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Hi All! Starting to get back into the swing of things.......I hope!!! Here are the latest updates! Conecuh Co. Obits of Nelson Mixon, Elizabeth McCall Mixon and Sarah Susannah Mixon Dean with a great many thanks to Joe Defazio!!! ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/conecuh/obits/nmixon.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/conecuh/obits/emcmixon.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/conecuh/obits/ssmdean.txt Also with a great big Thanks you to Lynn White we have the following cemeteries! Wilcox County Vaughn Cemetery (vaughcem.txt) ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/wilcox/cemetery/vaughncem.txt Clarke Co. Bell-Brewer Cemetery (bell-brewer.txt) ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/clarke/cemetery/bell-brewer.txt Forestdale Cemetery (forestdale.txt) ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/clarke/cemetery/forestdale.txt Thank you all! Lygia Dawkins Cutts Cuttstree@Net1inc.net 881 Weaver Road Brewton, AL 36426

Welcome back Leigh! I'm so sorry to hear about your mother! I have a question I hope someone can answer for me. I am the Temp Coordinator for Crenshaw County. A gentleman has contacted me because he wants to take over as coordinator. He has filled out the online form and I have written to you Leigh about this (I know you have tons of stuff to catch up on). He's going to need my help to get started and I would like to do that. Here's the problem. I'm leaving town on the 13th for three weeks. I would like to have him up and running before then. Can I go ahead and do this or do I need to wait for the OK? Any help would be appreciated. We are both anxious to get the transition over with. Thanks, Kristy Williams ----- Original Message ----- From: Leigh Compton <elsi@augustmail.com> To: <ALGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 1999 7:37 PM Subject: [ALGEN-L] News of Note > Hello all, > > Just a quick update from your State Coordinator. > > I've been doing quite a bit of travelling in the last month. My mother > died on 29 June and I travelled to Alabama for her funeral. During her > final illness, I had not been able to keep my usual work travel schedule, > so the last few weeks have been busy trying to catch up with all this > postponed business travel. > > Although I travel with a laptop and am able to keep up with the most > essential e-mail, I generally don't do any website maintenance from the > laptop so that I don't wind up with files scattered around. I hope you've > been seeing the information on the USGenWeb elections. This weekend, I'm > busy making a number of updates to the ALGenWeb site. > > Tuscaloosa County pages have moved to http://www.rootsweb.com/~altuscal/ > Lauderdale County link corrected to > http://www.rootsweb.com/~allauder/index.htm > > The ALGenWeb home page links to Carol Middleton's Alabama Marriage Indexes > have been changed to: > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cmddlton/albrd1.html > and > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cmddlton/algrm1.html > > Mailing list page has been updated to include all the new county mailing > lists on RootsWeb. If any county coordinators are using mailing lists on > other servers, please send me information and I'll include them on the page > at http://www.rootsweb.com/~algenweb/mailing.html > > More to come. > > Regards, > Leigh >

One more for the road! Thanks to David Morgan for allowing me to upload the following from the OKGENWEB Archives we have the following: Thanks to Marti Graham, some very brief biographies on many Civil War officers are now in the OK archives. Most of these guys never set foot in Oklahoma, as far as I know, but Custer made a lasting impression on a Cheyenne village near the Washita River before he got his reward at the Little Big Horn. ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/military/civilwar/bios/b4000001.txt General David Bell Birney ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/military/civilwar/bios/m6250001.txt General John Hunt Morgan These bios are from the following book, published in 1907. COMPLETE TITLE OF THIS BOOK IS: Official Portfolio of War and Nation "A Graphic and Pictorial History Prepared Directly from the Government Records in the Departments of War and Statistics" "Story, Complete And Official, Of All The Political Issues, Campaigns, Engagements, and Heroic Episodes Of The Titanic And Dreadful Conflict Between the states on land and sea .. .. .." "Leaders Of The North And South, Fraternizing Under The Symbol Of Indestructible Union, Submit This Work As Their Impartial Report of the War, its conception, prosecution, and results" "Accompanied by the complete, superb collection of the famous war pictures." "drawn upon the spot by the Government's great artists of that time BAKER WEVILL NEWTON WAND CRANE SUNORIS RAWSON HEILLEN BEARD OSBORN RUSSELL BECKER SCHELL WILCOX SARTONS LOVIE LUMBERG WEAVER CHAMBERLAIN DAVIS FORBES BOSSE TAYLOR "Narrative and descriptive by John Clark Ridpath, Rossiter Johnson, General Fitzhugh Lee, General John T. Morgan, George L. Kilmer and General Joseph B. Carr." "Carefully edited by General Marcus F. Wright of the War Department Washington, D. C." 608 pages Copyright. 1907 BY G. F. Stanley Lygia Dawkins Cutts Cuttstree@Net1inc.net 881 Weaver Road Brewton, AL 36426

Hello all, Just a quick update from your State Coordinator. I've been doing quite a bit of travelling in the last month. My mother died on 29 June and I travelled to Alabama for her funeral. During her final illness, I had not been able to keep my usual work travel schedule, so the last few weeks have been busy trying to catch up with all this postponed business travel. Although I travel with a laptop and am able to keep up with the most essential e-mail, I generally don't do any website maintenance from the laptop so that I don't wind up with files scattered around. I hope you've been seeing the information on the USGenWeb elections. This weekend, I'm busy making a number of updates to the ALGenWeb site. Tuscaloosa County pages have moved to http://www.rootsweb.com/~altuscal/ Lauderdale County link corrected to http://www.rootsweb.com/~allauder/index.htm The ALGenWeb home page links to Carol Middleton's Alabama Marriage Indexes have been changed to: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cmddlton/albrd1.html and http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cmddlton/algrm1.html Mailing list page has been updated to include all the new county mailing lists on RootsWeb. If any county coordinators are using mailing lists on other servers, please send me information and I'll include them on the page at http://www.rootsweb.com/~algenweb/mailing.html More to come. Regards, Leigh

This election runs through August 23, 1999. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [STATE-COORD-L] USGenWeb Run Off Election Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 15:25:32 -0400 From: jpowelljr <jpowelljr@worldnet.att.net> To: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com Hi Fellow Volunteers... This is a second notice to make sure that everyone has been informed of the new voting system. Hopefully this new system will make it easier for you as well as easier for the Election Committee. The URL for the page that will accept you vote is http://vote.rootsweb.com/usgw-nc.html . Remember as with the old email system, you can vote as many times as you want, but only your last ballot will count. As always send your questions or comments to elections@usgenweb.org. Thanks, The Election Committee

Hi Fellow Volunteers... We would like to announce the New Archives Representative. We have been informed that it is now official, Joe Zsedeny is the New Board Member from the Archives Project. Thanks, the Election Committee ==== USGenWeb-SE Mailing List ==== Congratulations new SE/MA CC Rep! Jim Powell, Jr <jpowelljr@worldnet.att.net>

Hi All! Sorry to be so long in this update, but as most already know..been having back problems and it is slowly but surely getting better. Thank you to those who have written to me wishing me well! Chamber Co. From our asst. David and Contributor Robin Coulter! Will of Jordan Sanders ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/wills/s5360001.txt (David, please forward to Robin as I don not have her email addy handy at the moment, Thank you) Chilton Co. From our asst. David Dennis - 1880 Chilton Co. Census, Dist. 1 ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chilton/census/1880 Dale Co. From our asst. Sandra and contributor Christine G. Thacker Grimes Family Bio ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/dale/bios/grimesbio.txt Clay Co. from our regular contributor Patricia Scott The beginnings of Will Book A ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/clay/wills/claywillbka.txt ALso from Patricia A corrected index for Marriage Books A,B,C and a corrected copy of Marriage Book A ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/clay/marriage/claymarrbka.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/clay/marrige/clayindxabc.txt Houston Co. for long time contributor Judith Fowler Tombstone Epitaphs of the Winslette Chapel Methodist Church ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/houston/cemetery/winsletepit.txt Also The Marion Co 1850 census index link has been corrected ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/marion/census/1850 and from Bobby Seales - Shelby Co. CC, correction to the 1850 Shelby Co. census. ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/shelby/census/1850 Some of these have been long in coming and I apologize for the time it has taken to get these posted. I hope I got everything! Not only has my back been giving me fits but my puter time has been slack here of late and it's hard to get things up and going. Thank you for your patience! AND A GREAT MANY THANKS TO ALL OF OUR ASST.'s AND OUR CONTRIBUTORS!!! Lygia Dawkins Cutts Cuttstree@Net1inc.net 881 Weaver Road Brewton, AL 36426

If you are linked to Amelia Willcutt's Alabama queries, the new URL is http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~willcutt/1999/ Have you voted in the NC run off yet? It really works fast, including the confirmation! David dmorgan@efn.org David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii http://www.rootsweb.com/~okbeckha/coordinate.html http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~dmorgan/index.html

Fellow Volunteers... Due to recently forseen Circumstances, you will not be receiving Run Off Elections Ballots this evening. The Run Off Election has not been postponed. To see the reason for this contradictory message please go to http://vote.rootsweb.com/usgw-nc.html and follow the directions and PROCEED TO VOTE. Thanks for understanding, The Election Committee

Hi, fellow USGenWeb project members, On September 1st I will taking office as CC Representative for the Southeast/Mid-Atlantic region, joining Jim Powell, who continues in the second year of his term. I plan, at least initially, to use the list USGENWEB-SE-L as my main way to consult the CC's of this region as to your opinions, with copies to USGENWEB-DISCUSS-L (other forums may evolve.) For example, I will shortly be opening discussion on possible amendments to the By-Laws - first and foremost, making them easier to amend! If you are interested in actively participating in the business of running the USGENWEB project, please join one or both of these two lists. [ATTN STATE COORDINATORS: If you are the SC for a state in the SE/M-A region other than Kentucky, could you please forward this message to your state list? Many project volunteers may not be on the USGENWEB-SE-L list, and I would like at least the chance to say hello to everyone in the region. Thanks.] If you have any concerns that you would like to have brought before the advisory board, you can either send me email or post a message to the USGENWEB-SE-L list. I'm looking forward to working with you all in the two years ahead. ************************************** PLEASE VOTE IN THE RUNOFF ELECTION !!! ************************************** Teri Pettit || home: 1048 Almanor Ave. Adobe Systems Inc. || Menlo Park, CA 94025 San Jose, CA 95110-2704 || (650) 326-2363 (408) 536-3086 || email: pettit@adobe.com CC Representative-Elect for Southeast/MidAtlantic region: http://www.best.com/~tpettit/usgenweb/board99.html KYGenWeb County Coordinator for Rowan Co. Kentucky: http://www.best.com/~tpettit/rowan/ (original location since '96) http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyrowan/ (new mirror on Rootsweb) ==== USGenWeb-SE Mailing List ==== The Official By-Laws Page http://www.usgenweb.org/official/bylaws.html

Fellow Volunteers... Here are the results of our elections. We have 7 races with a decision and 2 still to be decided. We would like to say thank you to all of the Candidates for being willing to serve in these positions. And to the Volunteers for voting, thank you. All of you are winners because you participated. The races that have been decided are... At-Large Representative results - 458 ballots cast 61 : Gary Martens 109 : Roger Swafford 288 : Holly Timm.........New Board Member Northeast/North Central County Coordinator Rep results - 160 ballots cast 59 : Ron Eason 84 : Tina S. Vickery.........New Board Member 17 : Nate Zipfel Northeast/North Central State Coordinator Rep results - 13 ballots cast 7 : Ginger Hayes..........New Board Member 6 : David Young Northwest/Plains State Coordinator Rep results - 14 ballots cast 5 : Lynn Waterman 9 : Joy Fisher.............New Board Member Southwest/South Central County Coordinator Rep results - 136 ballots cast 59 : Barbara Dore......... New Board Member 2 year term 45 : Larry Flesher 45 : Teresa Lindquist 52 : Gloria B. Mayfield....New Board Member 1 year term Northwest/Plains Region CC Representative Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman.... New Board Member... With one vote from the Board Secretary in unopposed race. Southeast/Mid-Atlantic Representative CC Representative Teri Pettit............New Board Member... With one vote from the Board Secretary in unopposed race. There will be a run off election to decide the following races. The Runoff will begin Midnight Wednesday August 4th and end Midnight Wednesday August 18th. National Coordinator results - 515 ballots cast 253 : Tim Stowell 160 : Fred Smoot 102 : Bill Oliver Southeast/Mid-Atlantic State Coordinator Rep results - 22 ballots cast 11 : Leigh Compton 11 : Shari Handley These results will will soon be posted at http://www.rootsweb.com/~mogenweb/election/state.htm . Well it not quite over, but if you have suggestions or complaints or even possibly a compliment, we would be pleased to accept them at elections@usgenweb.org . Thanks for your support, The Election Committee

Hello all. This note just came out from the USGenWeb Census Project: AL / Chilton / 1880 (Partial) Dist/Twp/City: District 1 ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/census/al/chilton/1880 notes.txt partial.txt pg002b.txt pg008b.txt Regards, Leigh

I have noticed that several states and counties have started pages that deal with unidentified photos and with memorabilia that has been located and they cannot find the rightful heirs. I have started a page for links to such sites for all counties and states that have these pages. I would like for anyone that has a site for these things to please contact me so that I may add a link to YOUR site, whether it be State or County level! If you do not have such a site, you might want to think about creating one. I have already had many submissions to my own, and requests for additional ones in other states, but as I am not part of the states in question, I would not want to be the one to have such sites for those states. For examples of the unidentified photo pages see: http://www2.crosswinds.net/~sdcounk/mystery.htm For the memorabilia see: http://www.rootsweb.com/~cogenweb/goldmine/goldmin.htm To see the links pages : Mystery Gallery Project (unidentified photos) http://www.rootsweb.com/~cogenweb/mystery/index.htm The Gold Mine Project: (memorabilia) http://www.rootsweb.com/~cogenweb/goldmine/index.htm I would also appreciate a link to these two projects pages. Thank you, Lynn cestus3@inetnebr.com

Hi Fellow Volunteers... Our election is almost over. Before anyone has time to start asking "where are the results" we would like to tell you when they will be released. We will be posting the results Monday August 2nd at 10 PM EST. We would appreciate your continued patience. Thanks, Jim and the Election Committee

Barbour County has been updated and I invite everyone to drop in and see the new look of the page. Margie

While this topic may not be appropriate for this mailing list, I am a little concerned for all of the Butler County researchers as well as all other genealogists. Today I received an email reference some errors in one of my family lines that I have on my personal web site. I then received another email with the same information except that a file had been attached. I immediately recognized this file (happy99.exe) as one that had been placed on the virus list. As a result I did not download it. Instead I forwarded it to another address which I occasionally used which allows me to run a scan for viruses before downloading the file. My hutch was correct in that it was a virus. Happy99 is an incurable virus that will total wipe out your computer once downloaded. Had I not scanned the file for viruses my computer would have been destroyed. I immediately contacted the person who sent me the family information to learn that they did not attach an files. According to the sender, they attempted to send me an email for the address on the Butler County web page. They said another name appeared and it apparently went to that person who relayed it somehow to me, along with the file containing the virus. I have verified the email address link on the Butler County page and it is correct. Please note: If you should happen to use this link and any other name or address appears, PLEASE copy it down and report it to me or to GeoCities so that together we may be able to put a stop to whoever is sending this virus. Researching our family lines is difficult enough without someone attempting to send us viruses under the pretense of it being genealogy material. If you have doubts about any files that are forwarded to you, please scan them before downloading them. Thanks, and happy hunting. Mildred Stinson Brown - Butler County Co-Ordinator Gatesville, TX <A HREF="http://geocities.yahoo.com/BourbonStreet/Canal/8924/index.htm">Butler County, Alabama</A> - ALGenWeb Site http://geocities.yahoo.com/BourbonStreet/Canal/8924 <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/heartland/ranch/5448">Families of Butler County, Alabama</A> http://www.geocities.com/heartland/ranch/5448 <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/heartland/estates/7696">Kenneth Brown's Genealogy Page</A> http://www.geocities.com/heartland/estates/7696 <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/senate/7917">Courthouses of Texas</A> http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/senate/7917

Hi All! Struggling through with a throwed out back...but making it!! It's much better today! Dale Co. Pension Records of Stephen Grimes - War of 1812 ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/dale/military/war1812/pension/sgrimes .txt Submitted by Christine Lowndes Co. Letter from William C. Montogmery to his mother 1838 ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lowndes/letters/wmontogmery.txt Submitted by Beth Collins Conecuh/ Butler/Lowndes Bio of Thomas Hawkins ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/conecuh/bios/thawkbio.txt submitted by Mary Ann Nichols Bio of Stephen Hawkins ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/conecuh/bios/shawkbio.txt Submitted by Mary Ann Nichols Pike/Coffee Bio of Peter Francis Tew & Caroline Salona Long ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/pike/bios/pftewbio.txt Submitted by Mary Ann Nichols Wilcox Co. Will of Josiah E. Irby ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/wilcox/wills/irbywill.txt Submitted B.J. Smothers, cc for Wilcox Co. Chambers Co Estate of Jonathan Musick ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/probate/m2200001.txt 38 KB Submitted by Glenda Brack UCMEGEEBEE@aol.com Estate of Margaret Musick ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/probate/m2200002.txt 21 KB Submitted by Glenda Brack UCMEGEEBEE@aol.com And many thanks to David our asst.! A great big thank you to all of our contributors!!! I haven't check the links yet so if you find one not working, please let me know! Thanks! Lygia Dawkins Cutts Cuttstree@Net1inc.net 881 Weaver Road Brewton, AL 36426

Good Morning Everyone, I'm sorry to cause this inconvenience, but if you have links to the Lauderdale Co AL web pages, then you need to change the URL. I know it looks the same, at first glance, but believe me, it's not - the upper case "I" in 'index' has been changed to lower case. http://www.rootsweb.com/~allauder/index.htm Thanks, Pat M. Mahan CC Lauderdale Co ALGenWeb

Please forgive the typos, folks. It's been a hard day at the computer. Mildred