I have a Smith family I am searching for in White County. Does White County have good resources to contact as does Searcy? I seem to be unable to find a contact. Could anyone out there advise me? Thanks in advance..... Pat James ----- Original Message ----- From: <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> To: <ARSEARCY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 9:33 AM Subject: Re: [ARSEARCY] Searcy County Ancestor Fair > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.arkansas.counties.searcy/3550.1.1.2/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > The actual day of the fair there are many tables set up with various > venders. Some are there to sell books, like the various county historial > societies will have books on that particular county: census, marriages, > cemeteries, wills, court records. Then there are others who will have > their own family history on their table. They are there to share > information they may have on their family and hope people will come talk > to them about the family. They will not have anything to sell, just > hunting for more information and willing to share it with others. Then > there will be commercial tables that are only there to sell books, CDs, > etc. At times there are other miscellaneous offerings. For instance, the > last two years, Leslie Cemetery Association has had a table. They are > trying to find out who is buried in the unmarked graves in this cemetery > and information on each person buried there. Several years there was a > commercial printer who copied and enhanced pictures for those atte! > nding. > > So you can see there is a variety of information available. On Friday > night after the workshops are over, there is a dinner for anyone wishing > to attend. At this you get to talk to all the other folks who are there. > > My husband, C. L. and I, have not missed one of these in the years it has > been held. C. L.'s Boyd family is from Leslie before 1850, so we were > really interested in this fair. It is the neatest thing I have ever > attended. But it is not just for Searcy County families, many other > counties will be represented. > > I think you will enjoy it and am sure you will find things on your > families. > > Sincerely, > Lina Boyd > Dover, Pope Co. AR > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ARSEARCY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >