Has anyone else had a problem with a file being lost or misfiled? I ordered two back in August, my great great uncle and my great grandfather. The uncle's file arrived last fall and confirmed and explained a few mysteries in my tree. There were also letters in there from his sisters (including my great grandmother). A few weeks later I got a letter saying my great grandfather's file was misplaced and they would contact me if/when they found it. I still have not heard from them. I imagine this file would be much larger as my great grandfather had a lot of children (some of whom were farmed out to relatives), he was in a veteran's home, and his widow lived a long time after he died. His last name was Smith and I'm assuming that's why it's misfiled (just too many Smiths). Margie ************** The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards. Go to AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565)

Does anyone know if any other states have death (or birth or marriage) certificates online? I've heard that IL is supposed to go online in June, but no one seems to know if it will be free. Margie ************** The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards. Go to AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565)

Hi Everybody, Thankyou so much for all the great sites. I just open them right out of my mail to see if I like them and then add them to my favorites. I am new at this so I don't know about the pension files. Where are you getting them from in Washington and are pensions the only files available this way? Is there a standard cost? I assume they are copies that you are buying from a government agency? Enlighten me. Thanks,Jeanne --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.

Thought of a couple of special files I found so perhaps you should order the whole file. 1. One file had the fact that the man had married 4 times and each wife only knew of one wife before and 3 of them tried to collect his pension. The poor 1st wife never knew he was alive and she remarried and had another family and probably never knew anything about him not coming back. 2. Another one had a long letter sent by a mother who needed the pension and in the letter she named all her children and all their birth dates. She also sent the last letter she had from her son before he was killed and he told her about the battle he had been in. She asked the government to send the letter back, but obviously they didn't. 3. I have found pictures, wedding certificates, death certificates - actual ones as no copies in those early days. I think that it might depend on who decided what was important and what was not. I had ordered one on one of my great grandfathers and had the smaller file sent. When I went to DC to pull the whole file, it really didn't give me any more information, but you never know. 4. I also found a situation where it looks like the man scammed a bunch of people in his home town and went out west and the wife applied for pension, but in the end she really knew he was alive and she lost her money. 5. Another one had tried to get his pension and it was funny as he claimed to be in one town and ill and the people in the town said he wasn't ever there. 6. Another person filing for pension said if he died he didn't want his wife to get a penny of it as she had left him for another man. I could go on with the stories, but would be boring. They are really interesting reading. Most are very sad as everyone came home with bowel problems even if they weren't wounded. It is the bickering that went on for some of them trying to scam the government that makes the interesting read as well as getting a really good picture of the war and how so many signed up for only 30 or 60 days so their family could have some money. I did look at a few that were denied. One happened to be someone from my home town and the county has him listed in the book as a Civil War Veteran, but when he applied he was denied as there was no record of him ever having served and he didn't appeal. Thus did he just make it up or did they lose the file. I would think that if he really did serve he would have fought it more. Also, did you all know that they had special attorneys to plead their case. It looks like they had to have an attorney to file - perhaps not always, but all the ones I looked at did. Later I found a relative in the census for 1900 and his occupation was pension application attorney. Enough of my rambling. Enjoy whatever you choose to do. Jerilyn **************The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards. Go to AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565)

Try LDS Church HQ for tech support...free and helpful: 1866 4061830 De -----Original Message----- From: ohmiami-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ohmiami-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Lempacre@aol.com Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 7:39 AM To: ohmiami@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OHMIAMI] ? about familysearch site I tried it through Netscape and it told me I had to download a flash player. I tried it through internet explorer and it was fine. I found several death certificates, but still can't locate my great grandmother who died in Piqua in 1912. I've tried various spellings of her first name with no luck. I guess I'll try some different spellings of Smith. Thanks for posting about this site. Margie ************** The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards. Go to AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565) tdn-net.com/genealogy ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHMIAMI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Here is the # for tech support from LDS Church HQ. They are most helpful, and should be able to solve the problem. 1-866 4061830. De -----Original Message----- From: ohmiami-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ohmiami-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sharon Specht Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 6:00 AM To: ohmiami@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OHMIAMI] ? about familysearch site Tried it again, and everything I click on gets me a THUNK. It must have something to do with security settings or something like that. Has anyone else tried this site? Nolan Hill <ghost2@fiber.net> wrote: Sharon... What an interesting experience!!! I am at a loss as to what happened. Try again, because the site is so worth it. It is loaded with death certificates 1908-1953. See if this works: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html. You use your email to get into the program (once you have registered) and there are some great databases as well as the above Ohio stuff. Good luck, and keep me posted. De Hill -----Original Message----- From: ohmiami-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ohmiami-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sharon Specht Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:36 PM To: ohmiami@rootsweb.com Subject: [OHMIAMI] ? about familysearch site I clicked on your link to the family search site, and tried to register, but all i got was a big klonk out of the computer. You know -the sound it makes that sounds like someone hitting you on the head and saying "you big dummy!" What am I doing wrong? --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. tdn-net.com/genealogy ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHMIAMI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Just wanted to give Sharon an enormous THANK YOU for mentioning the familysearch labs site. I use familysearch.org all the time and had NO IDEA this existed. I've already retrieved three death certificates and I have JUST started looking. What a phenomenal, free of charge service. Thanks again for the tip! It is greatly appreciated. Maybe we should all list our top three-five genealogical online resources. That way, we all might gain a site or two that we've never used nor heard of and gain a valuable resource site?! Any takers? Marianne McCalip

In regards to this LDS website, you might try clearing your CACHE file: Temporary Internet Files Temporary Internet files--what are they ? Each time you open a Web page, your browser creates a cache file (a temporary copy) of the page's text and graphics. When you open the page again, for example, when you click on the toolbar Back button, your browser checks the Web site server for changes to the page. If the page has changed, your browser retrieves a new version over the network. If the page hasn't changed, your browser uses the cache files from your RAM or hard drive to display the page. For example, Internet Explorer caches Web pages to both memory (RAM) and disk (hard drive) until the respective cache is full; Internet Explorer then rotates out pages based on age. Internet Explorer designed this system to help load Web pages quicker. However, if you've viewed lots of Web pages, you may have an overloaded hard disk cache, which Internet Explorer will have to check before it loads a new page. Unfortunately, over time, your browser's cache grows. A cache full of outdated information is worse than no cache at all. It causes problems with Java applets, causes you to see out of date text or images, and makes your browser sluggish starting and exiting. The solution is to clear out the cache. By default, the location of temporary Internet files (for Internet Explorer) is C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files ( For Win2000 and Windows XP) and c:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files ( for Win95, Win98 ,Windows ME) Here is a link which might help you achieve this: http://www.nu.edu/Academics/StudentServices/helpdesk2006/troubleshooting/cacheCleaning.html Good luck! Hope this helps! On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:17 AM, <Edythe98@aol.com> wrote: > > I've used the site for a couple of months now. As previously mentioned, > after I registered and was accepted, I could not access the site. It brought up > the site but with a blank page. I contacted LDS tech service and they told me > my AOL browser would not accept; thus, I have to minimize AOL and use my IE > browser. Perhaps your Yahoo server is the same problem. Can you minimize and > go through IE or another browser? > > If problems continue, I suggest you email LDS for assistance. They were very > helpful and replied quickly. > > In a message dated 2/15/2008 8:01:06 AM Eastern Standard Time, > mudd2sunflower@yahoo.com writes: > > Tried it again, and everything I click on gets me a THUNK. It must have > something to do with security settings or something like that. Has anyone else > tried this site? > > > > > > **************The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy > Awards. Go to AOL Music. > (http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565) > tdn-net.com/genealogy > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHMIAMI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Pamela WELLS nee ROBERSON Trinity, FL via Dayton, OH ROBERSON ~ WELLS Family Website: http://www.wellsp.tribalpages.com FamilyGeno@gmail.com

YES, get the whole pension record. I have many ancestors in the Civil War and have gotten six pension records. Some may be short, but one was 200 pages! I cannot begin to tell you how glad I am that I got the records. If nothing else, you can get more glimpses in their personal lives. The most poinent story is one who moved to New Orleans after the war and never contacted his family again. His family never knew what happened to him. Family lore said that he joined the Confederates. A letter in the pension papers was from his family asking the government if it knew his fate. To my knowledge, the government never wrote back. So the family never knew what happened to him. We also saw that his widow tried to claim his pension even though she had remarried. She only collected a small amount before she was found out. Also, you should read everything. Ruth Ann EvansColumbus OH"Old genealogists never die, they just lose their census."> To: ohmiami@rootsweb.com> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:24:03 -0500> From: cat2397@juno.com> Subject: Re: [OHMIAMI] Question for the list re: Civil War Pension files> > > Steve,> Yes! The entire pension file is worth it. From the affidavits various> people have given you may find much information about the soldier's> family, not only his spouse and children but his parents and siblings. In> one civil war pension file I found the name of an aunt to the widow, I> had been looking for this person for several years, she was listed as> being present at the birth of one of the soldier's children.. You have to> try to read a lot of hand written pages, but you can find many snippets> of information, which can lead to bigger finds. I think the whole pension> file is worth it. I always order the entire file. Why are you paying> $189.00? I know the entire file price has gone up to $75.00. Just> curious.> > -Cindy> tdn-net.com/genealogy> -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHMIAMI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Shed those extra pounds with MSN and The Biggest Loser! http://biggestloser.msn.com/

I tried it through Netscape and it told me I had to download a flash player. I tried it through internet explorer and it was fine. I found several death certificates, but still can't locate my great grandmother who died in Piqua in 1912. I've tried various spellings of her first name with no luck. I guess I'll try some different spellings of Smith. Thanks for posting about this site. Margie ************** The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards. Go to AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565)

Over the past several years I pulled close to 300 pension files trying to find some lost relatives and what I found was the following. 1. In a lot of the files was a file folder of up to about 20 pages of vital information that they would use to send to people asking for files and then the other papers were loose in the envelope that all are stored in. 2. I always looked through the whole file as I was there and it would have been crazy not to see what might be missing. In almost all cases what was missing was mostly medical records. Sometimes it might be old envelopes, etc, but I don't remember finding much. 3. The largest files I found which usually took up two of their large envelopes were just pages and pages of surgeons reports on the health of the applicant. Each time he applied for an increase in pension he had to have another surgeon's report. If he lived a long time after the initial approval of his pension the files grew quite large. 4. The other thing that might make a file huge was letters from people who knew him either telling about his health before the war or about his health after the war or both. Sometimes these were relatives and that was what I was hoping for, but so many times it was people they were in the service with or neighbors. Sometimes that was a clue, but only once for me - but you never know and if I get back there I will continue my quest. I am not sure you would find anything else. Like the other responder I feel that is a lot of money to maybe find something out. Guess it depends on how much money you have to spare. I believe there are people in the DC area who will go and pull a file for you and they might be cheaper. But again they don't know the people they are looking at and perhaps would miss a clue. I would offer to pull it for you, but my trips to DC have temporarily (I hope) stopped. My husband was going on business 4 times a year and I always went with him. I know how frustrating it is to wonder if something is missing when you have a big brick wall and I probably would be one who if the wall was absolutely driving me nuts I would probably pay for the whole thing, but be advised you may have a lot of reading about all your ancestors aches and pains - usually they were related to intestinal problems. Everyone seemed to have horrible piles - I can't remember how to spell the word we use today and not near a dictionary to look it up. Good luck. Jerilyn **************The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards. Go to AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565)

I've used the site for a couple of months now. As previously mentioned, after I registered and was accepted, I could not access the site. It brought up the site but with a blank page. I contacted LDS tech service and they told me my AOL browser would not accept; thus, I have to minimize AOL and use my IE browser. Perhaps your Yahoo server is the same problem. Can you minimize and go through IE or another browser? If problems continue, I suggest you email LDS for assistance. They were very helpful and replied quickly. In a message dated 2/15/2008 8:01:06 AM Eastern Standard Time, mudd2sunflower@yahoo.com writes: Tried it again, and everything I click on gets me a THUNK. It must have something to do with security settings or something like that. Has anyone else tried this site? **************The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards. Go to AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565)

Sharon, I was having trouble, too. Try just http://search.labs.familysearch.org . I am delighted with finding 3 death certificates I can use. Thank you , Nolan for letting us know about this. Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Specht" <mudd2sunflower@yahoo.com> To: <ohmiami@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 7:59 AM Subject: Re: [OHMIAMI] ? about familysearch site > Tried it again, and everything I click on gets me a THUNK. It must have > something to do with security settings or something like that. Has anyone > else tried this site? >

Steve, Yes! The entire pension file is worth it. From the affidavits various people have given you may find much information about the soldier's family, not only his spouse and children but his parents and siblings. In one civil war pension file I found the name of an aunt to the widow, I had been looking for this person for several years, she was listed as being present at the birth of one of the soldier's children.. You have to try to read a lot of hand written pages, but you can find many snippets of information, which can lead to bigger finds. I think the whole pension file is worth it. I always order the entire file. Why are you paying $189.00? I know the entire file price has gone up to $75.00. Just curious. -Cindy

>>>I already have the first 19 pages of my great great grandfather Silas Pearson's pension papers and hope that by going ahead and ordering it all ( 154 pages ) Steve, That's a tough one to answer. Not knowing what the logic was behind sending you only 19 of 154 pages, it's hard to predict what's in the rest of the file. And that is a pretty steep price to pay to get your hands on the rest of it. However, with a file that is that large, I'm curious as to whether the 19 pages you have are predominantly military records. If so, I think the chances increase that the remainder of the file may be of interest. I ordered complete files for all my Civil War ancestors (but never had to pay for one as large as you're talking about). My experience though on my "large" files - which were only in the 40-60 page range, was that the actual military files only made up 10-15 pages of the record. Basically they were the routine roster records, enlistment and discharge papers. The large majority of the files were made up of letters written over the years by neighbors and relatives to substantiate the pension request. In my case, those letters were very useful since they basically were carefully spelled out descriptions of family relationships. That's my 2 cents worth - you might want to see what additional feedback you get from others on your question. But at least based on my limited experience, if the file is as large as the one you've come across, I'd guess that the very large part of it must be family information - not the somewhat less valuable roster records. Glen Glen Gallagher http://www.lsorevolution.com http://www.glengallagher.com

Tried it again, and everything I click on gets me a THUNK. It must have something to do with security settings or something like that. Has anyone else tried this site? Nolan Hill <ghost2@fiber.net> wrote: Sharon... What an interesting experience!!! I am at a loss as to what happened. Try again, because the site is so worth it. It is loaded with death certificates 1908-1953. See if this works: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html. You use your email to get into the program (once you have registered) and there are some great databases as well as the above Ohio stuff. Good luck, and keep me posted. De Hill -----Original Message----- From: ohmiami-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ohmiami-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sharon Specht Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:36 PM To: ohmiami@rootsweb.com Subject: [OHMIAMI] ? about familysearch site I clicked on your link to the family search site, and tried to register, but all i got was a big klonk out of the computer. You know -the sound it makes that sounds like someone hitting you on the head and saying "you big dummy!" What am I doing wrong? --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.

Barbara, A branch of my Pearsons married into the Oswalts. See below. Steve Pearson Descendants of Ralph Oswalt 1 Ralph Oswalt b: 09 Feb 1923 in Darke Co., OH. d: Feb 2000 in Darke Co., OH. .. +Cora Elizabeth Pearson b: 19 private in Darke Co., OH. m: 03 Nov 1942 in Darke Co., OH. ... 2 Regina Carol Oswalt b: private in Darke Co., OH. ....... +Jack Sullenbarger b: private in Darke Co., OH. m: 07 Jul 1962 in Darke Co., OH. ... 2 Karen Sue Oswalt b: 13 Feb 1945 in Darke Co., OH. d: 27 Feb 2007 in Montgomery Co., Dayton, OH. ....... +Robert Reed b: private in Darke Co., OH. m: 23 Sep 1962 in Darke Co., OH. ... 2 James Ralph Oswalt b: private in Darke Co., OH. ....... +Elaine Margaret Baldwin b: private in Darke Co., OH. m: 02 Aug 1969 in Darke Co., OH. ... 2 Gary Leroy Oswalt b: private in Darke Co., OH ....... +Christina ??? ... 2 Walter Robert Oswalt b: private in Darke Co., OH ....... +Cindy ??? b: Unknown ----- Original Message ----- From: <morrlax@comcast.net> To: <ohmiami@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 4:00 PM Subject: [OHMIAMI] Oswalt family >I am researching my Oswalt line. My grgrgr grandfather was Henry Oswalt-he was born in 1824 in Ohio and moved to Auglaize Co. from Germantown in 1831. I am looking for his father and mother. Henry's death mention states that he is the son of Daniel and Elizabeth Oswalt and that he was born in Germantown. He married Tena Keister of Germantown in 1844. He is buried in Haruff Cemetery in Auglaize County. He lived most of his life in Auglaize. > > In researching census records I have found three Daniel Oswalts in the 1820 Germantown, Miami Co. census. From my research I know that Allen County came from Miami County and that Auglaize County came from Allen County. So this is an educated guess that maybe one of those Daniels is the one I am looking for. This family might have originally traveled from Penn. but do not know when, > > Thanks for any help you can give me. > Barbara morrlax@comcast.net > tdn-net.com/genealogy > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHMIAMI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Dear Listers I already have the first 19 pages of my great great grandfather Silas Pearson's pension papers and hope that by going ahead and ordering it all ( 154 pages ) that I will in fact discover new information that I didn't know yet. Let me ask, is it usually worth seeing the whole record as opposed to just the small part that the person sent me years ago, ( 1970s to early 80s sometime ), from the Nat. Archives? In other words did they look through the entire 154 pages and pull out the "important stuff" and leave the rest ( little to no information ) to save money? You have to admit, $189 is a lot to spend especially if I am not going to acquire anything of worth by buying the entire file. Can anyone elaborate on this for me from experience? Thanks, Steve Pearson

I am researching my Oswalt line. My grgrgr grandfather was Henry Oswalt-he was born in 1824 in Ohio and moved to Auglaize Co. from Germantown in 1831. I am looking for his father and mother. Henry's death mention states that he is the son of Daniel and Elizabeth Oswalt and that he was born in Germantown. He married Tena Keister of Germantown in 1844. He is buried in Haruff Cemetery in Auglaize County. He lived most of his life in Auglaize. In researching census records I have found three Daniel Oswalts in the 1820 Germantown, Miami Co. census. From my research I know that Allen County came from Miami County and that Auglaize County came from Allen County. So this is an educated guess that maybe one of those Daniels is the one I am looking for. This family might have originally traveled from Penn. but do not know when, Thanks for any help you can give me. Barbara morrlax@comcast.net