Hi again everyone, The second wave of backlogged files is now uploaded. The new additions to the Homestead are in the following areas: census records land records marriage records medieval (garage) military records obituaries probate records passenger & immigrations Again, if you've forgotten where each Homestead area is, please use our site map. You still will NOT be able to use the search engine for this new data because there hasn't been enough time for our site to get spidered. For the next couple days, it will still have to be a manual search. :`( And, at the Cottage: certificates project (in the greatroom) All of the backlogged files from the reunions and our family Christmases are now online. If you submitted files for these two events and don't see the data online, please contact me immediately. Also again, if you visit the pages, please do something for me... make sure there are no beach or Christmas decorations/backgrounds lingering on the page(s) you view. If any links don't work, please let me know right away. Some of the (older) file extensions may be html rather than the htm I assigned. For you newest cousins to the family (since I neglected to add this information in my message yesterday), our site URLs follow: Bower Family Homestead <http://bowercommunity.com/homestead> Bower Cottage <http://bowercommunity.com/cottage> I noticed that while we're finally getting more Baur, Brower and Brouwer information online, those surnames are still sadly lacking. Does anyone have any material they'd like to submit to the Homestead or Cottage? If so, please contact me. I hope you're all having a SUPER Saturday! :) It's snowing here and all I want to do is sleep, sleep, SLEEP! But, no rest for the weary... I'm off to work on my (now) backlogged EMAIL!!! Colleen