The search engine on the main Macoupin page is going again! YES!! I want to thank all the current and past submitters of data and photos to the Macoupin County ILGenWeb page. 11.5 megs of data and 5.5 megs of photos and not much frill. Photo Jeremiah CONVERSE and Lovina CORY CONVERSE. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/m_picco.htm Photo Scottville Masonic Lodge Members 1913 (lotsa familiar names in this photo) http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/m_picma.htm 1835 Steamboat routes at the Marshall County ILGenWeb site. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmarsha/old1835.jpg Selected Abstractions from The Federal Land Records http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/land-1.htm (Use your Edit pulldown and click on Find to type in a surname you are looking for) Addition of descendants of Civil War Veteran George Lair, James Miller Lair, Wm Riley Tosh (incorrect initial "A" in Wm A Tosh, should be R for Riley) http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/cw_desc.htm (You got one? Send name of veteran, your name and email address for contact) I have made note of James Lair's death date at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/burials/honork.txt should be 1904 not 1911 per descendant Linda Arnold More marriages are going up: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/marriage/groom.htm Got started on deaths - got one so far. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/death/death.htm Got any pre 1900 Macoupin deaths, send em on. Doin' the Twist is getting old. Any music requests? No heavy metal please. Veterans, (WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, other or just plain served), I have been so busy and it has been two yrs since we had the Vets page. Wow, how time flies. Got any new veterans? report in. Name, rate/rank, service branch, whadja do? where? I still have the '97 list. Gloria All volunteers need a pay increase from $0.00 to $00.00 But zero is a placeholder and not a number. Think I may be missing something....... ------------------ Gloria Frazier ILGenWeb Western Regional Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/western.htm Macoupin County ILGenWeb County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/macoupin.htm Rock Island County ILGenWeb County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilrockis/index.html FRAZIER-L maillist