country girl to "figur" out. By the way, for those of you who find the document structure rather strange, I think I managed to set it up so the gurus can import it into a data base with no, or hopefully little, editing. More later, but at my speed it may take a couple years to get thru those 5 rolls of film. Impatient? Rent em and read em. Marianne