Whoa! I didn't even realize it had been five years! I'll be on vacation the next three weeks. Happy Holidays to all! > ---------- > From: Sue Jones[SMTP:[email protected]] > Reply To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 4:14 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ILCRAWFO] Merry Christmas > > Hi Everyone, and a Merry Christmas to all. Here's hoping you find in > 2001 that one little piece of info you need to get beyond the "brick > wall". > I'm currently working on compiling info for the Historical Society > newsletter and the genealogy society newsletter for Jan. 2001. Hope to > go to Terre Haute just after Christmas and get them printed. > In the Historical Society newsletter will appear reprints of letters > sent home from Civil War soldiers that appeared in the Robinson Argus in > 1865 and 1866. And info about the two Flat Rocks and early stories of > that Crawford Co. area. > The gen. society newsletter will have a contiuence of the old county > directory, and some old stories from the Hutsonville area. We'll have at > least two pages of queries this time, and a little bit about the '49ers > from Crawford Co. > Barbara is still hot and heavy typing the old obits that we have. > Barbara sure enjoys all of you who get back with her and tell her how > much you appreciate all her work. And that is surely a work of love! > She's a good member to have! > Rita is working on another probate for us, she's another worker that > has hot computer keys for being used so much! Slowly but surely we're > getting those old probate records all typed up and put on our shelves. > I'm hoping we'll get one or two more indices on our web page from those > probates shortly. > Dave just finished an 1867 commissioners/road book. Thanks Dave, got > your package in the mail today and it went directly to Richard with > original pages and he will proof it over the holidays. > Carla is still working on the 1860 census for the web, and she has Phil > Youngs "Honey Creek Times" that will be put on our web page. > Burl and Rena finished up Goodwine Funeral Home records and are on the > library shelf. Let's see.. we have 4 3 inch binders on the shelf with > index from that project. Oh by the way, Goodwine Funeral Home is on > line. They have current obits on line. Mr. Goodwine talked to the > society recently and I asked him if he could maintain an archive of > obits so that people can come in and check them. He said he never > thought of that but would see. I don't know what his address is on line, > but suppose you could go to Google and put in Goodwine Funeral Home and > it should come up. Try it anyway. > I'll have completed some more years on the Argus "Wanderers" etc. Hope I > will have time to get some of them sent to Jim to put on the web page. > May I say thank you to all of you who have come forward to compile > information for the genealogy society, our web page, and the library > shelves. It is appreciated! And thanks Jim for taking care of our page > so well. Let's see is this starting the 5th year? Where has the time > gone? > This has been a good year for the society, a busy year, and 2001 seems > like it will be another year of growth and busy, busy, busy. Merry > Christmas again Sue >