Marie, Here are a few tips for using the information from ARIAS: 1) The printed volumes of the Pennsylvania Archives, which have gone through several printings, list some of the militia companies complete with all members. These lists are useful for finding relatives and neighbors. You can look for individual soldiers in the printed volumes, but you should realize that they are very incomplete--at least, I found them so. The books are available in many good university and genealogical libraries. 2) The online abstract cards for militia members indicate the county from which the man served and often also indicate the Battalion, Company, and Class, sometimes with the Captain�s name. There is a separate index of Rev War militia officers, and some of the cards in this index list not just the county but the township for the officer. As an example, my John King served, in one instance, under Captain Thomas Davies of Bedford County. Davies card shows him as Captain of the 2nd Co., 1st Battalion from Providence Township 1780-1783�a clue to where my ancestors may have lived. I have also learned that militia members were divided into classes according to county geography. Not sure that class always equals township, but I believe so. Usually contemporary tax lists for the counties were also divided into classes, and if tax lists exist, you can match the service class to a tax list class. In another period of service, John King served in the 5th class. Unfortunately, contempora! ry tax lists for the 5th class in Bedford do not exist, but lists for some other classes do exist for the period shortly after the war. I used them to exclude some townships. In some instances, the numbers of certificates issued after the war are listed. I used the series numbers of certificates issued on 14 March 1787 to link John King with Richard King and a few of their officers listed in John King�s pension record. Although I do not have the register page to look at, since the PA Archives will not send a copy, the cards also indicate the volume and page, and these were also the same. My point is that comparing the information from the card abstracts can help determine whether Sellers within counties are likely to be related or not. 3) The biggest weakness of the online abstracts is that it is an alpha only list. You cannot sort the names by county, battalion, officer, etc. which would be most useful. 4) Finally, for those interested in PA Sellers during other time periods, there are also online abstracts for other major wars at the ARIAS site. Hope this makes sense. Sherry