Time to toot my own horn.................. Russell, Since I joined this list, one short year ago, .....I have done all the census' for each member here that needed a look-up, 1860-1870-1880. Compiled them all and sent them all out snail mail. (ask me if that wasn't a big job!!!!!) I have trotted my little self out and spoke in front of the Cemetery Care Hearings with the State Comptroller, 2 Representatives, and a Senator (Did I do good??? YOU BETCHA!!!!) I have wrote, yelled, cajoled and practically worked myself into a frenzy with my letter writting and phone calls to the Senators, Representatives, IRAD etc. for something to be done about the violations that Washington County has done in the past as far as the Freedom of Information Act. That got me the Probate Index, which is where you will find all the wills, estates, bastardys (my personal favorite), insanity's (and there were alot of them) etc. 2 weeks ago, I had film developed and scanned all the tombstone pix that are now on Wayne Hinton's Web Page for the Kinyon Cemetery. Just yesterday, Ann and I took all the pic's of Rountree Cemetery (was it cold? ........GOOD GOD YES!!!!!) Will I do more, probably...........I am going to do Taylor Cemetery for Beryl Durbin, I am also going to do poor Logan/Flannagan Cemetery (coz I like dat poke weed)......... Now.....If you want to do something I say "go for it"....."do it"..... The 1860, 1870 and the 1880 census has been transcribed. You can type 135 WPM.....Do them.....(dats a great idear) My little fingers are almost stubs....(dat's from rubbing all dem loverly tombstones)........ Well enough of that.....gotta put some bag balm on my lips.....(dey is chapped all to hell)......... Marci ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell D. James" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 11:17 PM Subject: [ILWASHIN] projects > I guess this is my night to write this wonderful list. Hope I have not > bored you thus far. :) > > I offered to take on a project today and thought I might pass the idea on > to other Washington County researchers. Here is my logic: > > 1. I type 135+ words per minute > > 2. I have some free time on my hands, a few hours each week. > > 3. St. Libory had its parish records (baptisms, marriages, deaths, burials) > transcribed by a nice lady in St. Clair County. > > 4. I have ancestral ties (and current relations) to St. Anthony's Catholic > Church > in Lively Grove. > > 5. No one has transcribed the records of St. Anthony's thus far, except my > wonderful calabash (genealogy word of the day) Ric Nold, who did the > cemetery transcriptions. > > 6. I need baptismal, confirmation, marriage, and death records for the > parish. > > Therefore, > > I will offer to transcribe, put on disk, and print a hardcopy of the > baptismal records of St. Anthony's and then when that is finished, will > offer to do the others. > > Well, folks, let's all pray that they say yes and will let me do it. > > I have adopted St. Anthony's. What will each of you adopt, individually or > in groups? > > Russell > Russell D. James > Delta, Colorado > [email protected] >