This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Foss-Stuhr-Bintzler-Stargardt-Hopfensperger- Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2EC.2ACE/3221.1 Message Board Post: Hello. I have been tracing my family tree for about 5-6 yrs., & was contacted on this web site by my fathers', brother's sons boy. If you can follow that! We exchanged names & trees, & found some interesting items about my grandfather. He was drafted into WW1, and also was wounded, served in France & was inducted into the army from the Marathon County area.(Being from the Stratford-Marshfield area.) I entered his company on the net search, & the unit is still around. I even got the phone number & talked to someone at this units office. I have also sent for his military records, but most from certain years were lost in a major fire in the 70's. But they did send what they could. There are several good web sites to check out, in regards to service personel, & all I entered was that I was a grandson & was doing research on my family genealogy. I must get this off to you, so if you contact me by email, I will send more info your way. I live in Indiana, so getting to the Marathon! County Court house is pretty slim. That is where the officer at his old unit headquarters directed me, but I may never get up there again. Hope to hear from you soon. Surnames follow........(Roger)