Dear Elder Webb, Glad to see you are still at it. I would surely be interested in a copy of your book when finished. Would you please let us know. I am assuming this will be for public sale, is this correct? I am interested in the PB Churches of NW Saline and SW Hamilton Co's. I have heard that there were records that survived of the Old Ruff Church that was located in Tate Twp.. Have you come across these? I was sent a few names of original members, of which I believe a couple were our JONES ancestors (Elizabeth (Carner) Jones & her son Ben Jr.). This sparked my interest to wonder who the other members and minister were. Can you shed any light on this. So far I have seen nothing in the early "association" on this church... BTW... wasn't there a website for your library?? Best Regards in your endeavor Trev ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert L Webb <bwebb9@juno.com> To: <ILSALINE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, 07 November, 2000 5:53 PM Subject: Re: [ILSALINE-L] Greetings Friends, Earlier today I subscribed to this forum, so I have no knowledge of what has been or is being discussed here, and hence, if I say anything which seems to be an intrusion, please pardon me. Will just say that my Webb family came to Illinois before it was a state, and I am a sixth generation Primitive Baptist, of which four generations (myself included) have been ministers, and I have been untiringly interested in church history since age 18, and now conduct a religious library which has records of our churches all over Illinois and a dozen other states, and am writing a book on the same subject. Have just recently obtained the records of the Grand Pier church in Pope Co., and part of the records of Big Creek church which existed from 1806-1837 in what is now Hardin Co. I hope to obtain a few more records of Saline Co. PBC's. Robert Webb - Carthage, Illinois (Hancock Co) ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.