Hi to all the Mills County researchers, I have been away from my computer most of this summer and am just home(in St. George, UT) for a week or so before leaving for Minnesota again till about October 1st. A lot of the material which is on the USGenWeb site for Mills County was collected by me and I am anxious to get more helpful information online for Mills researchers. Margaret Hougland has done a great job of putting the information I send her on the Mills pages - I don't know how to do that. Joan DeBella is keeping the query pages going, I don't know how to do that either. How about giving me some input as to what kind of material would be helpful. Would it be more census indexing? or would it be more helpful to have the complete census record? I have easy access to the census records for 1856, 1860, 1880 and maybe others.Are all of you aware that there is a 1925 State Census available? It gives a ton of information. I don't have access to this now but might get it if enough people are interested. I would be glad to look up the complete census record for those years which are available, if you find the surname in the index and let me know year and township. Right now I have the marriage records for Mills County from January 1, 1886 to December 31, 1899. These were copied by Beverly Boileau in 1982/83 and I have her permission to put them on our web site. The people at the Glenwood Public Library have been very helpful to me as far as giving me access to many records, especially Denise Crawford, the director of the library, and Rachel Carlile, who looks up numerous requests for me. If there is anything I can do to help, please let me know. I have answered queries about Mills County from many states and even England, and I have also corresponded with a number of you who are on the mailing list. Thanks Gail Kilgore for your part in this effort. Someday maybe we will have lots of researchers using the mailing list. My ancestors in Rawles Twp., Mills County were few and far between. My grandparents, Thomas and Sarah Catherine (Riggs)Brading, my great grandfather, James Warren Riggs, and my parents are all buried in Tabor Cemetery. A great, great aunt, Elizabeth Harrison, married Richard Estes and there are Estes and Delavan distant relatives still in Mills. Another great, great aunt, Rebecca Harrison m. Evan Shelby and they lived in Lyons Twp. and probably have descendants living in the area. A great great uncle was Samuel Harrison who lived in Rawles Twp. early, before moving to the Whiting, Iowa area. When I come back home in October I hope I am flooded with requests for lookups. In addition to the census records, I have the 1985 Mills History and the cemetery book with the newer complete index. Most everything else is on the web site. I also have a cemetery book and the 1996 Fremont County History. Information I can give from all of these is somewhat limited because of copyright laws. Good hunting! Cay Merryman [email protected] http://www.rootsweb.com/~iamills