At 09:04 AM 2/9/2000 EST, you wrote: >In a message dated 02/08/2000 10:32:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, >[email protected] writes: > >> Effingham County Past and Present book > >I apologize if this question was answered previously, >but is this an historical record of Effingham County, >a genealogical record, or combination of many issues? >Thanks, >Barbara Faig >Tennessee > > >>"UPCOMING PUBLICATION: Reprint of "Effingham County Illinois - Past and >Present". This book was originally published around 1970. ECGHS has >received a number of requests for reprints of this book and plans to have >copies available by mid-February. The reprint will be perfect soft bound >and will include 418 pages of the original book with an additional 40 page >index added. This book is a "must have" for anyone interested in Effingham >County genealogy or history. This book was written for you. It is unique in >several ways. There are as many authors as there are chapters. Each author >was chosen because of their particular interst and knowledge of their >respective chapter. Thus each chapter is presented in its own unique style. > You will read of vanished towns, abandoned cemeteries, improvements in >transportation and agriculture, growth of industry, and most importantly, >the eductional and spiritual progress of the people. All this and more, >about Effingham County from its beginnings with early trails up to the >authors' "present time" of 1968.