Thought that I would repost this as some of you new members signed on today and I am not sure if you got this or not. Gail ---------- > From: Cay Merryman <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [IAMILLS-L] Re:IAMILLS-L Roll Call > Date: Sunday, July 26, 1998 4:54 PM > > 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 >