Many of the books only published "contributions" for which people paid to have their name included. :) Kind of like today's Who's Who books, I guess. Some have author names, especially the ones done by local historians, but Historic Record, Lewis Publishing, and others -- I don't think have editor's credits in them. Historic Record is still in business, in LA, last I knew. I don't know about Lewis Publishing. deb - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - deb Christensen (deb_msn@msn.com) Graphics Connection Forum http://www.computingcentral.com/topics/graphics/ ----- Original Message ----- From: <CKubly9527@aol.com> To: <GenWisconsin-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 10:16 PM Subject: [GenWisconsin] Co History Submissions > In a message dated 07/19/2000 11:34:11 PM Central Daylight Time, > mbakke@eot.com writes: > << back then biographies were written by the families and submitted for > publication in the books. >> > > Hi Margit, > > You've just answered a question I've had for a LONG time: how the material > got in the county history books. Is there somewhere I can find out more > about how these books were compiled and who (other than a company name) > compiled them? > > Best regards, > Cathy Kubly > State Coordinator, WIGenExchange > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > WIGenExchange (select desired county or record type) > http://www.genexchange.org/state.cfm?state=wi > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Help Keep Genealogy Free For Online Genealogists > http://www.genexchange.org/volunteers.cfm#cc > > > ==== GenWisconsin Mailing List ==== > >