Location of .emacs in Windows 7

[Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com>]

Using C-x C-f I can read in, edit and store .emacs in ~/.emacs . 
However, when I search for the file, I cannot find it.

I was also trying to store an org file in ~/org-mode/work.org .  It 
seemed sometimes that it would read those files from ~/org-mode/work.org 
and write them to c:/Users/<User>/AppData/Roaming/org-mode/work.org . 
And I could not find that file/path either.

I have taken to storing the org files in 
C:/Users/<User>/Desktop/org-file/work.org .  It works but I would rather 
use ~/org-mode for the directory.

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks, Steve