Wow! Sure a lot of people showed up for roll call. Good thing I decided to come back to visit after being absent for a few weeks. Please add me to your (ever-growing) list. Using the tv weathermen's lingo, I'm from SoCal. Thanks Minnie for undertaking this huge task. Kat

If he was lucky, his body may have been shipped home for burial. Search newspapers near his hometown starting with his assummed death date. Check to see if there are any genealogical libraries in his home county. I presume he was a Union soldier which would be in your favor. The union records are more complete than for Confederates. There are records in Washington DC that are accessible to the public. Use google to uncover these. There may be Iowa state records. Search for these. There were several mass burials during that war driven by expediency. If he is one of these, his grave site may never be known. Two years ago, I toured Antetiem and saw the site of a mass burial. During that fight, soildiers were mowed down faster than they could be identified. The attendant crew gave up on regular burial and stacked a line of bodies against a stone wall. They threw maybe a foot of dirt over the bodies to put them on hold for later. A few days after the fighting had stopped and the site secured, attendants began unearthing the bodies atacked against the wall and identifications were made as possible. Not every soldier could be identified. Some identifications were enhanced if a live person could ID the man and vouch it was him. In some cases, the person who could vouch for an identy was also himself in the same pile of dead soldiers. At first at Antetiem, the attendants tried to separate the Union and Confederate bodies, but as the battle raged on they gave up and piled everyone together. It was a dangerous place for the cleanup crew as well. When you have exhausted the usual sources, try google to see what it can did up (no pun intended). Try these search strings: surname, first name, "civil war" If he was a union soldier, you might include that. surname, firstname, "civil war", union If this doesn't uncover anything, try: "first name last name" "civil war" union The quotes are important. Phrases inside a quote is treated as one word whcih reduces the number of hits. If nothing turns up, try variants of his name. This works fairly well unless your guy has a very common name such as brown, smith, James and John. These names will generate thousands of hits.

My friend got a job in California, I think central, but then she looked at housing prices and the cost of rentals and declined it. Mamatoad, I loved Tucson when I lived there. Lots to do even if you had to drive a ways to get there. Loved the mountain in the summer Mt. Lemon? The desert museum and some canyon I can't remember now. I don't recall spending much time in downtown Tuscon. In fact, the only time I remember is when my roommate talked me into getting my hair done with her a fancy salon. It was wonderful, two guys owned it and they messaged your scalp for about an hour while shampooing your hair. I never went back because it was over $100 and I was a poor airman. Linda, I love busy places with lots of things to do but after a few days I can't handle the traffic. Went to Suffolk Virginia and we drove into Norfolk. Awful traffic, too many freeways, stupid drivers. I think the worst was driving through Richmond. I thought I was going to get killed. Big rig drivers driving way too fast, running up people's behinds, and weaving in and out of traffic like someone in a sports car would do. It was horrible. I bypassed Richmond on the way home.

I am adding Toni_ne. Yes, I am signing up, I just haven't added me to the list. I'll be last! Please, if you want to sign up, do it now. I want to make sure everyone receives their cards in time to decorate with them. Please, remember that it will take a week for the Canadian people to receive their cards from the US and at least two weeks for Europe/Australia to receive theirs. I know times are tough this year. If you would like to participate, but the postage for regular cards is a little much, post cards are 27 cents in the US. You can always buy the post cards in the business section (like labels and business cards) where you find the photo paper, ect in Walmart, and run them thru you photo program with whatever picture you would like on them, and send those! Maybe you have a great pic of last year's tree, or a beautiful waterfall, or snow scene. Make use of them! I have started using some of the pictures we take on our travels and turning them into cards, get well, thinking of you, birthday, ect. Could even be your pets. Can you tell I am trying to learn to think outside the box?! Please join us. If you are a newbie, there are a number of people willing to exchange with you. I guess next year, if I organize it, I won't restrict it like I have in the past, due to the reaction I got this year. 01.Vannie GramzeeinMD Zipper_TX Kathsgrdn Pattico Janie_ga Jackie_ok Minnie_tx Monica_pa Ont_gal Terilyn Phyllis_mn Tannatonk Mombondo Gneegirl Lydia1959 country_bumpkin_al Bigfoot_liz Msprettyky Marilyn_c Daisy_3 Angela_nor_calif Happy_go_lucky_gayle Nookie Mamatoad Dances in garden Scissors Cheryl_ok Nicole_ont Gabby_girl Heather_ONT Nan_nc Mscsippy Danihoney Stoneybaloney Lindalou MaryAnn tx Jacquelyn Toni_ne Tami_ohio Tami