Hi Everyone, Three more additions to the Hampden County site to let you know about. Tech Tiger, the 1930 school yearbook for the Springfield Technical High School. About 215 featured graduating seniors (head shots, street addresses and descriptions) plus over a thousand additional names and street addresses for the lower classmen in the school. Also sports and interesting school activities, such as the Banjo, Riding and Model Airplane Clubs. In general, D.O.B. is estimated to be around 1913. Harper's Weekly, a popular illustrated newspaper, published in 1861 "Manufacturing Muskets at the U.S. Armory, Springfield, Massachusetts." Essentially this is a graphic depiction of various jobs/processes associated with the production of muskets, but interesting, especially is you have Civil War era ancestors or a special interest in that time. If your ancestors worked in the paper manufacturing industry, you might want to take a look at "How Paper is Made" -- includes a historical sketch and a detailed description of the process of paper making at the mills of the Whiting Paper Company, Holyoke, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1923. Interesting way to learn about some of the jobs and the machinery without too much technical detail. Excellent for classroom use also. Finally, there has been some discussion about lookup resources and I wanted to remind everyone that there is a lookup page on the Hampden County site. It may be accessed by clicking on the "Making Connections" button on the main page. This has had only a couple minor updates over a rather long period of time, so if your mail bounces, please alert me. More importantly, if you have a lookup resource and are willing to be added to the list, contact me and I will list your ASAP. I will be traveling a little bit during the next couple weeks, but will try to get to my email as best I can. Cheers, Laurel