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From: Jan Heiling <>
Subject: Re: Concord Twp., Delaware Co., PA
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 21:19:25 -0800
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Greetings,

wrote:

> Hi Jan,
>
> Thank you for your input but this is not the way to find what
> I'm looking for.

>
> The most easiest way to find the veterans from the Civil War,
> who lived in Concord Twp., is to send a query to a genealogy mailing
> list for the said county. I need info from family members not historic
> lists. Hence my query.

I understood your query, however to your comments
I beg to differ with you on this one... historical war lists do include
people/soldiers, their histories and the opportunity to learn, and keep up to
date, on the whereabouts of the type of information which you are after in your
research. More to the point, this is where people talk about their soldiers and
families. I suspect that the percentage of soldiers for a given Twp that one
will learn about from only family members on the local genealogy mailing list
is a low percentage.

> My next step is to check the 1890 Schedules for Union Vets &
> Schedules for Widows of Union Vets of the Civil War -- living in
> Concord Twp.
>
> Then go on to the VA Office at the court house & search all the
> index cards of the Civil War Vets buried at cemeteries in Concord Twp.
>
> I will also have to start with the Federal Census Records from 1850
> - 1870 to find the surnames of the families living in Concord Twp.
>
> I ordered & received 37 Civil War Vets' gravestones for St. Martin's
> Cemetery, do to research! I don't feel this is "a monumental task" but
> a "great pleasure" & I hope to help Concord Twp. with their Civil War List!
> :)

Yes, of course it is a "great pleasure" ... the ceremony done at the gravesite
for the gravestone is very memorable; it was done for one of my relatives in
Ill.

> The websites you sent me do not have all the regiments & companies
> of PA. If you go to this website & you find a regiment & company of
> a soldier you are interested in -- it only gives you his name not where
> he is from.

Yes, and noticably 'short' to be complete ... but please remember it was only a
response suggesting "starters" for what appeared to me, the reader, a 'cold'
start.

Again, good luck with your venture ... it sounds like a plan,
Jan

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