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Levi Thompson b. 1834ish lived in Alexandria Indiana..brick wall.
uneven:
Thanks Stu.
I really do like that record. Even without the connection to Mary Hughes it sure does have some good signs. Like the names Mary and James and the birth date and proximity to his future wife in the next township over. I've also had several of my relatives use middle names on census records. I have many suspicions that my Levi Thompson is really "Some Name" Levi Thompson. If you're James Thompson, you may want to go by your middle name so people know which one you are. I've also seen the census dates be horribly wrong. In the case of Albert Thompson, 8 years off.
I am really happy to be as far as I am.
uneven:
Now a gripe about ancestry.com.
Because of people using middle names as first names or completely fabricated names and aliases, searching for military records on ancestry.com can be really hard.
For instance, I've found many records for Levi Thompson from Alexandria, but I've searched several indexes in the Volunteer homes for disabled veterans and seen that they are indexed on legal name only. When I look at the actual record it of a Thompson say John Thompson like the index, but it will also say "Alias Richard Payne". The alias is not in the index. Obviously Richard Payne spilled the beans that he's John Thompson when he got to the home, but that alternate information is not in the index.
Imagine you're in the Payne family now looking for your ancestor, you'll never find him searching on name.
The other frustrating thing about this particular index is that it doesn't have the regiment or company information indexed. So I can't really just look at all the entries from the 34th indiana infantry. Because I've been going through looking at records of everyone with a surname that starts with T, I see all these things and while I'm thinking about the poor Payne family that will never find Richard I have to wonder how many people have seen John Knowlton alias Levi Thompson 34th indiana infantry?
Dusevoir:
A story about James L. Thompson in Washington County, Indiana 1880.
Darn middle names!
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uneven:
Thanks Dusevoir! looks like another one bites the dust!
Mary:
Here is a complete roster of the 34th Indiana --- Levi is on page 119.
http://www.civilwarindex.com/armyin/soldiers/34th_in_infantry_soldiers.pdf
And here is the regiment history http://www.civilwarindex.com/armyin/34th_in_infantry.html
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