Hi Everyone, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year's holiday with your families! First, to those of you who have written to me and/or contributed Project Fulton Folk material over the last three weeks, thank you VERY much and please forgive me if I have not written back to you personally yet (I will write soon!). I am saving all the text and image files you are sending, organizing them, and preparing to post them to our website in the coming weeks. I cannot believe all the great stuff you guys have, and it is so wonderful to see you open your hearts, books, family albums, computers, etc. and share all your treasures with strangers! Our grandmothers were right when they told us that the more love we give away, the more we have, weren't they?! *** ILFulton WEBSITE NEWS: *** 1) MAP, 1875 Fulton Co., now posted at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilfulton/maps/1875FultonTownshipsMap.htm On that page you will see a scan of my whole map, plus links to these 5 township group BLOW-UPS: -Northwest part of Fulton County -Northeast -West Central -East Central -Southern Please check these zoom-in maps for close-ups of the townships; if you don't see what you need, please write to me directly with any specific requests. These are my own scans of my own original old map. 2) BIOS from the 1890 Fulton Co. BOOK (not to be confused with Joan's 1908 book!) : The Portrait and Biographical Album of Fulton County, Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago, 1890, our index page for this book is now posted at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilfulton/1890FultonBioAlbum/1890BioAlbum.htm You will see 2 links from that page: "1890 Biographies of Early Residents of Fulton County" and "Index to Portrait & Biographical Album of Fulton County, Illinois" The first link is to our page with the actual transcribed BIOS, the second link is to our page with the entire SURNAME index for the many bios in the book, not just the ones we have posted. Lyde, Carla, Karen, Marna have contributed the wonderful 1890 bio transcriptions so far, thank you guys so much! MORE 1890 book BIOS are NEEDED, so please everybody send in any that you may have to me and I'll plug them in. 3) TAZEWELL CO. ILGenWeb: Jan. 4th I was asked to take over as ILTazewell List Administrator and ILTazewell County Coordinator, so I did. That previous website had been completely lost in computer and server disasters, so they needed me to build it from scratch. I had a new ILTazewell website up and running in 3 hours, since I knew how important it was to have an ILGenWeb home for Tazewell. It's not much yet, but if you want to you can see it at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~iltazewe/ Fortunately, the Tazewell County Genealogical & Historical Society has a SUPER website up already, and I am already working closely with their webmaster to complement the content each other's website. I have installed a search engine that simultaneously searches both of the Tazewell websites, plus the Tazewell content on my own family website. I mention this to you all because Tazewell is a neighboring county to Fulton, and some of you might have research you are working on there, too, as I do. So, just let me know if you would like to join our Tazewell list and/or work on our new Tazewell website! Wishing you all the best and happiest in 2003, Alice ILFulton List Administrator and ILFulton County Coordinator