Good morning! A hectic one here with a heavy schedule. I hope you're learning from the pension applications - it is interesting to know what the old veterans owned and sometimes what "desperate" shape they were in. This morning's post - two vets, in the 60's --- due to age can't work much, fatigue, shoulder and back pain. Well, maybe I should have applied!!! It was illegal for the soldier to dispose of property or try to hide his assets before applying for a pension and they wanted their application to indicate why they needed assistance. Thus the wives are decrepit, the children unable to work, the horse broken down, the land 3rd rate (the lowest of the land classifications) .....and many aches and pains. One of the Gorin soldiers of the Civil War applied for a pension; I obtained his military papers from National Archives many years ago. There were over 300 pages and by the time the file ended; he had 20-30 diseases, had driven the county clerk I am sure quite crazy with his almost daily petitions for increased pension. He had a large family; the battle he was in was fought literally in his front yard, but he kept trying for more money. He had about 5 doctors in two counties attesting to his condition. Pensions were not much and most of the veterans honestly deserved them. But it is interesting to see what they claimed! Charlie has put the weekly puzzler on the website - this one might be a little more difficult but something that Kentucky researchers need to know! Give it a try by clicking on the URL in my signature line called gensoup. I'll be back tomorrow with a Monroe Co post - and now, I'm tracking one my daughter's flights to Salt Lake City for a photography symposium there - technology is great when you can see a simulation of where they are, altitude, speed, etc! Thanks to one of our listers, I have found hundreds more of biographies on our KY ancestors in MO, many of whom were from Barren Co and adjacent counties covered on this list. I'll be posting them to the KYBIOGRAPHIES list along with the other bios I post daily. Thanks for the good reports on the tip I passed on Friday about increasing the size of the print on your emails - hear that it also works when reading the census records and other records on line. If your mouse doesn't have a center button, it won't work of course. See you tomorrow! Sandi Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html SCKY Links: http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore/Gorin.html GGP: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/