> Illinois Harvest, the ongoing digitization program at the library of the > University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has three Prairie Farmer > directories > available free on-line in your choice of PDF, TEXT, DejaVu, and FlipBook > formats: Champaign County (1917), Montgomery County (1918), and Shelby > County > (1918). Among other gems they include wives' birth surnames. > > http://illinoisharvest.grainger.uiuc.edu/digitized_books.asp >

Lee, Thanks, ALWAYS, for your generous Website offerings. It's fair to say that everyone really appreciates them, and, no doubt, finds them extremely useful, if pertinent to them. I have kept a "Websites" folder in my emails going for quite sometime, JUST FOR THESE "website emails" that you have been sending for the last two or three years---at least! I have decided to make a Vertical File folder in the PPL for these Genealogical Websites that you have sent us over the years, and will print them out, and place them in this folder [the SUBJECT Vertical File for "Genealogical Websites"] in our PPL. Perhaps some one of us will eventually find a way to even ORGANIZE them after a while---States, ethnic, military, etc! ;=) Again, thanks to you, Lee, for your continued efforts to keep us all informed. And while I'm at it, can I ask if ANYONE else has some websites that they like personally, please send them to this Board. Let's share these things with each other. I feel this is one of the reason that we HAVE this Board---to share information with the members. Try making the SUBJECT of the email: "New Website/s for Filing," or something like that. C'mon, y'all, give us some of those favorite websites of yours---even the simpler ones---some of us may not know even the easy ones. And I'll start dropping them in a folder/s under "WEBSITES, Genealogical," in the PPL. Even the commercial ones, like < Footnote.com >, unless this would be "disallowed" by those in charge of our special Board [WFGS]. And, if you have other ideas like this, please let us know. Thanks. P.S. We are in serious need of more Volunteers in our Pensacola Public Library. Some of us a "walking wounded," have extended doctor appointments, chemo, etc. The time-slots for these positions are somewhat fixed, like Tuesdays 9:00AM to 12Noon, or, Fridays 12Noon to 3PM. We currently need someone to volunteer on Saturday mornings, and possibly Wednesday mornings. Plus a couple of other slots. There isn't a LOT to do, but we find little things to do like filing, tracking surnames, and mostly HELPING patrons with their OWN genealogy. The reward for helping folks is extremely satisfying, as you know. You don't have to KNOW where everything is, but we can help you feel comfortable about being there. Peggy, the civil servant there, told me that sooner or later [we hope in November] that this whole department WILL be going to the Tryone Library on 9th Ave, and we really should have a "presense" by that time---we don't want to let this opportunity get past us. Please, give us a couple of your hours a week. Or, tell us WHEN do you have some time. Talk to Ginny Deagan, Priscilla, JoAnn McKay, Evan, and the other names escape me. Thanks for listening. Evan ----- Original Message ----- From: "L.L. Scott" <[email protected]> To: "Liz Smith" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 9:03 AM Subject: [FL-WFGS] Digitized books - Illinois, etc >