bj London, You just grab you some microfilm of public records...and transcribe to your heart's content and no one is in a hurry!!!! You sound like a perfect person to do..."as long as I am able I'll do what I can"...well you know what? That is all anyone can do, what they can...but with a lotsa folks doing what they can...mountains can be moved. Anyone willing to do what they can, with what they have to do with...is A-OK!!!!! Now here we have a woman who has a hand in a shape...and still willing to do what she can. Hmmm....sounds to me like that ort to give pause for thought! jan At 11:18 PM 1/22/02 -0600, you wrote: >I would be glad to help in any way I can. I don't know nearly as much as >the rest of you do. I am disabled I lost all the fingers on my right hand >except my pinkie and it is in a bent position, in an accident at work 5 >years ago, so I don't type very fast, but if someone will give me a job, as >long as I am able I'll do what I can. My brain still works fairly well, >except for the senior moments. >bj london >----- Original Message ----- >From: "j" <unicorn@sun-spot.com> >To: <DanvilleCrossing-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 10:39 PM >Subject: RE: Lighting fires > > >Good gal, Rene!!! <BG> We got a dream...yeah...and we want all kinds of >dreamers to help us turn it into reality!!!!! YESS.... > >At 10:04 PM 1/22/02 -0600, you wrote: > >I've been a member of this list for a couple of years, but hadn't visited > >the Benton County web site for awhile. I know y'all do a lot of work on > >that, too. I was soooo excited recently to find a bit about my grandfather > >and grandmother's (Joe and Ethel Goodman) old homeplace up by Pilot's Knob. > >I love the fact that stories have been collected, not just names, dates, >and > >facts. I haven't found that on other web sites. Thanks to you all for the > >work that you do. Let me see how the next month pans out and maybe I could > >transcribe just a little. > > > >Rene' > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: j [mailto:unicorn@sun-spot.com] > >Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 7:58 PM > >To: DanvilleCrossing-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: Lighting fires > > > > > >It is good to see this list moving again...its purpose is absolutely one > >that has to be....and that vision was seen a long long time ago by Dan and > >Dave, long time before most of us ever showed up on the web. It has to do > >with "crossings" all right...originally the crossing paths of ancestors, > >and how we could lose them in one place and have them turn up in > >another...the reason why all the county lists need to work with this one. > > > >But it grew into something else...crossing...of all of us, our paths > >crossing and re-crossing, and sometimes crossing bridges. We are about to > >cross a bridge folks, a BIG bridge...a fire has been lighted. The dream of > >long ago has had an ember catch a breath of new air....and when it did, it > >lit up a bridge we hadn't been looking for. We are about to embark on a > >dream here....folks? Who wants to be part of the dream? Hmmm? Who wants to > >be sure that anyone, ANYone needing records in this area...finds them, > >immediately, where ever they are in the world? Well do you want to just use > >them and be the amen corner? Or do you want to help provide them? Waiting > >here...cause this is going to take a lot of folks. We want to transcribe, > >anything, everything, all that will make it all available...who is willing > >to bite the bait and start making this happen? > > > >jan > > > > > >==== DanvilleCrossing Mailing List ==== > >Okay.... so I don't descend from anyone...... > >Now What ???? > > > > > > > >==== DanvilleCrossing Mailing List ==== > >Okay.... so I don't descend from anyone...... > >Now What ???? > > >==== DanvilleCrossing Mailing List ==== >My family tree must have been used for Firewood !!! > > > >==== DanvilleCrossing Mailing List ====>GENEALOGY goes on... and on... and on...