I thought this might be the clue we all need someday when grandpa shows up in uniform and you dont know where or when he served. Jackie Crazy Horse said "A people without a history is like wind on the buffalo grass." "Yigaguu osaniyu adanvto adadoligi nigohilvi nasquv utloyasdi nihi!" ("May the Great Spirit's blessings always be with you") Cherokee Surnames: THOMAS, TOWLES, POPE, BRIDGES, ROBB, HARRINGTON, MOORE, RILEY tanimara@townsqr.com website for dogs and native heritage http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/twyford/461/dogs.html genealogy website http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/w/o/o/Jacqueline-K-Wood/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: Don Randle To: Jackie Wood Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 10:25 PM Subject: Web Addresses Identifying Military uniforms: http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/ U.S. Air Force Museum: http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/ Sources for identifying symbols on military markers: Continental Society Sons of Indian Wars: http://members.tripod.com/~CSSIW Descendants of Mexican War Veterans: http://www.dmwv.org/ General Society of Colonial Wars: http://www.ubalt.edu/gscw General Society of the War of 1812: http://LanClio.org/1812.htm National Society of the Children of the American Revolution: http://www.nscar.org/ National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution: http://www.dar.org/index.html Order of Indian Wars of the United States: http://members.tripod.com/~Historic_Trust/indian.htm National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution: http://www.sar.org/ Spanish-American War Sources: The Spanish American War Centennial: http://www.spanam.simplenet.com/ Spanish-American War Site: http://www.ecsis.net/~jrwilobe/ Texas Volunteers - Spanish American War Military Rolls 1898-1901: http://www.pcworld.com/r/tw/1%2C2061%2Ctw-gen0214m%2C00.html The 1836 Texas War of Independence: Military Research Room: http://www.lineages.com/military/mil_tx.asp The Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library @ the Alamo (research services): http://www.drtl.org/ Seige and Battle of the Alamo: http://www.lsjunction.com/events/alamo.htm Descendants of Mexican War Veterans: http://www.dmwv.org/ USIGS Military Collection Mexican-American War: http://www.pcworld.com/r/tw/1%2C2061%2Ctw-gen0214a%2C00.html Mexican American War Memorial: http://sunsite.unam.mx/revistas/1847/ Lost Records of the War of 1812: http://pcworld.com/r/tw/1%2C2061%2Ctw-gen0214c%2C00.html Military History: War of 1812: http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/milhist/1812.html USIGS Collection of Links: http://www.pcworld.com/r/tw/1%2C2061%2Ctw-gen0214e%2C00.html Where to get War of 1812 Records: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyharris/1812how.htm War of 1812 Pay Rolls and Muster Rolls (searchable collection): http://image.vtls.com/collections/WA.html War of 1812: Fort McHenry: http://www.bcpl.lib.md.us/~etowner/patriots.html Overview of the War of 1812 from a Canadian perspective: http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmil/1812/1812view.htm The Patriots War of 1837-1838: Fort Wellington, Canada: http://www.pcworld.com/r/tw/1%2C2061%2Ctw-gen0214u%2C00.html The Battle of the Windmill: http://www.pcworld.com/r/tw/1%C2061%2Ctw-gen0214n%2C00.html