http://www.wvlc.wvnet.edu/history/medallst.html LIST OF UNCLAIMED UNION CIVIL WAR MEDALS AT THE WEST VIRGINIA STATE ARCHIVES In order to claim an ancestor's medal, a claimant must submit his or her line of descent from the veteran along with documentation to support this line of descent. To establish line of descent, claimants must include copies of primary sources, including birth, death, marriage, will, deed, military, census, Bible records, etc. Old letters, diaries, marriage announcements, or obituaries may also prove helpful in verifying a descendant's claim. Plea= se note that a family chart submitted without further documentation is not sufficient. Adrianne Researching: Hunsucker, Griffith, Kirby, Whitlatch, Kennedy, Vandeford, Hopkins, Plummer, Golden, Nuckolls, Warbington, King, Cushman and Hadaway, as my main lines. http://members.tripod.com/~ahopkins/index.html Genealogist HAVE no other hobbies!!!! <G>