This weeks stop on the Virtual Tour is Marion Co AR located in the beautiful Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. (For those of you who are bass fishermen Flippin AR is the home of Ranger Bass Boats and Bull Shoals is a part of Marion Co) 1) introduce yourself: I'm Linda Haas Davenport and I have been the hostess of Marion Co since early 1997. 2) identify your CC sites (include the urls, please): I have only one USGenWeb Project site and that is Marion Co AR http://rootsweb.com/~armarion 3) tell us what you are most proud of on your own site: When I took over the site in 1997 it consisted of a few queries. It now has well over 2,000 pages of information for the visitor and we average about 500 visitors a month - which is wonderful for such a small, sparsely populated county. 4) let us know of your special competence's/skills in developing your site When I took over the site I only had the vaguest notion of what HTML was, had only been on the web for a short time, but I did have the desire to offer the average visitor information and help in their search for their family in Marion Co. As time passed I became more skilled at HTML (although I still use Word97 as my WYSIWYG) and have tried to present the huge amount of information on the Marion Co site in a way that the average family searcher can easily navigate. As for my own skills as a researcher I think the best way to explain my knowledge and background is to extend an invitation for you to drop by my home page and check out my "Learning Center". http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas/learningcenter.html This past year I've been the Chair of the USGenWeb Election Committee and due to the huge amount of time I've had to spend on that committee my Marion Co site has suffered. I, like so many of us, work full time and have only a limited amount of free time to devote to my hobby. Thank you for visiting Marion Co AR. Linda homepage: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas MarionCoAR: http://rootsweb.com/~armarion SurnameLists: H.A.A.S/H.A.S.S. L.E.W.A.L.L.E.N