Carla Miles and Davine Campbell are both actively transcribing newspaper articles and obits regarding Macon County. I know some on this Houston List also research in Macon County, so I wanted you to be aware of the work that is being done. Davine's obits go through the GAMACON-L list so you can either sub to it or look in the GAMACON archives to search these surnames. +++++++++++++++++++ http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ type in GAMACON and you'll see them in chronological order http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl Type in GAMACON and you can search for a surname over the various years. There are many,many in earlier years --- so be sure to take time to look there. +++++++++++++++ Carla's work covers all newspaper items and right now she's busy with the year 1894. There are lots of interesting tidbits in her work. All of her work is being listed on the Macon Archives pages: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/macon.htm and Barbara Timm's pages http://www.rootsweb.com/~gamacon2 or you could sub to: GADATA-D-request@rootsweb.com where the individual articles come through daily. You can see that lots of people are working on Macon County, and we feel that many are going to benefit from their work! (Macon came out of "original Houston Co so the two counties have lots in common) Virginia