Hello, There is a lovely website which has been done by the National Park Service. The website used to always be here: http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.htm However, not long ago someone told me that the website address was changed to: http://www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/ Try the last one first. This website covers both Union and Confederate. You can search by full name, or just the surname. This website is wonderful, you can easily spend the day looking for all your Civil War time frame ancestors and relatives. The second way to search, would be to visit the website of the county you knew they lived in, and search to see if the have listed the name of the Troop or Regiment they had located there. Then looking on www.google.com to find a roster listing of those soldiers names. Many men did not enlist in their own home area, but for several reasons they went away to enlist. Some men from the South went away to enlist in Union Army, and the opposite happened as well. 1890 there was a Civil War Veterans widow's census. I think I have that correctly. This census survived as I recall. If your ancestor was dead by then, but had left a living widow, her name could be on the census, and the regiment might be noted there? Also, you could google.com search for the ancestors name, and the words Civil War Roster, in case his name would be listed. For example: "John Smith" Civil War Roster, if you knew the STATE you could add that to be more specific in the search. Also, don't forget about the PUBLIC Library, which probably has a book or many which have lists of the soldiers for a particular county, or state, or area, or regiment. This would be another was to check. Best regards, Lilly Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: <Alikat42@aol.com> To: <ohlorain@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 6:11 AM Subject: Re: [OHLORAIN] Soldier Index Card >I have to ask a really dumb question....how do you find out if a family > member was in the Civil War? Is there a list you can check of names??? > > Thank you > > Alice > > > > ************************************** See what's free at > http://www.aol.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OHLORAIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

That is a great site. I found 3 of my family members there. None of them directly linked to me, but they were brothers or cousins to my gg grandfather. Two of them (cousins) served in the same Regiment, so it looks like they may have gone in together to sign up. I will have to explore that site more and check other lines in my family. Sande Lilly Martin <malik@scs-net.org> wrote: Hello, There is a lovely website which has been done by the National Park Service. However, not long ago someone told me that the website address was changed to: http://www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/ Please support me in my walk to find a cure for Cystic Fibrosis http://www.cff.org/Great_Strides/AlecsandraBihlmaier "Some family trees have beautiful leaves, but some just have a bunch of nuts. Remember it is the nuts that make the tree worth shaking." ~ Unknown ~ --------------------------------- TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV.